| Show TWELVE ailleo US loaded passenger car on new york elevated railway leaps to the pavement bring ng sorrow to many homes new york the death list of mon days accident on the ninth avenue elevated railroad when a car crowded with early morning workers on their way down town pitched headlong into the street stands at twelve three men are in hos atals with fractured skulls one of these who as yet re mains unidentified at roosevelt hospi tal Is unconscious and not expected to live more than two score of per bously sons were injured many ot them the cause ot the accident and the immediate responsibility remain to 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 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 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 be hind then the strain became too great the couplings broke the sec ond car was whirled abacut almost end tor 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 a loud rumbling along the overhead structure looking up they saw a shower of sparks then followed aplin and the sound of splitting tim 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 tell to the street for an instant it stood fairly on end then the sides gave way as it they were made of pasteboard belching out a mass 0 hu manity those passengers who had not jumped from the platforms and 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 selves the heavy front trucks of the third car on the train fell almost in their midst as the car itself jumped partly oft the elevated structure and was wedged against a building at the southeast corner of lilath avenue and fifty third street |
