Show ivi ant ARE HURT IN suhwa PANIC NEW YORK IS 18 SCENE OF MAO MAD RUSH WHEN SCORES ARE TRAMPLED ON electric lampe lamp explode causing in jury to many passengers gera guards bar door when smoke adds to confusion Conf irlon now york at least seventy five persons were injured two of them probably fatally in a mad panic which swept a crowded east cast aide subway train as it was about to leave the grand central terminal station A blown fuse followed by a series ot of electric lamp belp explosions was waa reported to have been the cause of the accident the train literally jammed with humanity came to a sharp stop a block from the terminal men women and children massed into every one of the cars were swept irom from their feet in contusion confusion which grew to panic proportions when the cars began to fill with stifling smoke caused by burning insulation A abort circuit had occurred causing the motorman to halt the long string of cars when he be attempted to start up tip again every light bulb in the train exploded this was the signal for the panic which sent screaming fighting men women and children sur surging gingi toward exits and seeking to to escape from their cag ellke imprisonment by smashing windows scores were knocked to the car floors and trampled the contusion confusion was wag added when guards prevented opening of emergency doors the lounge and several salons of the nearby hotel vanderbilt were converted into emergency hospitals where twenty five fiva persons persona received treatment thirty others were removed to bellevue Dell evue hospital the last serious subway mishap of ii a similar nature on the east side aide subway december IG 1923 when persons persona were injured in a panic which started with it a tire fire which sent choking gases through tho the cars it later developed that forty ono one persons received treatment in the vanderbilt hotel the entire personnel of the vanderbilt went into service carrying the injured to lounges salons and into the dining room when policeman george deno arrived at the thirty fourth street subway exits he saw burly men knocking halt half hysterical women aside in their mad plunges for freedom ile ho tore oft off his uniform coast and eudea into tile the crowd knocking own lown i five of the men he be had seen jostling women |