Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-10 | Page 2 | Motor Trains Collide on the El

motor mm COLLIDE ON THE EL Motorman Killed, Five Passengers Seriously Injured, Panic Among-Others, Among-Others, Wreck Takes Fire. NEW YORK, May 9. A rear end collision betweeh two trainy on the Third elevated railroad between be-tween Firty-slxth and Fifty-seventh Fifty-seventh streets this afternoon, killed Motorman Cornell of the rear train and seriously injured live passengers. Fire apparatus was summoned and the firemen fire-men took the Injured down on ladders. lad-ders. The accident occurred at one of tho busleBt times In the afternoon, and trafllc on elevated and surface lines was blocked. Tho trains were on the south-bound track. The first car of the rear train" smashed Il9 way three-quarters of a length through the real- car of the second sec-ond train, and the .exposed wiring set fire to the wreckage. The fire added to the panic. Passengers leaped through the shattered windows, braving the dangers ot the Third rail, and until firemen fire-men and policemen arrived intense excitement ex-citement prevailed. With such force did the rear train rain the one in front that tho cars were lifted from the tracks and then settled down with a crash. Tottering on the edge of the elevated structure two cars hung out over the side at an angle of about -15 degrees, but the couplings held and they were soon propped up by firemen. fire-men. So great was the force of the collision that . the pars could not be drawn apart, and It was necessary to chop them to pieces. When, the firemen arrived the passengers, pas-sengers, many of whom were women, were running about wildly on the elevated ele-vated structure or were struggling to get out of the cars-. Several were injured in-jured by leaping from the windows. The "arretft of the conductors of both trains and the motorman of the first train was ordered. Tho first train had been held up by repairs at Fifty-sixth street, and was at a standstill when the accident occurred. The rear train was running empty.