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NEW YORK DISASTER.

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NEW YORK DISASTER. Overhead Railway Crash CAR FALLS INTO THE STREET, Several Killed; Many !njured. gJNew York, Monday.—A terrible ascident here this morning to a aouth bound w'n on the elevated railway at 53rd street, to k"1 Avenae, whereby ten persona are known !J; av. been killed and 25 to 30 injnrod. On he tn.in, which was crowded, encountered an o?#0 switch, and one OIU. fell into the street, •fturninR in its descent.—Ueuter. Ob ew York (Later).Tho 9 a.m. train wrecked 8t the elevated railroad left Fifty-ninth-streec it h''00 at *our Pft8C ? this morning. It «*lie»ed the switch was left open to lua the thalu into Fifty-third-street- The first car took 18 Points without accident, bat the switch sud- closed, sending the second car along Ninth- k th-Qa ttB,cl £ This car fell into the street, while *^ird car was left hanging over the street, in York (Later).—The accident is the worst i. tthe history of the elevated railroad, and this 'he tit at time that a carriage has fallen into below. toirt on the railtoad followed the accident « <* the thousands of office and shop workers th yic8 down town overtaxed the resources of cars and the enbwaya. j he switchman, to whose slowness the accident to be due. has been arrested. Jjh<j Ninth Avenue train was going at fall speed, r™ its fitst car instead of going down Ninth tnrned the curve and foljowed a Sixth )!^nue train, which had jnat preceded it. *he Cotoner says that the switchman then j^R'avated hia blunder by turning the switch 4. ek in a belated effort to divert the Ninth m?Uo train to its procai track. '*ne BbcoDd car, as it fell into the street, r?#ides turning npside down, alio tnrned com- round. The sides broke to splinters as it "hQCk the ground, and, generally speaking, those jjo had been standing were hurled into the street those who bad seats were jammed in by "^benthos. »it»- P'6C0 metal decapitated a passenger in the front part of the fatal car, and fe s a cerfectly clear cut. The head was 16 feet away from the body. 'The street ib with debris. ■^•ne fomth carriage lodged against the fire w aPe at the corner of a building, and the CJja»«0Sera in this and the fifth car escaped after ijjbing out of the windows of the train. motor man of the forward ear was ^'a?ked by u crowd, bnt be soon convinced his »Uaut. that jt was the switchman who was J'onBible for the accident. lib CQtront was cnt oa *he elevated as soon as the accident occurred, bnt the to # was continued, and the police had Hn^r8'* 80me slight rioting among the enraged M tLlC' wl10 the return of their money, lion y could not be conveyed to their destina- n>"—Renter. What the Elevated" ts. I i„9n the introduction of the Elevated Railway *ch^ "'Cew York it was described as the crowning I in solving problems of rapid transit j W v nQoven,eot began in 1866, and the system I in 1867. The New York line cost) tao're anci tha ^anbattaD Elevated slightly tailwaya rnn Rl°nR Second, Third, Sixth, ] ^"inth Avenues, and are carried, as stated < *ei on girders or trestles zesting upon fc^Rht-lron lattice columns osuallv along the lp^a tones of the street, from 37ft. to 44ft. J {Rations are about one-third of a mile apart. tt..en'ly the magnificent subways with electric "e ?,8 bave done mnch to damage the Bucceaa of ) Elevated."

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