New Britain herald., 1923-05-02
S5 INJURED AS CAR
 CRASHES ON BRIDGE
Trolley Runs Wild on Brooklyn
 Span-,Hits Pole

New York May 2.--Thirty-six per. sons were injured late yesterday after. noon when runaway trolley car Of | the Three Cent Line over Manhattan Bridge jumped the track of tho "s'' l curve near Nassau street at the Brooklyn end of the bridge. The ves- tibulc of the care was demolished and great holes ripped In both sides as II bumped and rocked and swayed for more than 500 feet over the cobble- stones of Flatbush Avenue Extension. finally crashing into an iron pole and coming to n stop in front of the Technical High School at Concord street.
 All of the injured were sent to the Cumberland street and Holy Family hospitals. where N was said last night two might die. These are the motor man. Daniel Calvin, 1s4 Washington avenue, Brooklyn, who received q fractured skull and internal injuries when he was hurled from the front platform of the car, and William Pray 422 Seventh avenue. Brooklyn, a pro- bationary policeman on his way from the public school in Manhattan. who was hurt internally. The condition of four others was said to be critical. They are:
 De Ambrosio, Antonio, IS, Navy street, Brooklyn. internal injuries.
 Foote, Charles, 53, of 100 Foote place, possible fracture of the skull.
 Gordani, Peter, IA, 219 York street. injuries to both legs.
 Grosiano, Joseph. 55, of 254 Mas sau street, arms and legs badly cut.
 Eighty Passengers Trapped
 Eight others remained in the hos pitals for further treatment, while the remainder of the injured went home.
 There were eighty passengers in the car when the brakes failed to work, and it went at high speed into the s turn. The car was closed front and rear, and no one could get out until collisions with trolley poles had rip ped holes in the sides and in the front and back platforms.
 The conductor William McFee, 2S9 Jay street, Brooklyn, was hurled from the back platform after part of it had been demolished, about the same time that aIotorman Calvin was thrown off the front platform.
 Patrolman Robert Rogerson of the Poplar street station was on traffic duty at the bridge when the wreck occurred. He saw the car coming down the incline toward the s curve where cars turn into the Flatbush avenue extension. and he and others saw that Calvin was working desper- ately with the brakes, trying to stop the car before it got to Nassau street.
 For an instant the car slackened | speed there, but then gathered mo- mentum again and came sweeping around the turn. There was then no ] way that Calvin could stop 1t, be- cause the car was equipped with air brakes only and had no emergency hand brake. The police said that the operating machinery was so badly wrecked 1t could not be told if 1t was out of order, but from the evidence of witness they believe that the brakes did not work.
 Breaks Through Poles
 The trolley car took the first turn
  and swayed so alarmingly that the crowded so close to- yether in the car that when one moved the whole crowd had to move, began to shout and scream.
 At the second turn of the s curve he car jumped the tracks, turned al- most in a semi-circle and cut diagon- lily across the Extension.
 Ten feet away was 8 hollow iron pole to hold up feed and trolley wires, This the car snapped at its base, As t went down the pole ripped great ,ole In the left side of the trolley. Bits of broken glass from the win lows and splintered timbers and ,ieces of steel went hurting into the rowded passengers, cutting and cruising many. l The car then continued across the { orthbound tracks of the Three Cent (