The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1902, Page 3

Th Suits Against the Railroad to Be Promptly Begun by, the Injured and the Families of the Killed. | Scarcely had the echoes of the New| was a law limiting the responstbility of And.this claimant York Central tunnel crash died away | rallro: for a death in an accident to fixe the in vee when insistent agents of New York Iaw- | $5,000. This law has been repealed a03/ whe were killed he New York in Were on thelr way to New Rochelle | the question of the amount of ree the beginning of multe for dam-| to be awarded now reste with the Jur: pertreen the injured and the relatives of There never han been any limit upon lagainst t dead the amount of money that may be] tn this city suite are niready awarded to the survivor of a railroad | jhe New York Coniral ' par vad there wreck i( he of she suntained infury. | This tole ground has been a * tient will prove Of the more than two score injured ject of th of New ¥ f ratiro men with good incomes or men in the] breay hag served eeerate (his servative estimaces put the amount | enjoyment of salaries above the average Heels: 4 ff the New Yor ave ct vs aisor init e accident came as the culmination New ‘York Central will have In some cases men were so injured that} SEO AC ERR LSet arco ante ¥ ti families of the killed and | they will be unable, upon recovery, to! Algration sould ne ' persons injure! In the collision at) follow the business or profession in unfortunate time : Others way that sum will | which they have been trained GL a § with It is not unlikely that these men will oh mises, In the }claim and collect even heavier dam is some question as which ’ vmpany [ages than will the heirs of men failroad Is reepanatile for the es tracks and rikht of wa: whe were killed, The law takes © : r - irre: nnel are owned by the New 5 Gnenulni he f wreck was remarkatie in tha: the! nigince of the earning capacity of th The “rant (0 enter the H. FRANKLIN CROSBY. nen °F) victim of « raliroad acctdent Renae # ei ra fillets Mr. Crosby was twenty yea t Munity. | Ag the acciden: happened tn this ctty m mer r Ineo 1 Railroad old, and a son of Horace Cros! \ . er incom: t is probable that the suits will be tried |" Aa train of the leasing company wae| Ol, and 4 ‘ A Be of sheir own DUNNO | here, should they come to tral There| struck by a crain of the company tat/ No, 38 Trinity PIA en oe hell f their skill as employees. | is @ possibility that the rallroad com. [OWS the tunnel. In the opinion of | tie was a clerk | an Le ‘of them had ovhers depend.) pany may settle with all claimants|q flartford officials can comotie pameay. ria Al! were in per-| without going to law. The sentiment | thelr employees took all ures foot he ¢ accident, |in New York City against corporattons | Protect the rear of their pl aby NewakCrksClyy Seaineti corporation din obedience to ar 1 it will be « for surviving | Is atrong In damage casea. employ f the = to show ne ry ine Central, the entire reaponst ta the a 1 out the UCR i I} othe accident falls upon the latter © he m Recent trials of such’ cases in Brook-|FOad) | Riivethatcinel ty ever ft tthe Brookiyn Rapid Transtt | gererdant railr we pront by tak. | dina ad wreck his city againat the Metro-|ing a charge of venue he tria's of! Rallway © ave ree| the damage is not al eeneaordinecny fave E lcounty: inthe Beale in which prejudice bs sorely arke rewards | against 1 ratiroad does not exist, even ot uncommon for persons injured though it be not so pronounced’ ae te | Jude. long since a Broo the prejudice felt here against the New York Central or in| Weatcheater County sipans 0. or In. inst the New York New Haven @ sustained in a street car acctdent Li AAR TUNNEL WRECK PARALLELED > BY THE DISASTER OF 1891 Same Weather Ccndi- tions, Same Sort of| Ce ee ee ee a ed Ti UNNEL DISASTER CBA/ARS: i . ; CHARLES B. MARS. Accident, Same State HISTORY REPEATED, :) suns 4 ¢ nowann ATR raed ments Made by the 1891 TIME. 1902 =| Mrs. Howard was the only woman unmarried. and waa chelf clerk of th Railroad Company. | 5A. Se Panton z | Ried tnstheiwreek=: She waa the wite | cigs Jin _ | L . BR AM. Jan i}e of William Howard. a manufacty father PLACE. © | who was killed! with her Lafayette tunnel accident of veat z ° . Reta ee peace ; Na] 2, NOW York Ventrai \unne! at York Centra ne : 4 ily RUECed Dn iavL te Sixth street ‘tyomtarh atreet : hele y oemest| ane : VICTIMS OF THE WRECK : sions ire almost ide : . > ‘ roa, ght morning was! } into by New Haven local Six per-| walk loca into hy White maine | ss Sekar d Mtoe % rons killed 1 Fi persons killed | ‘ WEATHER. How the Injured Are Faring Under the Care of 7 s Gloomy and foggy ci my and fogey tnt i | SIGNA Physicians in Institutions. | $ rn Warning green light, followed by Warning green light owed by 1 out from the Grand Central red danger light utomatic Kong red danger light, torpedoes exploded Report mv * tals tot 1 . . a The rear car was full of car rung after engine passed anger | under engine. lanterns hurled at cab hich v ¢ ateck were P = workmen, gotne ie oe wignal window i LAMBDIEN, MANGAMET, of Tn y en depot to clean cars ew . s 4 18 H train, in charge of Engineer | ENGINEERS’ STATEMENTS. 4 ‘ i Fowler. lef: shortly afterwart m It ran} Fowler—The signals showed clear Wiskar—I saw no green light t - Heros prsad ia shan) traininat ALS SE and [ went ahead. 1 did not near, was four minutes late and had to ‘ w Tavectignticaliniisel the automatic gong. | make up the ¢ime Ce MOLINEUN, Hoo N afay tn the investigation “which followed RAILROAD COMPANY SAID Aihams's tet | serial cates ate Engineer Fowler said the signaln—a x ‘ % " @reen or precautionary one at 1.00 feet | 2 F “The respon + ne ava r s gouth of Seventy-second street and a| @ eal y ‘4 red limbt at Seventy-second atrvet—voth | « the Mahte.! aise . " showed “clear” and he wen! ahead ° , i MERVHY, THOMAS IP. New Bi An automatic gong which should have CORONER'S JURY. ‘ welt enettai aprareieny TUNg at Seventy-second atreet when the Found by experiment that amoke " ¥ ' ‘ ° engine passed Wie danger signal did not and steam in tunnel hid light seven 2 mt > 1 key ring, according to the engineer minutes. Exonerated engineer and . 1 1 The signal operator said the green held company responsible. * { No. 47 Maid Mght waa displayed and likewise the . +a | t i Fed light and in this he was corrob- GRAND JURY. t fer i a ). orated Indicted officers and directors ? * th arms a would F The raiiroad authorities he! the en- the company. ; wa @ineer responsible, clatming he should 4 morning New have seen the lights and that he was at VERDICT. t | COFFIN, EVERETT, who was : fault in running by them. \ ~ | Woman's and ¢ n'a at wae Note the similarity in yesterday's ool. rela at 2 © | discharge He was ts - Maton, Engineer Winkar. though he hae eines olla haa GL RE Slizy Bless keane Oe 1 made no formal statement, is reputed | , 96 6000 90004 at 3 , ae saying to a friend that he did not| aos wee: yeeee Tt COeee e ye eee the precautionary signal at Sevent)-| wet and gloomy day, just much a one as ya red or danger signal at Sixty-thind . @econd stréet, but after he had run by | that on which the accident urred. | Met | ‘ bs ft he heart hie fireman call cut; While there a danger signal was seen, | green lati Geoauae TE {kt not see hel tion papi laa ! “Green. A train passed, the engine exhaling | Was four minutes late and had to make| Juries and bur He slowed hie train and when the|ciouds of steam-and smoke. BY 2 ties. Annee Ay fells CHRGR RR he . * “ red light showed he threw on the! The Jury waw the danger signal dis- . ane ; ae of PPT, Miss s Ant, slippery Fireman Fyler corroborates Engineer Wiskar in the statement that as oon as the red signal was seen the emer gency brakes were appited, but the dis tance was too #hort Manager Franklin, vision, saya: “Bo far asl can see the responsibility te on the engineer of the White lains oval. He whould have ween the iahte.” That | the company in 1x91 When signals are obscured by fo or otherwise engineers must bring ¢ ontrol_at once until ee alanis Jury Jn 1891 saw a red steam for seven min. emergency brakes, but the distance wag) appear in this cloud and for too short for him to stop the train in| minutes, by actual time of watch, th ‘ time. He explains the fact that he did| signal remained hidden’ not see the green light because steam} It was manifestly*impossible that any and smoke hid it bengineer passing within that seven min- In the collision of 1891 the Coroner's! utes could have, seen that danger jury, which went into the tunnel and| nal though !t burned brightly all carefully examined the workings of the| me. The jury took a red-lamp and found lights, exonerated the engineer on the| that it was only vielule at After feet ground that y of the at-) The jury also found that “tho monph 0, | York, New Haven and Hartford road ‘Company, through Its officers smoke, was» meer | directors, wan res: nail for the six | deaths that had ¢ the | "Later the Gran und indi ments against the officers of the cam- | panys, oat the trial, sequently held, they Condition Practically the ime condition ¢ faire prevalled In the tunnel y The green or precautionary aignal was splayed at Seventy-second street and ISTEAM WAS TO BLAME, _ MAYOR LOW BELIEVES. | GEORGE PF. 5 . wanr, k New ul of the Harlem a) na precarious condit FARLAN, JAMES E., the same statement made b The may WADLEY, simmer, can positively +]. The Coroner’ ght obscured b on were found not gullty yatusions on jit reer Hospila ALTMAN'SMANAGER = oe VICTIM OF WRECK, “iv ul WILLIAM LEYS WELL KNOWN see Of Aldermen aow haa the right ww act | IN BUSINESS CIRCLES. Me te ; “LT do not see t there ts anything! Thin right waa deft by Corpor —o t the: Mayor’can aid Mr. Low. “I tion Counsel Whalen at the request of . am not certain | have any authority to\ Mr, Guggenheimer, of the last Counsi Sewe Drinus Pld do anything. The District-Attorney and| Mayor Low Itstened attentively: Many of Mie F Board of State Rallroad Commissioners| this and made a:memorandum on a pad and Asso * . seem to be making a thorough Investt-|of paper. « | Kation.”” 1 thank you,’ said Mr Low, ; | <Then ‘he Mayor added: “I wish you} #hall have the matter looked up at would Inform me if the Injured are all} Seing cated for 1 suppose they are’all! ey at the hospitals. Mr. Low wan assured ¢ he injured were recelving the best of care. One of the newspaper men present told |© Mayor Low that under a specia: agrce-| conditt ment made prior to the granting of the F Park avenue tunnel franchise to the[,,J¢ '* Uaderstood that Mr Gils country New York and Harlem. Road back In[tif memorandum to aend to Corpok-} ot i, ation Counsel Rives, requesting » Mfr. oa the thirties, the road gave the city thelRiver to Inform him at once regarding | WbICh he was Identified ur right to order a change of motive power. the Park avenue franchise agreement. For many years he had cere are expected to trains tn om achedule Minate the tun! This jury went into INQUEST BEGINS NEXT THURSDAY. ona at noon A roartived at his ofttce | er ce with Di trict-Attorney Jerome and Commis- sioner Baker he decided to hold the | quest a week from to-day at 10 o'clock in the morning All the effe f clothing Coroner onfere Mavor Low was asked thla morning If The he was taking any cognizance of the under tunnel wreck statement was made this agreement ¢ that it sta tm of the nKIng fead and a tot to the inju L Fitty-iirst to the ¢ from station to alice oMice property after the inqu Will be held there until Included tn it a sixteen ov “xix men's hat a beaver muff and a pair of id eyexinsnon and 4 great lot of trinkets n from the dodles of wrapped in packages and or identifleation, so thet they claimed by relatives, —__- The wil anne iam | M goods electrictty “1 do not ace tbe avotd twenty B. 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