Show TWELVE KILLED AS RESULT OF SWITCHMANS BLUNDER Loaded Passenger Car on New York Elevated Railway Leap to the Pavement Bringing Sorrow to Many Homes Now YorkTho death list of Mondays Mon-days accident on the Ninth avenue elevated railroad when a car crowded I with early morning workers on their way down town pitched headlong Into the street stands at twelve Three men are In hospitals with fractured skulls One of these who us yet remaIns re-mains unidentified at Roosevelt hospital hospi-tal Is unconscious and not expected to live More than two score of persons per-sons were Injured many of them seriously ser-iously The cause of the accident and the immediate responsibility reranlnto be ascertained The motorman on the wrecked train Is a fugitive while a switchman conductor and four guards are under arrest The switchman Is charged with manslaughter man-slaughter and the trainmen are held as witnesses The motorman expecting a clear track on the direct line of the Ninth avenue without regarding the warning warn-ing signal that the switch was open rushed his train along at a high rate of speed The first car swung around the right angle curve holding to the rails because of the weight of the train behind be-hind Then the strain became too great The couplings broke the second sec-ond car was whirled abaut almost end for end and to the horror of those who looked on from below pitched Into the street The first Indication people on the sidewalk had of the accident was aloud a-loud rumbling along the overhead structure Looking up they saw a ehower of sparks Then followed splinters splin-ters and the sound of splitting Umbers Um-bers Suddenly the outer guard rail of the railroad structure gave way a score of bodies were hurled through space and with a deafening crash the car fell to the street For an instant It stood fairly on end Then the sides gave way as If they were made of pasteboard belching out a mass of humanity hu-manity Those passengers who had not Jumped from the platforms and windows win-dows before the plunge came were thrown Into a mass at the forward end of the car As the Injured men and women were struggling to free them elves the heavy front trucks of the bird car on the train fell almost in their midst as the car itself jumped partly off the elevated structure and was wedged against a building at the loutheast corner of Ninth avenue and Fiftythird street |