Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-24 | Page 5 | Twenty Persons Injured

TWENTY PERSONS INJURED Crowded Trains on Terminal Road Collide at Coney Island. NEW YORK. Aug. 23. Twenty poraons were Injured, some of them very seriously, in a collision between two trains in ono of tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit terminals it Conoy Island early today. The injured wero hastily removed to the reception hosnltal, and after their wounds hAd been 5S most of them wero able to go h Tho wreck wns caused by a train entering enter-ing the terminal and friklng a crowded one about to leavo for tho city. Windows were broken, tho first car was partly smashed and tho overhead wires w-ero broken Falling wires comLng In contact wUh tho tracks sent up thick masses of sparks and there was a wild panic among to Passengers during which many women were trampled under foot.