The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1915, Page 3

\ aw toe aT aa a oe {HOSPITALS ALL BG HOSPITALS NITY = CROWDED WITH SENSELESS ~ SUBWAY DISASTER VICTINS 4 “Ambulances, Taxicabs and. Private ““ Cars Race Through Streets With . Menand Women Near DeathAfter Being Dragged From Tubes. . When the first call for ambulances reached the Polyclinic Hospital at 9.30 A M. to-day, and word followed that there wes a big accident in the @ubway, Supt. J. U. Norris woke up the four doctors who had been on duty alt night, and they stood by for duty with the ten doctors of the day. staff. ‘Twenty night nurses were hurried from their beds and: took their places with the thirty day nurses. As many convalescents as were able to help ‘Were shown artificial respiration and how to work pulmotors, Aji the dog- tors in the neighborhood who could be reached were brought in to help. Within a few minutes the two motor ambulances were back, one with two, the other with three unconscious patients. again ‘at full speed. Soon others were racing td the scene from Bellevue, Flower, St. Vincent’s and many other way at Fiftieth Street, at Fifty-fifth Street and at Columbus Circle were * Mke field hospitals in the war, and as fast as it was found that the men vived at once they were lifted into the ambu- and women could not be lances and rushed to linic. ‘There was a constant stream of mo- tor ambulances pouring into the entry ways of the hospital. Mixed-among ‘than! were taxicabs, private cars and even pelivery wagons that had been impressed into service, The scene bore @ weird resemblance to a crowd- 6 night at the opera in the pushing and thgobbing of the eager autos. There no cessation of the rush for at least an hour. Extra cots were brought out and set up_in the cor- rigors. The work of r tation was hastened as fast as safety permitted. It seemed as If all the neighborhood heard of the accident at once and came running to the hospital. People began to arrive in cabe and motors. All swarmed into the reception office oh the Fiftieth Street side and all be- wen 0 make inquiries at once. The leétitary'sollocman on post bad a hard fob of it, but soon he got the erowd ‘\i@ ine. ‘They overwhelmed the two +. young women at the telephones that ‘Feach all the wards with questions about friends. Very little information could be had *@t first, for the victims were burried to the cots without any delay to take names or details. When Meyer Dunze of ‘No. 2218 Fifth Avenue was restored to con- i) «6 #" pcioulsnéss at the Polyclinic; he saw FX "tao policemen standing over him. \ {iz oy Amy I under arrest?” he asked. ene “Na” they answered. ‘ fia wp and all lights out. Well, that’s good,” he went on. “T ‘ads th’an express train that was ‘When I got to the door there were women ‘Ctying and begging the guard to open the doors, He refused and I swung my right, on his jaw and knocked his fread* through the glass of the door. ‘That's the last I remember. Gee! Tm glad I'm not under arrest—oh, and I'm glad I'm alive, too.” Pulmotoss, artificial . respiration, everything that skill could suggest, was weed at Beltevue Hospital to-day ia the hope of saving the two most oey affected patients hurricd ere. These were Ernestine Rein! of No. 985. Bast One Hundred and Sixty- fifth Street, and Frederick Winches- ter, who was too ill to make clear his Gdrees. He gasped his name and immediately became unconscious @gain, The Rein! girl rapidly recdv- ered. Winchester may die. There were eight of the subway patients in the hospital, but six of oo ‘were more or leas prompt in 6 to the restorativen, eption room of Mellevue was soon ded with anxious persons, neek- relatives and friends, Many of looked at the face of the un- , but No one had tden- * afternoon, ¥ of the elgbt rescued from the lay and brought to Hellevue were tattered like beggars after their | One Ten Cent Box of EX rhc way af the end of the rearmost car and carry them 160 oF 200 feet to the emerdeney opening ot Filty-filth Birest, where they could be panned up the The Famous Chocolate Laxative will regulate your bowels and relieve you of the miseries of Constipation pass comet en fa eee. os lade yd CROWDED WITH ¥ TH VICTIMS OF “SUB UBWAY ACCIDE! WILSON es = Hose AMBULANCES WAITING FOR INJURED AT FIFTY-FIFTH STREET AND BROADWAY VOTES FOR We Laie Photographed by an Evening World Staff Photographer.) OBOIOOOEWHIINGDAOAIALGHOI"® GF VCOHWHESHSC’OOI|OIGSOSOSD Facing Another too Daiaall Suffragists, He Reite Stand on Question, 7 —_——. GOSDOS« WASHINGTON, Jan. 6: Wilson to-day reiterated to @» gation of woman suffragints viously announced position that 6% franch'<9 should be brought througu action by the States than through a Federal Amendment. | Le OS RESCUES FROM THE SUBWAY a lifelong that be done Btate,” sald the Prosident. take the same position on a eoertine en men’ ‘ae I jesertin, convictions nit fy changed ae sts ao not Fepecess juestion do tagoniam to the cause. itself.” The ambulances were off hospitals. The sidewalks of Broad- OOOO 00000, fight to get out of the cars in the smoke-filled tube. QUICK PREPARATIONS MADE AT ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL. The moment word reached Roose- velt Hospital that there had been a serious accident in the subway Dr. Al- fred Stillman, Dr. Robert Schneider and a ecore more of the hospital staf? were summoned and the acci- dent room was made ready for the victims, Within a few minutes the ambulances began arrtving and they dashed in and out of the gates until fifty victims of the accident had been brought in. The greater number of these were women and they arrived in all stages of dishevelme: Practically all were without their hats, their faces were their cheeks. All were unconscious and they arrived 0 rapidly {t was impossible to accommodate. them in posited. THRONG WAITS IN RAIN FOR THROUGH SMOKE-FILLED EXIT Sophie Irene Loeb, Special Writer for The Evening World, Watched Work and - Aided the Injured. The entire panorama of the rescues from the emergency exit from the blackened with smoke, save where| Subway at Pifty-fifth street and Broa@Way wes witnessed by Miss their tears had run streaks down| Irene. Loeb, staff writer for The Evening World, who lives at the Rocking: Sophie ham Apartment House, at Broadway and Fifty-sizth stret. Fi “The first that I knew.anything kad dappeged in the neighborhood,” the accident room, #o blankets were| sald Miss Loob, “was when, upon looking out of my window, I saw smoke laid on the marble. floor outside the rolling from the grated emergenty exit of the subway on the west side of Toom and senseless victims were de-| Broadway at Fifty-fifth street. It poured out until a'l the neighborhood was shrouded in it. WHITMAN FORCES JN THE SENATE GIVE TAMMANY FIRST JAB Opposition FIST Quick Con- firmation of Wotherspoon firat to notice treet. He au lift the heavy grating. As the two men struggied with the tron bare, shouts and groans came to them frem the imprisoned people below. They worked like mad, assisted by several pedestrians and workmen from the Buick garage nearby. As svor as they raised the grat’: ,, DeGuiro went down the emergency ladder already in place there, Unconscious Victims Taken Out Through Gratings in Street Policeman DeGuiro of the West Forty-seventh Street atation was the joke ‘pouring through the eubway grating at Fifty-fitth joned Policeman Murray of the eame station to help He began passing up unconscious figures to willing hands above, sande trees your old FEATH. ERS ahi The This was about 920 o'clock. In about five minutes there was a great The pid eae Sil hait « clatter in the street HP a number of fire engines, other apparatus and gm- block on elther side of the hospita!, | lances swung into Broadway. People stood in the rain, half of “The firemen went at once to the grating and took it off. Ladders them without umbrellas, waiting a] Were lowered into the opening and the work of carrying people out was chance to get in and make inquiries. | begun. As fas as the unconscious ones were “In twenty minutes I saw many men carried up out of the ground. carried to cota the pulmotors were|Some of them were laid on the sidewalk and revived there and others Re ae fed baaaligigrisiae thy were hurried off to hospitals. The smoke continued to fill the neighbor- 8 mic movements ef artifeis peipination, Lacie it-was possible to see only bits of what was happening from my tl rsbaaagh iach Ee Ate hel td “Then I went over to those lying on the sidewalk and offered several ‘bones were rare. Before the complete | S0f@ cushions to make them more comfortable. roster of patients was made. there were apparently more than seventy ho himself was overcome and had to be dragged out by firemen when they arrived. DeGuiro was placed in the long line of unconscious folk on the floor of the garage. One of the first volunteer aldea to come to the rescue of the victims, before even the ambulances arrived, was Mra. Henry Russell Brown of No, 406 West Beventy-eighth Street. She was passing in her automobile, and because it is her practice always to carry a medigine kit with her in the machine, she at once became the most sought for person in the vicinity, Mrs. Brown left her machine and went to the Buick garage with her medicines, to give first aid before the ambulance surgeons arrived. “I have ne she said to The Evening World repor “I happened to be at @u where the first victims were brought to the Broadway sidewalks, “It was wonderful to seo woman after woman being lifted to the sur- face, and not a man in sight until the last. Even then all the men who —Governor’s Bills In. By Samuel M. Williams. (Spgcial Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 6.~Tammany made its first futile stand against Gov. Whitman to-day at the opening ses- sion of the Senate by opposfng con- firmation of Gen. Wotherspoon as Superintendent of Public Works, Senator Wagner, the Democratic leader, asked to bave the nomination referred to the Finance Committee for Bank of New York to-day approved the purchase by the bank of $5,000,000 worth of New York City revenue war- rants, It was stated this investment by the bank was not to be regarded nt policy inquiry into the 's qualifi-| were conscious were helping to lift out the women, I made many in- of them under treatment—and only cations for this particular office. He} @uirles and I could learn of only two women trampled in the rush, one fatality up to 1 P. M. said that In 1877, When Gov. Robinson “The guards, too, from all [ could learn from passengers at first hand, DOCTORS SAVE VICTIMS BY | appointed George B. McClellan | #t0od at their posts and attended to their duties like heroes,” ARTIFICIAL R NRATION. to thid same office, a Republican Bet: | renner Many of the women, in ate rejected him because he lacked tore, aN “thelr clent income to meet all the expenses of the main bank and the purchase of municipal warrants has been author- tzed temporary method of increas- jing earnings, — vs aye Pha having their jacket ekirta and their handbags and other belongings stripped from ti were badly bruised in the Agbting for air and escape which took place in the trains. Thero were no pulmotors in Roose- velt Hospital, ull of them having been ru@hed to the ecene of the accident. This made it necessary for the doc- tors to revert to the old-fashioned methods of artificial respiration. They did thie with a will. —_—_~—__ BLEASE FREED DEAD WOMAN. SPARTANBURG, 8, C., Jan. 6.—A pardon was received t special qualifications for canal work “Yet,” said Wagner, “Gen, McClel- lan was an engineer and head of a railway. Gen. Wotherspoon is not an engineer, know, thing of the eanal tw rewident of this VICTIMS STN SALES (Continued From First Page.) Republican Leader Brown said it was the intention of the majority to refer all nominations, but in thix cane, because of the objection m » he Nearest me, the sight that met my eyes was awful. | saw men and women pnp peeeainse confirmation, whice sitting stark in their seats, with eyes glazed and faces turned up, uncon- us. Others were crawling around on the floors of the curs, knocking over those who sat like dead people in their seats and trampling those wiso |!" lay on the floor, Many had become unconscious while trying to elimb “Exactly What ) Was Looking Fo neo what in wuld = Wa ming to the ry amid NO REASON WHY YOU CANNOT OBTAIN WHITE ROSE TEA “The only thing left to us E fear is and help to appeal lo the conscience Clerk of the Court from through the windows, Others had fallen in their frantle effort to grope a| ot yn aa vee to stay Drummond. The records | way up and down the tunnels to the Fiftieth Street and Fifty-pinth Street | ‘Tbe L ning for wtutiona. Thaddeus bi “We found men propped up against the subway walle under ventilators |‘) SW! vf Onwexy County, Bywukor At the beginning of hostilities es OY Se einer SY Seles 0a Gaeta elie Mio Tonge) es oh Meteriewe Prenient: Wo 198 9 abroad many dealers gave large orders | ul “1 Immediately sent no J call upon my arrival, which brought | yi Us the Kepublican cantidater tor for White Rose Ceylon Tea; fearing us, We needed men—not machines, 66 men and 7 he treet and ran 86-foot laddere down | that the supply might become re- stricted and the price be raised. The price was net raised, but it was necessary to limit the quontitics \urniched to dealers, in order to conserve the tock and continue 0 steady and even supply. In come instances it is posoitole thet the grecer, finding his orders thus cut down, may hove foiled to supply you with White Rose Tea, Il se, you will bo glad to bnew that there 19 now no reason why you cheuld accept any oub- saute, os shipments ase now coming lerwerd segulerty and dociers can obiain thew full requirements. “FYose “Also to give further vents to the emoke | ordered axmen to cut through Broadway.” The pante in the two rear cars of the stalled southbound local mus | "440 fend in both hours have been indescribable and in was in those two care that the most frightful Juin pes » the scenes of women's utter terror and men's brutality must have occurred “The majority of passengers in these two care seemed tu have heew | women. It appeared to ws they fered very badly ut the hands of the men helsg trampled and elmurt endressed by the men In the latter's efforts to wrt ont, S| hot AnnemBly f eurrying Now, here's a homelike scene, Hut you ougis to look down And the boarding table Laden with wholesome wares, Yuu can see both these places, the sind you cam alford, it you let World Want Ads. oI Just where to room and 25,671 4 Word “TO vere of meginoeee, WANTED” Ads, Last e 10,997 . on sai a esac 1 "TO LET? of “BOARD El» Ads, printed in un and The firemen had to itt (he uncousclous vietime out of a uarrow door ont wae muy heat by both FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BUYS REVENUE WARRANTS taken “ r unti “We fouxbt the fire im the nasi of biesing wires behind # fan wheped well wanes. | eprey, whieh drove the poisonous gases down to the two manhole opeulige ot Vifty-second and Vifiy-thind Mtreets” Whew asked if wither of the two stalled trains consteted uf wooden ears Cilet Keaton said “To the beet of my knowledge, no But 1 am not able to anewer deli wantely 2 bed gacte in the mouth, | wlieiy that point becwuse the emoke as eo thick dow— there | could nol poquent i Pe on Sunday W they wil gah medi Lodity re Spe cen war Local Branch Takes Up $5,000,000 rhe yd 2 i fi o o Sun COMBINELA teahow! tet Mase tite by Poteon, sai? t00H00 le onniened to Worth of New York City Paper, OS the Vodum teowve 7” dita rar rm we