The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1915, Page 2

Hh STREET CAR Oe ee ee Thee mart serious) bert eer eons re Direwe were given temporary Ureetmen! tore brine oon! ae ot ey weettale « Untowied'y thee epporteneys pleted privet: + - the Views Gf severe whe would have surcumbed Hiihowl (he (erthities atloriet ee ee es The sorkwmen O06 firemen bere wded by oscetion A empetery poles wetton shed om the ater hey there ter wm ar ental the aocident. ond from there al! polier movements Pare directed Belore now there several lerretigations ender way A men beow August Midnight, eni4 to be te charge of the bingtiog. we Sought by the potion He wae not found 204 © general ainrm har Boon sew ut calling for hie arrent Under the iw oe of Jeter Malone, Metrict Attorney Merkin Cesk the Beylember | jury te the sete of the eenident te mare an Imepectien GIRL SAW COLLAPSE AND GAVE ALARM Police Headquari#re on the telephone ahd deserived the seeident Withia 2 fee minutes Voluntecrs were carrying dened or dying poople into the we fore rooms One of the worst cones wee that of o6 014 women richly dressed around whowe neck b & string of pearie as well os & gold chain to which » locket war attached Mise Bpencer took the old woman's gray head in ber lay. and in obbdi- ence to her gestures loosened the gold chain and gave ber # dr of water. She died within ten minutes from crushed apine, the doctors said he was drossed all tp black. There was nothing to identify her Down to the debris, twisted among girders and thnbers, were wires Jeading to three charges of dynamite set for blasting, but unexploded It was reported to the officials of the Public Berviee Commission (hat thirty five sticks of dymamite were taken Into the (uanel for blasting at 7 o'clock , te morning. PRIEST DESCRIBES SCENE. “The horrors of Dante's ‘Inferno’ cannot comp: with what I saw in| ” declared r Higgine of Columbia's Church, one of the first to the seene. He hurried out with F thers Dooley and Hogers of the | same churob and met the Rev. M. P, MoMabon, ehief of the Paulist Father From the brink of the excavation (he priests could see the infared and the faces of a few dead, They tried to get ladders to ‘and when they could not they made their way to the centre of the atrest over & beam and slid down the car traoks which had dropped In. ery side men wih smashed arms and legs were begging us for ald.” Pather Higati id, “some of them crying in a foreign tongue. ‘Help mea, help me,’ they wore oil crying, and the horror of it was that we could not help ono of them, From one mound of earth and network of ste! I saw the arm of a buried man. ‘The priests succored as many ax possible and called for volunteers from among the hundreds gathered on the street above, Several men followed them in their deaperate slide down the inclined tracks and the sufferers were Ned out and raised to the street. . Brom the windows of high buildings all about the scene many saw the the pit before the firemen errived. Hundreds rushed to the brink, formed human chains and dragged some ot the injured out. Priests and ministers rushed trom nearby churches. ‘The Jast rites were administered to many upon the sidewalk. Dr. Van der Bogart and ten surgeons and five purses from nearby hos- pitals established « base hospital in the excavation at Twenty-fifth Street within a few yards of the spot where victims were being dug out. HUNDREDS SAW CROWD BNGULFED. . ‘When Chief Kenton arrived business men of the nelghborhood hurried to bim and told him an unusually heavy blast had preceded the collapse | of the roadway. Arthur Rogers, owner of a liquor store, and Frederick’) , Diller of the National Cloak and Suit Company were among these, and Kenlon immediately summoned Thomas Mershall, the foreman in charge of the work. | Marshall at first denied there bad been s blast and sald there was, mot # loose stick of dynamite in the excavation, He said it was all ip & *powder box further up the street. “That's not ¢0,” shouted Deputy Battalion Chief Lawrence MoGuire, whe bad come up in time to hear Marshall; “here are twejve sticks of dypamite found down there by ope of my men.” He exhibited the explosive and Marshall refused to say another word. ‘That was the first intimation Chief Kenion had that bis men were swing ing picks and burning acetyline torches near where dynamite was lying about loose. ‘The street wes teeming with traffic when the cave-in occurred, The car which wes carried down wes going north, crowded with passengers. Ap Phret brewery truck was running at the side. Many young girls were crossing et Twenty-fourth Street. But @ few _ neconds olapsed trom the time the firet planking went through, just south of Twenty-fifth Street, until the shoring along the two blocks was carried away. As men and women went down they uttered wild eries for help. The motorman of the car tried to bring it to a stop when he saw what was in front of him. Many In the trolley car smashed the windows and fought to get out at the first sinking foeling, but as they struggled they were carried under, A second car was stopped on the very brink of the north end of the @eaom. The passengers in it became frantic. They tore each other's clothes and struck and kicked in their mad figkt to get out of the rear doors. Cecilia Shapiro, a cloakmaker of No. 64 East One Hundred and ‘Third Street was trampled and bruised so that she had to be taken to St. ‘Vinoest’s Hospital, where she developed hysteria which endangered her lite. The police report that John Mayne, twentydive years old, motorman of the car that sank in the chasm, was able to ste off before it weat under. He ran through Twenty-fourth Stroet at top speed to Sixth Avenue, where he fumiped aboard o car that was standing at the corner and tried to start it with the controller he had carried from bis lost cay. He was caught and held as 6 witness, CALL FOR AID ALL OVER CITY. ‘The first intimation of the acetdent thet reached Polloe Headquarters was signal that the high pressure main had broken. Immediately a call was sent for sappers and miners, A second later, however, came the news of what had really happened. Two alarms of fire were sent out and a call sent for all the available firemen in the city without apparatus and for all available ambulances. Several hundred police reserves were ordered to the spot and Police Com- and assumed control of the situation. ‘When the firemen arrived the scene was one of utter misery and heiples #4 in spite of the efforts of many citizens and several policemen to render aid, A few of the laborers who had escaped serious injury had crawled to the sidewalk, suffering trom cute and bruises, and told the police that eighty-five workmen were in the excavation when the cave-in @eourred and most of them were pinned so far down in the bottom of the hole that little hope is held out for them. Without waiting for ladders many firemen climbed into the maelstrom of gutfering. They came crawling up the sidewalks carrying the dead and dying. Then the long ladders dropped down and citizen volunteers aided the firemen in the rescue. White clad ambulance surgeons and pricete climbed down and carried out the injured. They were hurried DROPS INTO HOLE MADE BY DYNAMITE BLAST 266046 OO 6SOS6 504Oseere- O88 Mies ole Bpencer of No 614 Weet Teentioth Street, Becretary of the Welfare League of the National ( ik and Bult Compamy, flood ot the Window of ber officer on Ube third floor end the street smh She called) engulfing of the crowd and the fight of the dying and injured to get out of | } | missioner Woods and Fire Commissioner Adamson hurried to the scene! ope ee my ~ Ce aie Se eee bn “ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1915. Rescuers at Work Digging Out Victims of Cave-In A Few Minutes After Explosion in Subway (SPECIALLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY AN EVENING WORLD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER | teeta ee ee eee nee WELFARE ROOM FOR WORKERS MADE EMERGENCY HOSPITAL seeeeree ete eee eetn es ahh heehee Le eee oe eet ee eee rene : and Women Employees of National Cloak and Suit Company Give Invaluable Aid to Doctors and Nurses As oon we the ce ond wninjured *orkmen were able to get any © ounded oul of the pit in @ hich the . oor and pipes and bume eines lay mined fn awful confusion as « t of the explo they the nearest bul ‘ ewall the arrival of amb . One of place thee ered ae the ; t Nott 4 Suit Company, at Twee : Street and Seventh Aveu . ; : On the third floor of 1 ‘ a welfare r whieh ordinarily te ? + devoted Wo the eare of mpeuy's eup it iuipped with ‘ + belt # dozen cots, tw tore and (wo nurses, Ali of th as well as men employed in the culling department aod gitle *ho run sewing machines, } hastened to help the groaning people ws they were carried out of the ele vators Beores of Wounded persons were carried into these rooms. Half « , en sinbulances f various hospitale were halted at the rear door of b4 the building, and as fast as possible the injured were taken down to thew and hurried to the hospitals Phe doctors and nusee first ald to the Heth aided by th injured men and rothy women from the work ; Maddalena, a girl who rooma, say training at nursing. had @ very did herole work, the doctors in t helping to bandoge and hold the suflere The Kev. Father Meling of the , # | Church of St. Vincent Paul, in West Twenty-third Street, nearby, has i P tened to the temporary hospital, helped the doctors, cheered the injured 4 und sought those who neoded the oMees of the church Among the bodies brought in were those of a man and woman found S| crushed and clinging to ench other. They were thought to be man and wife It je not known whether they were on the car or walking across the avenue when death overtook them As fast as the dead or injured were identified they were tagged with Jonk and suit tage tled to thelr clothing, on which were written their namos and addresses and the supposed nature of their hurts ‘ Nearly three thousand employees of the National Cloak and Sutt Com wny swamped all the telephones of the nelghborhood, aending home word to their families of their condition. As soon as the news apread crowds of “elatives of the operatives rushed to the scene. Police Commiastoner Woods took personal charge of the reserves from the five nearest precinets and kept he crowda in order. ; z jy eray Seman fee eek ™ "| SUBMARINE SINKS right leg and ankle ¢| AT FLOWER HOSPITAL. ASPREL, LENA, twenty-three, No. {100 Seventh Street, shock, abrasions LONDON. teamer Sept, 22.—The Dante orbaldfen has been sunk ‘y a German submarine, The orew and contusions, ids. baved. | LABELLE, Dora, No, 306 Second ———_— | Street; shock, abrasions and con natons. WHAT CITY OFFICIALS SAY. HILD, FANNY, thirty-two, No. 420 | Bast Sixth Stret; shock and con ‘ | tusions Upon reaching City Hall after hav SAMINET, D,, thirty-six, No, 293| {7% Visited the scene of the accident Mayor Mitchel sald say about this terribly unfortunate necident? So far no one Is able to state authoritatively just what was the cause of it, T assume, however, home| that the various Investigations whieh |have already been begun will de- Avenue A; contusions and shock. ‘What can on: SENT HOME. | Among those treated at the emerg Jency hospital of the National Cloak ‘und suit and sent Company terming the caure," When Chairman Edward McCall ar- BUC CES TEHD SAC, CLARENCE; eighteen; ‘aborer; No, 169 Norfolk Street; 4 Henschel Nortel Feet | rived at his office in the Public , | COHN, GUSSIE, twenty-one, clerk,| urvien Commission | following | bis 3 £| No, 389 South Second Street, Brook pate ? baie oot 3 | yn; abrasions and contusions. | Adit Sees al & $| "Grimes, ABRAHAM, clothing op. {ll the facts have beon ascertained. SBPOINDINGDE EDD DDO D6 4ODG54G 104046806 6OHVH4 OE F9GD $PEDPARE SHOEI EEOEOD 120 Sheriff Street; shock | 2s HUGHEY, WALTER, foreman, No.| THOMPSON'S nim At times there was a negative shake of the head and the body was and shock, Street, Brooklyn; many bruises, 209 West Twentieth Street,” United | varried away to Twenty-fourth Street, where on the sidewalk lay the other! NIGER, ABRAHAM; forty; No. 196 2 NO, ROSE, Realty and Improvement Company; | i | P L E . vodies covered with white sheeting. Park Avenue, Brooklyn; general con-) GOLDBERG, IDA, eighteen, opera-| -uiyex of head and both arms, | J . tusions. |tor, No, 805 Madison Street; body! yirin, SAMU twenty-throo, | [ilmmmombeiiCtth ln 8 OAT) 08 MONET Back] HALF HOUR TO GET ONE MAN OUT. TAPICZNK, TONY Firemen clearing away the debris on the west side of the cut noar| No. 717 Ninth Street; fractured leg. bruised and cut, twenty-one, GOLDFELD, HYMIE, thirty-eight, | t Street; bruises. | furrter, No, 100 Wi M'GER, ARTHUR; forty-five; N Now in tubes, 2% wo, operator, No, 456 Cherry Street: | a ito, or, No. 95 Kenny ¢ ‘ook- pooh Twenty-fifth Street heard # volce under their fect at 9.30 o'clock. Tears] REITER, FANNIE, twonty, No, 167) tallor, No. 95 Kenny Street, Br io {8 Cherry Street; contusion hip | Yo fcems nt... ing away timbers and stones, they came upon the head of # man pinned | Suffolk Street; internal injuries, {!7ai contusions and internal Injuries.) ouucK, ANTONIO, twenty: | Lo ——— = Aa ghes ; bi - an htcoa, No,| KBlly SAMUEL, twenty-five, cut- | U ANTONIG HELP WANTED—MALE down by a great mass of material, He was conscious, but unable to speak | RESSLER, IE, nineteen, No.! No" 934 ssuat Second Street; cuts| ne, laborer, No, 717 East Ninth) ——2S—W. g English. 181 Second Street; injuries of knee aGh GehikaR t Street; cute, WANTED = aa Shia and contusions ml 4 5 NNIE, -lcumming et Amentan Laund oh Mr, Chiot Kenlon was called and took personal charge of the work of get:)“" "iment Hora, twonty-three, No.| LANG, ANNIE, thirty-three, drosa- | RALTERMAN, MINNIE, twontyiNW" ry aus times. (10 tT PY At Ung out this survivor. Nearly half an hour was consumed in the work,|39 Norfolk sin and after the man was uncovered it was necessary to rig up @ stretoher | condition serious. maker, No, 115 West Fifteenth Street; internal |sjurles; cuts, « unconscious from shock, ELP_WANTED—FEMAL ! hei e eos 5 SIEMAN, ALICE, nineteen, cloak! Siyrcp twos exper and carry him up a long ladder, Mis left arm and leg are crushed) ROSEN, A.; twenty-two; No. 44) VEGORE, CHARLES, luborer, No.| aaigyer, No, 181 Graham Avenue, W tony vod tf tig ag re and he has tnternal injuries. In St, Vincent's Hoepital he ts Usted as| Attorney Street; ¢ractured leg and|%°0 Avenue Ci internal Injuries, Brooklyn; shock and cuts, SSRs Aen aL, Mueny “Laborer 414.” Sante MACENSKI, FRANK; right leg al- i M. / ROSENFELD, jineteen, No. 100| ™0st severed at hip. ORLANDO, MARGARET, No. 95 Woodhull Street, Brooklyn; wrenched back and injuries of head. PUCHO: CLARA, elghteen, op- erator; No, 169 Norfolk Street; bruises, RAMANGHICK, MICHAEL; No 225 Hast Fourteenth Street; hurt right shoulder and leg. Second Street; left ribs. ROSSDOCK, WILLIE, no address or age given; sprained ankle, SECA, JOSEPH, thirty-seven, No 427 East Sixteenth Street; contusions ot head, SLVER, JACOB, twenty-three, No. possible fracture of PARTIAL LIST OF VICTIMS OF COLLAPSE OF SUBWAY (Continued from Fi OMFLAINTS what are known in the department : br ” East Seventh Street; injuries to] SHAPIRO, CECILIA, clothing op- Sere By diy 0 Ncomebacke, knee, erator, No, 64 Bast One Hundred ang is @ vain effort to convince the patron th SHAPIRO, POLLY, twenty-three, | Third Street; hysteria and bruises, lutely nothing the matter with the joods, that the imperfection Je purely imaginary, The other way ig by @ frank admission of any shortcomings that may exist and a ch ul willingness to right the wrongs. In the CANDY business, we aim for perfection, but even the world’s champion rifle shot may miss the bull’s-eye sometimes, and we are Unidentified woman, dying. TIFIED WOMAN, forty- No, 709 Fast Sixth Street; shock and, contusions. | SOCHER, ‘st Pawe,) Ly No. twenty-one, ured leg. operator; No, Idi Broome Street; No, 106 Third Street; fractured rig’t yy twenty-four, No not exceptional, If at any time you have a comeback, you can bruises bod; and back leg 186 Penn Street, Brooklyn; seriously er favorthan dropping a line to Headquarters telling ABRAHAM, thirty-two,| GOLDMAD seventeen, No, ag7|!njured internally | as no greater injury can be done us than by Sheriff Street; general con-| Madison Street; shock and contusions| WEZIN, ABRAHAM, forty, No, 196 ce alone. n back. |Park Avenue, Brooklyn; contusions, Special for SUGAM PEPr! TEMGREENS— Dainty ite. batton-shape dinke ORIBFINGRR, Thursday three, No LILLY, — twenty- 141-2 Easex Street; con- ZWEITZI NBA I, ISAAC; No, 470 HOLLANDER, DAVLD, fifteen, No. East Houston Street; general contu- | 27 Avenue C; contusions and shock, tusions and possibly fractured skull,| LARGE, OBCAR, twenty-two, No. | %!0%# tae cream, richly condition serious, 222 Powell Btreet, Brooklyn; com- AT ST. VINCENT’S. with tinest Oils of HYMOWITZ, hist tink, twenty, No.) pound fracture of the femur; condi-| APSKl, LNA, twenty-three, No. 186 Attorney Street; internal injuries,| tion serious, 100 Seventh Street; abrasions both WE ALSO OFFER: KEISER, KARL; twenty; No. 111! LEVINE, MORRIS, twenty, No. legs, left hand and chin, TR COVRRED ROASTED PEANUTS—What more com mame suxgenin? Primes fresh roasted Virgin joh, fraxramt, v4 in our anmatchably el vety Fast Righty-first Street; internal in- vocal hovolati Attorney Street; contusions of right) BANKETTA, BENJAMIN, No, 2239 iato pital of the ambulances were kept racing back and forth from the porne, carrying those who might be saved by an operation to the hospitals. Rpecial instruments were hurried to the loft buildings, and there volunteer «Ag each rescuer came to the street with his burden a dootor hurried to Juries, ‘ | kni Adams Street, Bronx; internal in- pastel BL LAUDER, BDNA, twenty-one, fore-| LORTINO, ROSIE, twenty-five, No. | juries, 64 GANCLAY ATHERT 408 BROADWAY lady; bruises head and body, 66+ Firat Avenue; fracture of leg. BARAC, FARUIS; twenty-four; No, a va Ome ities ” LEDERHEIM, LENA, seventeen,| M'GRAW, CHARLES; fifty-six; la-| 806 Hast Second Street; both legs iT Cry {30 9. Ae enh No. #8 Ludlow Street; shock and| borer; No. 800 Avenue A; broken ribs, | broken. v ANT he hei deneee Spe other injuries. back wrenched, BOKIB, FANNIE, elghtoen, No, 305 ovget rw erie 5 ear inf Ba LEKAR, JOSMPH; thirty-seven;| MONTHL, LENA, twenty, No, 125| Second Street, Brooklyn; many bones ie “th ren sor® 44 Oe ef | No. 427 Bast Sixteenth Street; inter-|Stanton Street; Internal injuries, broken; condition serious “ peti ron" oF. ew G i, Thal injuries NEIDEN BERG, DORA, twenty, No,.| CAVALBRO, GUOKGE. Daily } LEVINE, Gitesli, qwenty-tous! sis Gocvau Aycuuci fractured bones! PIRMAN, ALICE, No. 1é1 Grand ‘The epenitied weleht inelnden tho container § each enep, aves, —