The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1905, Page 4

: THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, GEFTEMBER 11, 1903) * SURVIVORS TELL ee ESCAPES. SCENE ON THE “L’’ STRUCTURE AT FIFTY-THIRD STREET AFTER THE WRECK (Photographed Especially for The Evening World by Staff Artist Curtis.) 4s e aoe S i \ Passengers Describe Their Sensations as a They Were Hurled Through Space in Car and Buried in Wreckage--- Policeman Had Close Call. To live to tell the story of being hurled through space in a whirling] “L" car, going down in a crash to the stroet, and then being caught in a ‘. mass of wreckage, miraculous. After they had been resected rnd their injuries attended by the hospital doctors a number of the survivors re- counted their thrilling experience to reporters of The Evening Wo: Prebably the most sti and circumstantial is that of Charies B. Garri- 18 son, one of the first of the victims taken from the wreck. His statement. d Ninth avenue one, left Fifty-ninth street fifth street the motorman slowed down. I » about 7.30 o'c , was in the second car. Then, after he slowed down, he went ahead suddenly, and the first ear turned down Fifty-third str I thought I had made a mistake and got on ixth avenue train, The next instant just what happened is| not clear. y ft oceurred 1 don't know, unless the man in the signal| tower ud made a mistake and threw back the switch. TURNED COMPLETELY OVER, The car 1 was in left the track bruke away from the first one and we went over into the streate In leaving the structure we were running at a \ good rate of §: and we ‘ned completely over, We were first shot forward and then piled in the front of the car in a mai Ever ‘at was filled, and there were about twenty-five persons, maybe more, standing up. The car was crowded, but not packed, As we went forward we were dropped into the forward car, I will never forget the sensation nor the horror of the situation, It was only an instant, but I presume it was something like a man going through a death trap. People in the rear seats were thrown out and dropped the length ot 4 the car, and as we dropped the car turned over so that we were whirled *\ about. Ny SEEMED TORN TO PIECES, thing in sight, and me the car seemed to be rent in a hundred pieces. It was as though ey it was hit with a ton of weight or blown up by something. I know now it was the striking of the ground thet sp'intered It. “While we were coming to our senses thase that were not knocked DIAGRAM OF “I’’ WRECK SHOWING HOW ACCIDENT OCCURRED. WOMAN TELLS OF 3 senseless made efforts to get out of the windo' ‘The car was upside down Tie =f z i and the heavy trucks were on the ceiling. ate vas Sias : a Wan “ The next instant, it w (in an instant for that matter, the forward The motor car went safely around the curve, but the second car wrenched itself frec and shot In a southeasterly direction, with the four cers behind it, The second car fell to the strect, the third car got HORROR AND HEROES off far enough to drop its forward trucks on top of the second car, while the fourth and fifth cars did not truck of the second car that had followed ours half way over the structure leave the structure at all. t the { Men and boys and women grabbed at ev cropped off und the heavy trucks came through the car we were In like it was paper. I think this is what killed most of those who were killed outright. CRAWLED THROUGH WINDOW. I was forced upward and half way throush a window. A man from the car barns a half block away had reached us. He gave me his hand and I climled gut, and found that, while I was shaken up, I was able to 4 move about ‘The screams of those inside were something terrible. I got my breath and had to lie back before 1 was able to give any hand at the work of rescue. - The firemen came and the work of rescue began. They first took out four dead bodies and then pulled from the car a dozen or more persons “Hell Could Preseat No More Horrifying Sight,” Says Mrs, Crowe, Into Whose Home Car Crashed—Negro Saves Girl==-Doctor Busy Under Wreck. ‘8. James gr who had been injured by the falling truck.” Niithinwenne down ad VL These Fell Through . 1 arrived ts | \| iI Ui il}fiti e trom the "Ls nmguhince surgeons Roof of the Car. an Raytin meric! tolls a thrill passed taroug, wie. women didn't seem to be badly hurt, SEC = Mrs. Crowe live ie Delong lone man but tha mag was in bud shape.” = Rae his lif Young Woman Fell Through Open Window. | Barbara Grell, of No. 548 East One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street, had with, Bentt ein the wreek. She avith, Beato | Owes her escape to an Open wingow. » Was sliting “on! the ent I saw ons of pick up. to his |and one on Ninth With her thr ten; Joseph, nine she was asleep in her rc crash came. Her Troe. Lebving Be can and 5 dition to than jury and perh “T way sitit fn the second ca “Both of us were readting, 1 was inier- | nvercome by the ex- y at her home In the Mrs. Cr perience, and Is hands of a phys! gyiseTCLOVERB Ray, CONDENSEDMILK | | Purest product in concentrated the bullding was in : hy pap d had no idea , shout just where Murat over," sald from her bed. cried * ‘ Siena i anion Guin rushed to save her th That Lrdluntecmeern niet she heard a second crn as U h_ the way to the street r va onscious, T was ld fall ninu Some of It - > "ae + sengers be window frum the Like Crazed Beings. “Most of those who came throws through, too. full, but two men ran up and pulled We landed In the st MN out of the way in tme. car, ca ° Should sav tha: ther re forty bho Mrs, Crowe. “But | m of cow’s milk. Sterili: SAE Canelit: te | on forty-five Dassengerd In the ear. aie. (Continued from First Page.) "IF" few women, and they were | form of cow’s milk terilized moment before it. began to slide down |{ine argund me were seven or elgit girls Sa treated brutally by en, wao acted |) and absolutely pure. It is guar- barare AE Hema tO eee |from' Harlem. who. rhe dow: hi Se aineee | sey PUES ties Ta Pentre, war stunned: ut Jegrabned ({ain every marning. “r'da not know | BLOCK, J., No, 2858 Eighth avenue; infuries slight, ‘they thrunt the anteed to keep sweet in any tem- dim and pulled him with ine.” We were |Gne another when the car turned cvee BROWN, J. T., No. 122 West Ninety-ninth street; broken nose and reahed through tho. x9 perature or climate, The trade- ; ain masie mised . ceion that just [Ae them. T think T'was the mat eng | other injurtes to face; Roosevelt Hospital. Bpnarently no (hougne for ives. || marks are valuable; save them 7 a before the a nt persons in the car @rop from the BUTLER, WILLIAM, of No. 44 West Ninety-ninth street; fractured ‘ ,FMere must have been Afty or sixty 1! and write for a list of free pre- pagan LOL eane e an < SS skull; Roosevelt Hospital; will die. — 1° Just ins ty ‘windows Thad “11 miums. forn ae oet Bela BEATTIE, WILLIAM, Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Seven-|tusions and shock; sent home. [large cabling ee ee TREE Re ARR ea ne ot oF | teenth strect; badly crushed; Roosevelt Hospital. OSBORNE, JENNIE, twenty-four yenrs. of my” pares ner | Rochester. N.Y. ‘ waa that of falling tows DOBSON, CHARLES, No. 2872 Second avenue; scalp wounds; to Belle-| | OSTERLING, HENRIBTIA, No. 518 West One Hundred and Sixty-| was hurl At all grocers \ Poiiceman Moran's vue Hwspital, fourth street; right arm broken; Roosevelt Hospital pasnengera Narrow Escape. DONMELLON, THOMAS B.. bricklayer. No. 503 West One Hundred and PERNIA, FRITZ. No, 64 West Ninety-elghth street; scalp wounds; H Be eine tng scllnme ata he | Twenty-fitth street. sent to home, 7 8, the potlceman who was = Pea TROTS WATE, CGA Reve tit A DONOHUE, JOHN J., No. 120 West One Hundred and Thirty-third ROURKE, —, No. 846 Jerome avenue: injuries slight. ‘ iciie) peratiy planned to. Tis cuakhs aawand street; contusions of back; Roosovelt Hospital. ROWE, SEYMOUR, bookkeeper, No. 186 West Sixty-second street; |Ne2n!e) 14, nL SOnpN king came to meet his injuries. FITZGERALD, MARTIN, nineteen, of No. 216 West One Hundred and| fractured skull; to Roosevelt Hospital. Pee seen Beem one ae eae . sald Moran torday, Thirty-fourth stroct; internal injuries and scalp wounds, Taken to Roose-) SIETMAN, WILLIAM, member of the wrecking crew: internal injuries, |{ji)i” Mae Wallt and T saw st start to ye been eausght In tha Int ‘bo er ; velt Hospital. ears ; : | Mantiarcinial aide wrecknge. I had been talking to him erborou, h Offi ? STOCKOFF, WILLIAM. twenty-five, No. 311 West Fifty-seventh street; ght. , Under the ‘L structure, for a momen gh Officials Promise|"* ji) MARTIN, of One Hundred and Sixty-first near onox avenue;4 ! ‘ , | hat ny eran inal ncreamea.|1 We're Ready for Fall and us fe turned away 1 sald; ‘Good-| to P; n ‘|internally injured; sent to his home. op rt uf a BR sh VO roduce Kelly This | internal injuries, ‘Taken to Roosevelt Hospital. SPECK, GERTRUDE, stenographer American ‘Tobacco Company, No | Carpet Buyers. hen x eck: ; ing wie There were at icast a | 1815 Fifth avenue; uttended at Robbins'e drug store; taken to Roosevelt Score Dintoned beneath the fallen | Hospital. | ORT naw SWANN, THOMAS, colored, twenty-one porter, No. 252 West One Hun- |o"¢,,1¢8 plnioned. | His Y } GILLIGAN, PATRICK J., No, 356 West’ Fifty-sixth strect; left side L. saw. the car topple over and 7 Aki yrienaropping. vhnoush “the win Afternoon, crushed in; Roosevelt Hospital. . At reid GREBR, JENNIE, fifteen years old, of No. 524 West One Hundred and If we hadn't had our Fall stock so well displayed the past two weeks we would have lost scores of customers. negro with | corner ot the drug store, I yelled to —_. se ! Henry, init he seemed to be pugsled, As ‘ | |torted “i + but he stood undecided which wav to jump| The authoritfes acted promptly tn + Thirtieth street; injured about left side. Sent to her home. | dred and Twenty-fourth street. hour be: 18 Never bef ve hi h ™ -the oki ‘tumbled bi arta shite romptly in the ~ ‘3 | [Pek ere are lever before have we had such a SEED A aa ater a marter of the acclient, Coroner Scholer| HARRISON, LINDSLEY, twenty-four. of No. 281 West Nineteenth) — WEBER, GHORGE, connected with the D., L, & W. real estate depart: |erawi*ita‘y i and minie-er to | large army of early Fall purchasers. ta and summonna thenenbulance Then | mony. The Connnes a absolute har-| treet; hurt about right side, Removed to home. | ment, No, 240 West One Hundred and Twenty-second street; contusions of (he }Jurad untl MEAG ASL OR HAGE Evidently the snap and distinctive- With the axsistance of sone people who | Ficod the old Inspector! 7CK#TEIN, LINCOLN, No. 641 West Fifty-ninth street; legs a (Masea and continued his w hurried up drngwed ane, two | Rod the two mon he most wanted back; ‘Roosevelt Hospital, on the. rel ness of our fresh-from-the-mills crea. were Bwitenman Jackson and Mute. | crushed; Roosevelt Hospital, WEIR, EMILY, sixteen, of No. 17 Manhattan street, right side injured; |the Dodies, It tions are the magnets that draw, \ man Keily, He issicd warrants for JOHNSON, W. C., of No. 362 West One Hundred and Seventeenth to R eat Hospital, thence to home. CN omer is | t and Inspec! " 5 A a peensnhi " : Moen bal oul wiih tea ante tees en ata: steam) need Tamas otianed at West Forty-seventh streat police sta-) Quin, ARTHUR, twenty-two years; nervous shock; Rovsevelt Hos- (M%,an_ mnen released ran Best Boaz Brussels | “ : *| ton and remove , y olutehirg: what rm a ° in finding Jackson; who had gone N pital, OF NI arinks Wile Gna ob oly Now $1.10 Yar: siralght home and to bed after the a RKUAANUER, O., No, 224 West One Hundred and Forty-first street; | GELLEST, HATTIE, twenty years old, No. 209 Amsterdam avenug; |s tthe alin a eldent, But Kelly was not found, slightly injured, ‘ed oe ene ne arenes. amet ‘One girl had manager |] A tomptingly beautiful line of rich 5, Wi 4 ; ital, ‘ore the car fel, and sh tha noticeable Indiyidu- The Interdurough officials announced LYNN, ESTHUR, address unknown; tones broken, internal { injuries alight; Roosevelt. Hosp fie elevated ate tl “5 N, . ; . juries, & No, # he elevated struct ia » them, Ordinaril Id at they wou'd produce Kelly during the nd WISTER, FRED, thirty-five years, No. 312 West One Hundred and {Ne elevated structure, seen nil Ay Pale vee afternoon, From this the Coroner got Ukely to die, Taken to Roosevalt Hospital. | Twenty-fifth street; fracture of bcth arms; Roosevelt Hospital, ‘he {dea that the railroad people had M'MAHON, BRIDGHT, No, 163 West One Hundred and Second street; | ——. — ne Kelly and meant to hold him until i ‘ J | or 4 unt Shey Antarnel njuries and injuries to the head; Roosevelt Hospital, | Gir] Was Laughing Me were laughing and talking when \he Ph aa Kelly may he QU not ton ame teatt| MIKENNA, JOHN T., No. 16 Morningside avenue; left shoulder dis- When Crash Came. | Ov" o4F aid not loave the trnck. | { ysicians Paden} Hert located and right. lex braised) New York: Hospital en Cra * | was knocked unconscious and was tiken Fifteen cholee pattern effects that 2 reeponsibility, but becavss of | located and right leg bruised; New York Hospital. Mins Jonnie Greer, a pretty young | out by two young men Fried me agree that coffes ordinarily, sell ac 0c the yard, e hostile attiude of the crowd, MINER, HENRY, Manhattan avenue; attended by Dr, Byrne, No. 345 4 to the Fiftiet! Feet elev » y t Coroner Soholer, with the aid of the miss of fifteen years, was one of those and ne Rutvelh Stipe ed station, wpecially marked as leaders for the Topestry Brussels. { Naw 52c a Yard. Riess rails keus the \P introductory opening sale, of reet, A ome, fortunate enough to escape with alight there 5 en wea ; Police, has secured the names of a large Week Fitty-Oret atreot, and sent. home, a M injuries, although suffering from shock. through the. ‘window T Yea ee kidueys, Use Number of witnesses, and they will be MOONEY, MAY, stxteen, of No. 1251 Fifth avenue; contusions of back; Bho lives at No. 634 West One Hundred | 1p and my aide ts paining me some and $25 Rugs now $19, 75 Subpoenaed for the inquest, no cate] Roosevelt Hosnital, and Thirtieth street, and is employnd | the doctor has advised me to remain : ° for which has yet boen set, x ts quiet. I think I had a lucky escepa.” ‘Dhe. Con sinleta hh8. she: tbe oe MOCHA: Di 444h. Amsievinm.syeniie) sogtunlana. Of bank |”, PATRI FUP a ss pouty pil, PO ST UM BAY 1 grade Axmi at the One Hundred and Twenty-ftth EX-ASSEMBLYMAN DEAD, hed don Oe sped HL MULLIOAN, MICHABL, No. 242, Went Fitty-third street, tsborer; com-/etrest tation." ald he, “When the} ALBANY, Sept. 11—Ex aa FOOD COFFEE as of bod ed and se ; igre. | train came dn 4t pulled out so quickly |biymen James Brennan, of this city, 8 one men hom a rare Siar eA lx yours olf was nearly lod, ony So-day fi the Albany, Hoe- To build. bagk health,