Show SUBWAY SUB PANIC IMPERILS MANY TUBE DARKENED AND FILLED W TH SMOKE AND FUMES BY SHORT SHORT- SHORT CIRCUITED CIRCUITED CABLE CADLE Two Hundred Persons Injured One Fatally Men and Women Fighting Guards and Trampling Each Other In In Frantic Struggle New York The The worst accident Inthe in inthe inthe the ten years' years history of ot New YOlks YOlk's subway occurred during the morning r rush sh i tours ours Wednesday when passengers passengers pas pas pas- In two stalled d trains were s stricken with panic in the darkened tubes by the dense smoke and acrid fumes Cumes from a short circuited cable In the ensuing struggle to escape fI persons w were re injured one onea one a. a a woman woman fatally Others were over over- omo and were rescued unconscious by 1 police and firemen while scores of others struggled to the streets unnerved unnerved un un- un nerved o or hysterical their clothing I torn and faces blackened by smoke The demands of some some of f the passengers passengers passengers pas pas- that the doors of two trains stalled in the darkness be opened were refused by the guards it was said Fights ensued and there was soon in progress on both trains a desperate struggle to get out Windows were smashed by the score men and women trampled each other and tore each others other's clothes in unreasoning fear Policemen and firemen were busy more than three hours In rescue won wor work They They found abandoned In the two trains many passengers mostly women women wo woo wo- wo men half haIt asphyxiated by smoke Oth Oth- had collapsed on the fi floor or of the tube Some were brought up by ladders lad lad- ders dens through manholes some through ventilating apertures In Ia the street t ordinarily or or- covered with steel grating |