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SUBWAY DISASTER ll Of 200-Tor Sp tdh nick Caused 40 Deaths, Engineer Says : at Coroner's Inquest. ag CHANGE IN PLANS.|y Accident Not Likely to ne Again, Says Official COnMUTITA® “engineer: Charles TH. Gtil- Jempie, No, 1123 Broadway, erchitect; H.W. Winter, No. 2667 Broad grocer: James Hutchinson, No. y. men’s furnishings; M. B. hty, No, 271 West One Mundrod and Twenty-Afmh street, tobdacconist; ar a One Lal hae Poh ‘Thiety- rnishings; \Gearee we paery ‘te "Ne. ‘eae Broad- be 25 sth dealer. Breekindridge briefly told the ser. “the matn clrowmstances of the ac- | cldent-<escrited the locality about Lez: |ington avenue and Pifty-stath treet and {n the express tunnel of the new | subway. He said @ rock estimated at eighing between 29 and 9% tons hed ROS Soatun oS" gaudy cures. avenct ooaipeor of qubway construc- “How near wae any diasting Ln the point of the , ecotdent?™ eoked “About twenty feet south” Q, Was the rock through which the tunnel was being ériven good? A. Yoo, and we thought it was getting beter as we eouth. YELLOW PINE PROPS HOLD UP ROOF OF ROCK. Juror Flagg studied a Vive orint of the cross esstion at the evene of the accident. lle Poy Kn? Mi oay Pe gage ise. Q. Did you put in any vertical prope’ “{A. No. They would have been shot away at every Ddiast. THE EVENING All tunneling ts dangerous.” average. A @ storm of questions from guarding the men had been made, ad4: ing: “The eame peculiar combination of frock seame could not ococur once in a thousand times.” CONTRACTORS “PASS THE euck” TO COMMISBION. wea ieee chiet engineer of the Sonatruction Company, ‘passed the the bw to the Pifbiic Service Com- Whe 19 responaitie for the shoring and bracing done tn the tunnels?" asked Juror Booyemith. “When we find a place that requires anything of the eort,” decared Ofr. Hipkine, ‘we have drawings made, eub- mit them to the Pubilo Service Com- mission, and efter they are @pproved there they are put in pince.” “Were drawings made for bracing or props at the point of thie accident?” “There were. 1 am informed by my aonistant, 1. G. Edwards, that tite was Gone and no objection was offered.” Questions 6y jurors elicited the state- mem from Hipkins that this shoring was pot euMfictent to hold the rock alvove tt. He eaid the trouble was in estimating the etrength of the rook. ENGINEER GALKS AT JUROR’S GTRING OF QUESTIONS. Juror Flagg came back to the after- noon session of the Inquest with a pre- pared ilst of questions. He asked Engi- neer Hipkins if there me pro- tection in the tunnel _WORLD, FRIDAY ‘Mr. Hipkins said the thnnel was safe— eine a hi the Coroner regarding the lines to be followed in the testimony. Coroner Feinberg said this was an in- quisition for the purpose of fixing the FRIDAY, JUNE 20, | 1918, patrolman raid, and it wae ob by big hotels received simi! nd to ‘weue ‘additional instructions that the order did not include the hotets or igher claas cafes. blame for the accident and he ruled the} \ Questions of the jurors were proper. Mr. Keating asked if there were tun- nels through rock in New York in which no shoring was necessary. He said no shoring was used in the Lexingtoa ave- nue tunnel between Ninety-fourth and Ninety-sixth streets, under Broadway, around One “It fe not the custom to shore up rock except where vorings or soundings reveal treacherous rock," said the wit- nese. as POLICE RAID ORCHESTRAS Hundred and Sixtieth street ; CAI»: tr rargrii1it IN INDIANAPOLIS HOTELS. |j INDIANAPOLMB, Ind., June 8.—Obey- ing every word of a police order that musto in ruoms adjacent to saloons | im must not be allowed, members of the Indianapolis Police Department started | [ on the trail of the muse of melody here last night, and in a short time had apread indignation throughout the large hotels and brought @ war party of hote! managers down of Superintendent of he had entered it Gaily. The witness re- aie 7 , 0 fon| to the m fue a to — hea. jurors question sou iave te out out thal Z el It was the Intendent’ Bradley Company's lawyer, went 10 bie | qntmuemmmeeenen soos rescue. 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