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Show CARS JUMP TRACK IN NEW YORK TUJJIEL Mishap Result of Green Driver Running at Excessive Ex-cessive Speed, Police Commissioner Says. ' Vehicles Burst Into Flames After Smash, Adding Terror and Peril to the Scene. NEW YORK, Nov. 1. Eighty-five bodies had been taken late tonight from what is known as the Malbone Street "tunnel," on the Brighton Beach line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, where a five-car train running at high speed jumped the track on a curve and struck the sidewalk with such terrific force that the first car was demolished and the others "buckled" until they were jammed against the roof of the tunnel. The train which carried nearly 000 passengers, pas-sengers, was in charge of a "green" mo-torman. mo-torman. Rescue workers declared they believed more bodies were buried under the wreckage wreck-age and that the death list of men, women and children might reach 1"0. Probably twice that many were injured, many of them seriously. SAY SMASH DUE TO RECKLESSNESS. District Attorney Lewis of Kings county, declared the accident was due to recklessness on the part of the motorman, who had been employed as a train dispatcher dis-patcher and was pressed Into service because be-cause of the strike which went into ef- feet today after the company had refused to reinstate twenty-nine discharged union employees. "The motorman is gone," Mr. Lewis said. "The claim adjusting department appears to hove kidnaped him." Police Commissioner Knrlght echoed the assertion of Mr. Lewis. "The accident appears to have been the result of a green motorman running; his train at an excessive rate of speed. The police now are searching for this man." Mr. Lewis said warrants would be issued is-sued for the arrest of all officials of the corporation who could be held responsible for the disaster. An investigation of the wreck was in progress late tonight at the offices of the public service commission. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit company had made no statement concerning the wreck, and four hours after it occurred ignorance was professed of exactly what had happened. hap-pened. TRAIN PACKED WITH PEOPLE GOING HOME. The wrecked train was packed to the gates with home-going men, women and children. Service on the company's lines was materially reduced because of the strike and every train which left the Brooklyn bridge was literally jammed by tho thousands of delay el residents of Brooklyn, who almost fought to get aboard. Hours after the accident it was difficult diffi-cult to determine exactly how it happened. hap-pened. The crash came in a dark tunnel, and the hysterical survivors wcro unable lo give a coin-rent account or their experiences. experi-ences. Many of them insisted that a second train had ploughed into the rear of the one which had carried them, tend this was the theory of Idstrlct Attorney Lewis until he , had carefully sifted the evidence at his command. lie finally determined, however, that only one train was involved. PLUNGED INTO THE CONCRETE SIDEWALL. Mr. Lewis and the police asserted that the ti ain was running fully forty miles sn hour, when it took the curve and plunged into the concrete Hide wall of the tunnel. It was difficult for them to believe be-lieve at first, they said, that there could have been such heavy loss of live, unless two trains had been involved. The tunnel tun-nel wax completed only recently, and It was nectared tha I only a motorman fn millar with the line could have negotiated thr curve safely even at moderate speed. When the first car jumped the track it side-swiped the west wall and ran along the ties for nearly one hundred feet. (Continued on Pac Four.) dS JUMP TRUCK I IB! YORK TIME 'Continued from Page One.) The cars behind crashed through it, then buckled .against the roof and fell. The injured and dead were carried up Ladders taken from fire apparatus. .Charred bodies were placed in burlap bags to shroud them from the gaze of the thousands of persons who gathered within a few minutes after the collision. Policemen and firemen were mobbed by frenzied men and women, who feared the burdens, they carried might be members of their families. Hundreds of reserves formed a cordon around the "tunnel" and kept back the great throng from the long line of ambulances which came clanging from every direction. More than 100 members of the Women's Motor Corps of America responded with their cars to the calls for help. All kinds of vehicles were pressed into service to carry the dead and injured to hospitals and morgues. Twenty-five bodies had been received at the King's county morgue at 10 o'clock. Survivors, of the crash crawled from the wreckage and ran through the tunnel, tun-nel, screaming and weeping, unmindful of the danger from the live third rails I which bordered the tracks. Their cries ! quickly brought aid from persons living j m the neighborhood, who gave what as-i as-i sistance they could until police and firemen fire-men arrived. Tunnel a Shambles. The gloomy tunnel was quickly converted con-verted into a shambles. The wreckage burst into flames, increasing the indescribable inde-scribable panic among the passengers. ! Almost every passenger in the first car was kJled or injured. Many of those j unable to drag themselves free of the wreckage are believed to have been 1 burned to death. Dozens of the bodies removed were charred beyond recognition and only a few of them have been identified iden-tified late tonight. The walls of the cars were crushed in as the train side-swiped side-swiped the tunnel wall and many of the passengers were ground to death against the concrete. Frantic survivors scrambled madly to cliinb up the side walls of the cut on either side of the tunnel. Their screams, and shrieks of the injured, brought hundreds hun-dreds of persons living in the vicinity to their aid. but organized rescue work was not possible until the arrival of police reserves and firemen, who lowered ladders lad-ders to them. Stretchers from the scores of ambulances which responded to hurried calls for help were lowered into the cut and the injured lashed to them so they could be taken out. -The bodies were taken to the Snyder avenue police station until there was no more room for them there, and then the platform of the Prospect Park station, a block below the wreck, was used as a temporary morgue. Besieged the Morgue. It was not until hours afterward, when mothers and fathers, wives and husbands became alarmed at the absence of their loved ones and learned of the wreck, that they besieged the morgue. Women screamed and faulted when they came upon the bodies they hoped they would not find, and It was necessary to establish, a temporary hospital to care for those overcome by grief. The rescuers who arrived first found women and gittls with their arms around each other pinned beneath broken seats. Jn the first car passengers were crushed against the roof. Some of them had been pierced with splinters of wood, while others had been mortally wminded by hroken glass. In the heart of th Wreckage, Wreck-age, under tons of debris, even the police and firemen were aghast at the carnage they came upon. Almost every body was mutilated beyond recognition. Went Into Tunnel. Members of the Women's Motor Corps of America, who responded with their can to calls for help, went into the tunnel to oomfort and succor men, women and children who were alive and con-flcious con-flcious but plhnod down by the wreckage' so they could not; her removed. Many of the passengers died in the arms of the young women who bad come to aid them. Passengers declared the train wns run at terrific speed all the way to the tunnel after Brooklyn bridge had been passed. Women and children were frightened and Vowefi thf would get out, but the crush I in the train was so great they could not ; reach the doors. Most Of them declared j the motorman. who is being sotuthi by j the police, must have Mid with his life the penalty fr his reckless speed. President Williams of the Lb ookh u Kapid Transit' denied late tonight j the niotoinian in charge of the train was h "green" hand. lie declared he was a motor switchman, whose duty it had t'cr-n ; to run trains In and out of yards, and thai be must have been familiar with I (heir operation. Hfl did not deny that he j had taken the place of a Btrlkefi but i insisted that he WAS not a train dls- patcher. |