The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1919, Page 8

“AND STEEL TRANS Beveral oficial investigations were to-day into a B. R. T. rear- 804 collision in which forty persons hurt, one seriously, at Broad. and’ Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, Store Your Furs in Our Cold Dry Air Vaults THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1919. at 1115 last night. Fifteen injured|Avenur, Brooklyn, motorman on the passengers, after being treated In the | forward train, is in Bushwick Hos- Bushwick Hospital, a block away,|Pltal in a dying condition from a were sent home fractured skull, John Williams of Ne. 1638 Steffen*| Martin Stephens, sixty years old, Street, Brooklyn, motorman of the|No, 938 Gates Avenue, the conductor, four-car steel train which crashed | was treated for three broken ribs and into the forwatd train, was held in|sent home. $3,000 ball for a hearing July 1 to-day| Others treated for lees serious in- in the Gates Avenue Court. The|juries were: Charles Robbins, an charge is felonious assault blind, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Conductor Steffens is under ‘go McCann, actor, No. at his nome on a charge of fe f ia Avenue, Brooklyn; assault. He ts charged with disre- | Mic jockey, Jamaica track; garding regulations requiring train-| 8! , Jockey, Jamaica men to go back 200 feet with a red | track: ny, No, 107 flag after his train has stopped. | Flu William William Kessler, No. 100 Fountain! J. ¢ actor, To-Morrow’s Specials lyn; Ray Ovens, No. 406 Ferris Street, Woodhaven; Jessie Dozier, Sheeps- head Bay; Fred Taub, No. 112 Glenn Street, Queens; Peter Salmore, Shel- ton Avenue, Jamaica, and Joseph Gorling, No. 361 Christopher Street, Brooklyn. ALexington Avenue local train of two wooden cars, in charge of Kessler bound for Jamal: topped so Kess- ler could get off and put out a fire in some “dead” cars on the ex- press track a few fect away. Coming up behind was a four-car steel train bound from Times Square for Canarsie, in charge of Motorman John ‘Williams, While fighting the «tire, Kessler apparently saw the ap- orNMae* West Thirty-FourthStreet Thru to Thirty-Fifth proaching train and tried to get back to his own, At that moment the steel cars! rammed the two stalled wooden ones, knocking both from the track and demolishing the rear platform of the second car, Kessler was caught as he climbed to his train, No one on the steel train was hurt| and the cars were not damaged, All the injured were on the wooden'cars, where the passengers had been thrown into @ panic by the fire and| collision. ‘ Policeman William Young, a pas- songer on the steel train, said he saw the red tail lights on the train ahead. Why he did not stop his train Motorman Williams has not explained, Williams was arrested and locked up in the Ralph Avenue Sta- He will bo arraigned in the Avenue Court. He is thirty- ears old and lives at No, 1638 ns Avenue, Queens. fter the crash ambulances were sommoned from five hospitals in that section. A number of soidiers aboard the trains aided policemen and fire- men under Hattalion Chief McGuire in rescuing the passengers by means of ladders raised to the elevated structure, 30 PLANES TO FLY OUT 10 WELCOME HERES OF NCL Land, Sea and Air Greeting Planned for Their Arrival To-Morrow. More than thirty airplanes and sea- Planes will fly out to sea to form an escort and guard of honor to Com- mander Tower, Lieut. Commander Read and their comrades of the transatlantic flight crews when they return to this port on the transport Zeppelin to-morrow. Army and navy planes from Rockaway and Mineola, driven by aces of the American air a forces, will form a spectacular fleet as the vessel comes up the Bay. Among the pilots who will fly are Eddie Rickenbacher, Major Jimmy Meissner of Brooklyn, and Douglas Campbell, Lieut. 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