New Britain herald., 1926-01-18
.34 PERSONS HURT IN N. '. CAR CRASH Fog and Wet Rails Cause ACCi,
 dent on Williamsburg Bridge MOTORMAN IS ARRESTED
Twenty Injured Removed to Hos pital-Woman Victim Praises Men For Their Chiyalry-Unidcntified Child in Critical Condition.

New York, Jan. IS LP-Thirty- four persons were injured today in . collision between two Brooklyn Manhattan trains on the Williams burg bridge in q heavy fog. Twenty injured were removed to hospitals.
 The accident was said to have been due to the fog and slippery rails.
 Crashes Stalled Train
 Both trains were of the elevated division Of the company. An eight car steel train of the Myrtle avenue Metropolitan line bound for Manhat- 1 tan, had gone to the center of the bridge where 1t became stalled. Shortly after another train of wood- cn, reinforced steel cars of the Broadway line followed and crashed into the rear of the stalled train. None of the passengers Of the latter was injured.
 The first car of the wooden train was ripped apart and the second car telescoped into the first.
 Reserves Called Out
 Bridge police summoned am bulance5 from several hospitals and pressed into service passing automo. piles to remove the injured. A crowd of several thousand gathered at the Clinton street police station on the Manhattan side of the bridge seek inp information and roSarveo ,,,ara called to preserve order. First po- lice reports said two or more per- sons had been killed.
 John Simmer, motorman of the wooden car train, was arrested charged with felonious assault. Later he vas removed to Bellevue hos. pital suffering from shock and in jurics.
 Cars Were Crowded
 Passengers of the train whicI caused the crash, declared that tn, cars were crowded to the doors some of the cars were so damned they said, that the doors of some cars had not been opened at the Mercy avenue station. Brooklyn, the last stop before going upon the bridge. All of the injured were resi-. dents of Brooklyn.
 While there was considerable con. fusion and screaming by hysterica women, the police and firemer { quickly succeeded in restoring order MOtorman Objected
 Irving Butler, a passenger on tn, first car of the wooden train, told tn, police of another passenger who hat , squeezed through the front platform door at the Mercy avenue station v Motorman Simmer objected, sai,
 Butler, and there was some argl
 lnent as the train proceeded over tn A bridge. The police are Investigating
 Buffers story.
 Motorman Simmer said that Il ', was driving at a speed Of six O seven miles an hour when the cras " occurred. The rails were slippery h he said, the brakes of his woodc
 train were faulty, and he was un f able to avoid the collision. H il crawled through a window and as Q sisted some of the passengers out c =, the car.
 Il Girl Praises Men il Miss May Rose, who suffered Ir a juries to her legs, said: The me l. were just wonderful. After the cras n they acted like trained soldiers. V was pulled out Of the crowd on to ,- of men and carried across the track ,- There were some women screamin If inside the car. but the men near III ,- were calm and collected" n A pathetic victim of the accider If was an unidentified five year old gi r. who was taken to St. Catherine al hospital, Brooklyn The hospital 0 d ticials reported that the child had To fractured skull and was in a critic , condition.