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Show Six Persons Hurt in Trolley Cer Collision Cold Weather Responsible for ri Number Num-ber of Serious Accidents. Acci-dents. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. Six persons were injured, one perhaps fatally, In a collision between a MadlBon avenue car, jiorth bound, nnd a Lexington avenue ave-nue enr, going cast, In One Hundred and Sixteenth street. Max Schnman, the most seriously hurt, was thrown into in-to the street and is still unconscious. HI3 wife suffered a broken arm. The Madison avenue car was struck squarely ln the middle and hurled from the track3. Slippery rails caused the accident. Reports by tho police and returns from the various hospitals show that scores of persons were severely Injured by falls In various sections of tho city, pwlng to water-covered Ice and hardened hard-ened snow with which the streets became be-came filled during the storm. More than twenty persons were so severely hurt theyvere removed to hospitals some of thfm with broken limbs. Traffic was paralyzed all over Greater Great-er New York. Hundreds of horses fell and many had to be shot because of their Injuries. The society which attends at-tends to these matters said It was-the worst dav for accidents that the city had known in fifteen year3. Thousands of persons experienced falls and many were Injured of whom the police have no record. At Long Acre square and Columbia circle, busy Sunday centers in the uptown up-town section, police had a busy time picking up women and carrying them lo a place of safety. Hundreds who were forced to change cars at these points alighted only to find their heels In the air and their gowns ruined. At times there were more people floundering about than there were policemen po-licemen to help them. |