Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-08-08 | Page 10 | First Death in New York Car Strike Recorded

FIRST DEATH IN NEW YORK CAR STRIKE RECORDED NEW YORK. Aug, 8 With only a few surface cars, an occasional elevated ele-vated or subway train In operation, thousands of Brooklyn residents were compelled again today to resort to busses, motor cars and trucks. Congestion Conges-tion at terminal points of the Ixinc Island railroad and the Interborough Rapid Transit line to Manhattan were jammed early with anxious thronps! when it became apparent that the third j day of the strike of Brooklyn Rapid Transit employes promised little or no1 relief. The first death as a result of the i strike occurred today on the Williams burg bridge when a pedestrian was, struck by a motor truck laden with workers A number of women In the truck fainted Traffic congestion: throughout Brooklyn was worse than on the two preeeding days and auto-: mobile mishaps were many.