Ogden Sun | 1905-09-12 | Page 1 | Many Were Killed on Elevated Road

MANY WE car k crowded with passengers jumped the track and fell to the street landing upside down one mans mead cut off new york sept 11 ten persona berc killed and more than forty injured when the second car of a ninth avenue elevated train jumped the track and fell from the structure to the street at the junction of the sixth and ninth avenue lines at fifty third today the car the seats aisles abid street and ninth avenue at 7 a m platforms of which were thickly packed with humanity was turned bottom side up its roof torn off and it was stood on enden the street the heavy truck of the car fell upon it crushing the passengers the train was a southbound ninth avenue and should have continued on the straight track instead of being switched to the curve by which sixth avenue trains proceed on street from ninth avenue io sixth avenue A sixth ave nue train bad just passed and the switch lever was open owing to this open switch the first cai of the ninth avenue train took the switch just barely staying on the rail and turned into fifty third street instead of going down ninth avenue the switchman it Is alleged when he saw his blunder turned the switch back again as it to send the train on the straight track down ninth ave As soon as this was done the train was wrecked the second car was thrown off the track it fell street turning completely over and landing upside down the fourth car and fifth car also left the rails but did not tall to the street the fourth car struck with terrific borce against the landings at the southwest corner of ninth avenue and rested against the fire escape this building IB occupied in pare by a mrs crowe whose family waa at breakfast the passengers in the fourth and fifth cars were able to save themselves and to get to the street in safety by climb ing through the window of mrs browes crowes apartment from the fire cs cape against which the fourth car rested policeman edward moran who was standing the structure when the accident happened leaped when he heard the crash overhead and escaped death 1 I i turned around ind saw the car coming to the street he said it tell with a crash on its forward end the bottom cracked and tha sides shivered and opened out tho people were jammed forward holding to the straps and mixed up together when the side broke out they were scattered all over the street these were the lucky onea those who could not get out the worst injured 1 I saw there was awful work ahead 0 I 1 ran to floyt first street and turned in an alarm then 1 sent in a call for all the ambulances ard asked tor police reserves As I 1 ran back I 1 called for help from wagon of all sorts when I 1 got back the street was strewn with injured people we lifted thorn into grocery wagon trucks anything handy and hurried them to roosevelt hospital many of them were women they had fainted and it looked as if nearly all were dead when the firemen came they began dragging people out cf the car the further down they got info the mass ot humanity the slower the work became and th e more serious were the wounds of those rescued finally axes had to be used to get ane people from under tho wreck at this stage they began to pull out the dead the excitement among those in the derailed cars on the as they realized what had happened became intense in the forward car the men deem ing the motorman was responsible tor tho wreck attacked him and tried to beat him he was dragged from his seat but shouted for fair play and convinced the crowd that it was the switchman and not is that was responsible coroner scholer who as early on the scene says that the dead will be at leat ten or more ane injured will number 25 to 30 coroner scholer has caused tho arrest of J W johnson the conductor of the train timothy J M mcdavitt W L berry and D dark the four guards motorman motor man paul kelley address unknown and C A jackinson Jackl the switchman on duty at card street and ninth avenue have disappeared the police say and cannot bo found coroner scholer held an impromptu inquiry into the cause of the wreck as soon as he could get the train crew into a drug store nearby during the co rovers preliminary examination conductor J W johnson said codoner Co yoner you can go up on the elevated road at street and ninth avenue and see tor yourself you that the signal is adlow and green whitish means that the southbound ninth avenue train hag the right of way and a clear track W C johnson 0 passenger on he train said of tho wreck 1 I was sitting in the second car of the train reading a paper when all of a sudden the lights went out and every one was thrown to one side the next ahng I 1 knew I 1 was thrown out of the door and landed in the street striking against a woman this probably saved my life eight bodies of those killed in the wreck were taken to the street police station and laid out in a row an the floor on the back room M fast i as persons who could convince the po lice that thy could make positive identifications reached the station house they were admitted As the news spread the crowd la front of the station house increased until there was danger of a fatal colli on and extra police were ordered out from adjacent precincts to assist in clearing the streets solomon augast was sitting at the front end of the car which jumped into the street when a sharp piece of board or metal severed bis head from bis body as though done with an axe the head was found on the tracks several yards away 1 I am satisfied that the whole accident was due to the neglect of the switchman said coroner scholer in the first place he made a mistake in turning the ninth avenue train into street and then added to his blunder by turning the switch back again in an attempt to divert the train into ninth avenue again the last mistake caused the terrible accident and loss of life jos bach policeman died of in jurres after having been taken to roosevelt hospital the identified dead are E P new york J H hausbach Hau a member of the new york board of trade S negro employed by the mutual chemical company of jersey city john morris a negro address unknown cornelius mccarty laborer address unknown william lees electrician at rockaway beach john cochrane address unknown many persons were badly hurt among them are seymour rowe a bookkeeper fractured skull charles dobson scalp wounds injured back rose olmstead setup wounds contusions of body and shock henry atkins a policeman parc pt the falling car struck him his skull is fractured and he suffered injuries to cheat and body unidentified man about 35 years unconscious fractured skull barbara grell 28 years W U telegraph operator suffering from shock joseph back policeman badly crushed elizabeth minar newark leg crushed so that amputation was necessary will die patrick J gilligan west bath street side crushed in lincoln eckstein Eck legs crushed bridget mcmahon internal injuries and injuries to the head william T Nieu buer skull fractured one of the incidents of the disaster was the jump of james bowen from a window of the third car as it fell from the elevated structure into the street he landed in the street clear of the car but head foremost aud suffered a fracture of the skull cornelius A jackinson Jackl the new switchman who was blamed for causing the disaster was arrested at his home in west street he said that he had set the switch right general manager hedler of the inter borough rapid transit company explained the accident as follows the wrecked train was a ninth avenue train southbound the signals in the switch tower were set for the opening track for the sixth avenue southbound the train went down ninth avenue at a rapid pace and struck the switch the curve at this point is not banked the train took he switch at a rapid sed the first car held the rails simply through the weight of the cars behind the strain was so great that when half around tho curve the coupling brahe between the first aind second cars and the cars jumped the rails there was nothing left to guide the second car and it kept on in a straight line without turning and went over the side of the structure falling to the ground directly in front of the south east corner of fifty third street and ninth avenue it was a physical impossibility lity for the switchman to have turned tho switch while the train was moving rapidly over it statements to that effect are absolutely incorrect NELSONS PROFITS ft champion made and britt got san francisco sept H on account of some clerical error it was stated the receipts ot the contest were corrected figures show that nelson beltt and the club divided this means for tho fight ers and for the club 0 the nelson got and britt added to the winners share Is he got for his interest inthe moving pictures which belsons nelsons Nel sons profits up to POOR FIDO PERISHED portland sept 11 twenty five lead hunting Igor rotes from the wilds of the island of luzon partook 0 a dog aupper the first day after their arrival at the lewis and dark exposition last week the savages were hungry or dog having been traveling by land and latec for nearly two months without having the opportunity of cooking and eating a single fido when they arrived at their village near ehfe trail on the exposition grounds they got out their and enjoyed a dance in celebration of their safe arrival then the big chiefs began looking abbout for a dog after some difficulty a small cur was captured and turned over to the Igor rotes who slaughtered the animal in the presence of a large crowd cut the carcass up and boiled it in a big pot near by another pot containing rice was sizzling over the ali and when the was leady large bunks of dog and bountiful bunches of rice were served to each man the seven aomen in the party were not permitted to eat ot the dog as the ig do not consider their women sufficiently brave to of that favorite morsel the men eat dog because they like it and also because they believe that it makes them branc not been for hi prompt rescue by a policeman the natii might havo been beaten to death A woman who entered the car with her husband her brother and another man was just about to take a seat when brown made a rush at it the comans womans husband R protested brown drew an ice pick and stabbed him through both bands then he attacked tho other two men and plunged tho pick into their bodies A panic ensued among the crowd aboard the car and when brown leaped off swinging the weapon over his head ho was followed by several hundred persons after running a block he was tripped and lumped upon by tho mob who trampled him into the cob ble two policemen arrived in the nick of time they ordered the mob to desist bu were met with a refusal and only succeeded in rescuing brown by drawing their revolvers and holding the crowd la check until a reserve force arrived