New Britain herald., 1925-02-09
Obscuring Mists Also Tie Up Harbor Ship. ping And Ocean Lin. CTS Postpone Their Departures.
Similar Conditions Exist All Along Atlantic Coast and Norfolk Ferryboats Collide in Mid-Stream.

New. York, Feb. 9.-Two men were killed and more than 50 per- sons were hurt In a series of col lisions on New York's transit lines today, while one of the heaviest fogs in recent years enveloped the city.
 Harbor and river traffic was virtu- ally stopped as results of the lower ing fog that clung close to the sur face of the water. The fog was re- ported general, extending along most of the Atlantic seaboard and affect ing shipping over wide area.
 Elevated Hits Subway
 Early reports indicated that the most serious of the series of acciI dents on the city's transit lines oc. cured in the Bronx where an ele- vated train smashed into the rear of a subway train on the elevated structure. Two were known to have been killed in this collision, while the estimate of injured ran well above forty.
 Women Trampied
 Several women were reported to have been knocked to the floor and trampled when panic seized the crowd in car on the forward train in the Corona line collision. This was believed due to report that the car had caught afire. Train guards quickly stilled the fears of the | crowds.
 Two Brooklyn Crashes There, we're two accidents in Brooklyn suburbs. Two trains of the 1 Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Co. of ! the Fulton street line came together in a rear-end collision. inflicting in- , juries to a dozen men and women. On the Corona line, near Long Island city a steel train of the l. R. T. smashed into the rear of a wooden train of the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Co.,, injurying half dozen persons. It is estimated that these two wrecks affected fully 10000 commuters as traffic on both lines was tied up for hours.
 Street Car Accident 1 A surface car accident added to l the general confusion. Four persons 1 were injured when two cars came together due to slippery rails.
 The fog was reported one of the worst in the city's history and was caused, according to the weather bureau, by a peculiar combination due to the temperature change from cold to conn mparatively warm, the snow blanket still covering the ] ground and the absence of wind. The result was a dense low fog that cluns murkily to the earth's surface.
 Fire in Subway
 A subway fire in which a dozen people received slight injuries added to the perpIcXitics ot the transit of icia)s. An express train bound for Upper Manhattan was stalled over some blazing ties in the tunne! on the Manhattan side of the East [ river. It was only through the ef- forts of the train crew that a seri- ous panic was ayerted aboard the crowded train. Tho ties were be- Iicvcd 10 have been set alire by blaz- Ing rubbish.
 Ferry boats with their thousands Of commuters from New Jersey, staten Island and Brooklyn, barely crept through the fog and were from 70 minutes 10 an hour late. Two Now lcrsov-Alanhattan lines were forced to discontinue operations carly in Inc day.
 prirt Down River
 Traffic in tho East rlyer further was dcuor7'iar1 whom 2 number of heavy coal rargos broke from their moorlng at H Bronx wharf and started on fog hidden drift down rna rryer. T1e 0ro department finally racaptured them.
 loue Island trat1ic was tied up uhcn pilots refused 10 attempt the troach rous IIl Gate waters in the ,or. Three night boats from Fall River Mass, and Providence, R. L. the Tennessee. the Providence anA inc Cambridge. anchored off Long ls.a0l 10 await clearer weather
 Liners Held Up
 Trn Atlau'o liners, due 'o dock tod7v with tAousauas of passengers from abroad. were held in the lower nsrbor for hours, their pilots fearing +o srelnrt navigation of the upper r,rpor These included the White Star liner Celtic. the santa Luiss, rst in from South America, the Omo. from Hamburg; w c. Garvis. rom south America; the Minne- wasl,a, from Cl,rbourE; peutsch- land. from Hamburg; the Stock holm. from Gothrrnburg; the Cum ardcr Caroria, from Liverpool and the Fort Victoria. from Bermuda
 The weather bureau predicted that the fog would lift early this after noon.
 Those Killed in inc Bronx accident were Frank Akcrstrom, motorman of ono of the colidiug trains, and Giles Wanamaker, an attendant in the court of general sessions. Wana-
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