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Show ' " ' TWELVE KILLED AS RESULT OF SWITCHMAN'S BLUNDER Loaded Passenger Car'e-ri'New York Elevated Railway- Leaps to the Pavement, Bringing Sorrow to Many Homes.' Now York. The death list of Monday's Mon-day's accident on tho Ninth avenue elevated railroad,, when a car crowded with early morning workers on tholr way down town pltchod hoadlong Into tho Btrect, stands at twolve. Thrco men aro in hospitals with fractured skulls. One of these, who as yot remains re-mains unidentified nt Roosevelt hospital, hospi-tal, is unconscious and not expected to live. Moro than two score of persons per-sons wcro Injured, many of them seriously. ser-iously. Tho cause of tho accident and tho lmmcdlato responsibility remain to bo ascertained. Tho motorman on the wrecked train Is a fugitive, whllo a switchman, conductor nnd four guards nro under arrest. Tho switchman Is charged with manslaughter man-slaughter and tho trainmen nro hold as witnesses. Tho motorman, oxpcctlng a clear track on tho direct lino ot tho Ninth nvcnuo, without regarding the wanting want-ing signal that tho switch was open, rushed his train nlong at a high rata of speed. Tho first car swung around tho right nnglo curvo, holding to tho rails becauso ot tho weight of tho train behind. be-hind. Then tho strain became too groat Tho couplings broke, tho second sec-ond car was whlrlod abaut almost 'end for end, nnd, to tho horror of those who looked on front below, pltchod Into tho stroet. Tho first Indication .pooplo on tho sidewalk had of tho uccldcnt was a loud rumbling along tho overhead structure. Looking up thoy aawT shower of sparks. Then followed splinters splin-ters nnd tho sound of splitting timbers. tim-bers. Suddenly tho outer guard rail of tho railroad structure gnvo way, a scoro ot bodies wero lturlod through spaco, and with a deafening crash tho car foil to tho street. For an Instant It stood fnlrly on end. Thon tho sides gavo way ua If they wero mado of pasteboard, belching out a mass of humanity. hu-manity. Those passengors who had nbt Jumped from tho platforms nnd windows win-dows boforo tho plungo canto were thrown Into a mass at tho forward end of tho car. As tho Injured men nnd women wero struggling to frco them selves tho heavy front trucks of the third cur on tho train fell almost In their midst as tho car Itself Jumped partly off tho elevated structure and was wedged against a building nt tho southeast corner ot Ninth avenuo and Fifty-third stroot. |