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Runaway Stopped by Auto After Long Race
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SUBWAY TRAINS CRASH
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PRICE ONE CENT.
POLICE IN FLYING AUTO
CIS
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M MILES OF STREETS
One Man Severely Bruised and
Two Others Shaken Up
Making Capture.
BIG CROWD FOLLOWS.
Machine Cornered Mustang
Twice, but Wild Animal
Managed to Escape.
Three policemen In an nutomotillo
chaneil a runaway mustang two miles
.through tho streets of Harlem this
afternoon, from One Hundred and
Thirty -fifth street and Broadway
down to One Hundredth street and
Eighth avenue. At tho latter point
the animal, exhausted, tried to get
Into Central Park, and onn of the
cops, Charles Drnhm, caught It by
the nose and mane and threw, It to
tho payement. The horso fell on top
of Brohm andlYJjurt(Jilni so badly he
was excused from duty on slok loave.
fltro Provomsono, a baker, at No. 337
Rant One Hundred and Sixth street. Is
the oirner nf the liorsc Ho bought It a
few day ago and used It as tho motive
power for Ills delivery wagon. As the
mustang was not broken to the eight"
and rounds or city streets Provenz,m
drovo the rig himself.
Provensono was at One Hundred and
Thirty-fifth street and llroadway when
tho animal took fright at a flying ploco
of newspaper and bolted Into tho wall
of the subway. The driver was thrown
from ids teat and stunned. The horso
tore loose from thn cart, breaking t!i
faces and ntso separating himself from
the bit and brtdlo.
POLICE GAVE CHASE IN SPEED
ING AUTO.
As the frightened little animal sped
down Uroadway Urohm and two other
patrolman, Thomas Currun and Edwnid
Hwey, commandesrsd a big touring
car and started In pursuit. They caught
tho horso at Manhattan struct and the
chauffeur headed It off while the police
men Jumped from the car.
By that time there wasn't much har
ness loft on the animal. Curran mado
Jump for the horse's mane and sot a
crip. Ho was drugged across tin
street until his foot hit the curbln ,
when he let go and fe'.l headlong,
scratching most of the skin off t. c
palm of his left hand and breaking one
of his finger.
Thn horso ran east In Manhattan
treat and tho three cop Jumped Into
the car again and took up the pursuit.
Other automobiles had Joined In, and a
big crowd of boys and men ran alone
to see the fun,
At St. Nicholas avenue the agile mus
tang turned south, The automobile was
some distance behind und did not catch
up to the quarry until One Hundred
und Kleventh street was reached. There
the car headed off tho runaway, which
turned west to lila-hth avenue and then
headed south tra that thoroughfare,
MANY AUTOS JOIN DIG CROWD
IN CHASE.
Through a tangle of truffle at the
Junction of One Hundredth nnd Tout',
street the mustang ran at ' top apt-rd.
The automobile thud to slow down and
before speed could U picked up tho
horse was three blocks In the lead.
There was a regular cavalcade of auto
mobiles and delivery carts In the pur
suit by this time.
In front of the Tied Cross Hospital at
Onu Hundredth street tho nuiaiang,
blown and with his lets quivering, but
still full of flsht, stopped, turned and
headed for tho park wall. Here Hrolnn
did his stunt of throwing tho animal by
a nose grip to his own pain and dis
comfiture. Tho two other policemen, after secur
ing the horse, went Into tho hospital
and had their wounds dressed. .Mons
rami) I'rovenssono, who had been chasing
his horse In an automobile. He, too.
Iind ruts nnd bruises dressed at the
hospital before ho led Ids mustang to
the barn.
Former Stnire I'lttorlli Hies.
SIIDDLBTOWN, N. Y May ll.-fMrs.
Adellna K, Kclley, formerly a well
known dancer on the New York stage,
was found dead In bed at the Middle
town .State Hospital this morning. She
tias an eptloptlc subject and had been
taken with a seizure during the night,
during which sho turned on her face
and was smothered to death. Hhe was
sixty-one years of ago and was ad
mitted to the 'hospital from New York
City, twilva yMJi if .
Ceprrtaht. lilt a. I.r
Co. IThe Keer
RUNAWAY THROUGH
GAYNOR WHACKS
TAFT AND T. R. IN
TALK ON TRUSTS
He Would Meet Problem by
Repealing Laws Encourag
ing Holding Companies.
Incidental to a talk on books before
the annual convention of the American
Booksellers' Association to-day, In which
he declared the Hlfole to be the best
seller, with tho "Unltatlon of Christ"
probably In second iplace. Mayor Oay-
iwir- a ave utteranoA in Mm emit,,!. .
marks about Tnft and Roosevelt. Home,
of his hearers thought the Mayor was
placing his plu hat In the ring whan'
he advanced some theories about trusts i
luiu ,4i .
With his usual clarity of expression, ,
Mayor Oaynor wont rlfht to what ho 1
considers the root of the trust situation.
He asked to he shown the common
rente of battling against trusts while
we pormU to remain on th'e statulo
Iwoks of certain States laws Which al-
low and, In fact, encourage the organ-
pUin that ho a,ivocatcJ the repeal or
laws which permit the formation of
trusts and In that way do away with ,
Illegal forms of combination simply and ,
expeditiously.
All this iKilitlcaJ talk followed an Intl-
mate dlsrourr by the Mayor on the
subject of books and reading. Ho raid
he deplored the nbsonce nowadays of
the old-fashioned book store where one
might "lounge around for an hour or
two."
BIBLE THE BEST SELLER, HE
18 SURE.
In the book ntorles of to-Jay, said the chance Tor life, even should the Oov
Mayor, It was possible to And usually ernor declJe to refer the oase to the
only mo soven esi neuwr. out i
ad led he supposed tint the IilUs was
really the best seller In the world. Thore
tra. a time. Ma or uaynor " '
the Hlble was followed by a book called .
me imua-iou u.r... hasj egpreaaed un.lterable opposition
Vhe su 1 ho w.v. su:o the'e t ottptttll punishment. Wlnheld Shus.
..:e ,. ol. -toie ',0th in i Ne.v lt.,. a,M, ,a op,,0He(, , Jtnt,
orlt 41H... lto.lou. He .al. ho did n- )ulty ,)Ut not M0 ,lrunel, Counc,or
c. - i Hi mo w.'.e .in', -"trust In rcMH f0ns
,.;;:iflt";n7t.rmerol IN THE COUNCIL
IvWliIng tilings up, rather than Und a, WOULD STAND,
oinvnilloii of nearly throe hundred. The remaining member, aocordlm;
"Hut you pm plo have no exact basis on to previously oxprcxhud opinions, 1.
which to organlzo or you would do It as
quick as snap," continued Mayor Oay
nor. "Maybo you would not du ao wrong
either. Hvoryhody In crying out against
tho holding company: that Is to say, tho
trust, and when It comes to getting any
th r.g, everybody Is running to the trust
to buy what ho wants, Uverybody Is
, oiil'ug and et everybody seems to
llkn .1.
T..e ioht.!.ni are eeoldtng the most
n 'out it. and ,i.ril think they,h .... . .... ,,,," V ''
wr. pe.tv well s.tiMled. as they ap- ' hf. U1" ,A ' a'vI ""'l0,",nt-
,.. ,, m". t!-i : - sham n"rt'- I; '" leanied authnrl'ntlvely
battle on the subject. And et the poll-
i; , s i ii i ni.iU'i. a .. mils,'
. i -'t ' i neir.i
V..,i
nnv o' t i get e- an i 'ay -repcn
the nintutes under wh'eh they organize.'
STATES ORGANIZE THEM, GOV
ERNMENT FIGHTS.
"Not one rould exist except for the
statute they are organised under, not
one. Hut they pass statutes to urbanize
them, and then tho National (lovern-
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big lawsuit, to break ietn up. bid J11",,1"'0 ;Prt. wore strong
you over hear of such nonsense before? iln lllelr P!"lui Rleheson was "un.
New Jersey, New Yorlt and even the accountable" the caie would not be st.b.
District of Columbia, alio, through Con-1 milted to the Council at to-morrow's
grc;s, and other .States, pats those int'.on.
laws to create the holding company,! At her home In Jlyannts this state
nnd the holding rompany. a you know.-'ment was given out by Avis Llnnell's
is a company wmc.i nnms a wji.ih lot
ot inner rorp irai.ons n reparato i
strings and manages thrm a.! as a unit.'
, "And tlien the Ho1. eminent t'.ng-- a
suit usa. nt them, one tifte.- ihe nine.,
and expends money, and n nv and t mi!
efds In ' irenklng ' up. an 1 mak.-x
a terrll'le polltleil nu.s" a'ut i Wnfti
at. I cay, they are ;.'! nrgtinUnd .in ler
statules that cou' I u repealiMl If we
i did not want them.
J "Onn President Marled that business
J of bringing lawsuits iigalnst the trusts
and he was aucceedid by another, who
stepped Into his shoes to carry out his
'policies, or 'my policies' as they were
, called by himself. And It seems to me
' he has carried them out pretty far.
And now thoy are rivalling each other
to see which of them, on account of
this great work, Is most fit to b the
rrciidint ovtr again,
The rrr. lUbllihln
lark VturliO.
RICHE ON TAKEN
TO DEATH CELL,
ALL HOPEIS GONE
Murderer Quietly Transferred
to the State Prison This
Afternodn.
SANE, SAY ALIENISTS.
Only One Is Believed to Have
Said He is Not Ac
countable. HOSTON. May H.-Clarence V. T.
Itlchroon, the former mlnlsten under
sentonce to be electrocuted next week
for the murder of Miss Avis Llnnell,
was removed from tho Suffolk County
Jail this afternoon to the Btato Prison,
ltlcheson nas taken to Charlentown In
the dosed prison van of the Jail by
Sheriff John Qulnit at 3.22 o'clock. This
se?nis to end all hope that he may es
cape the death chair.
Reports from the last two alienists
who examined tHo former mlntfter have
ni" y" l""fn l",n,,e'1 ,0 Gor- KoM" Thraa
f them have reported, but the Governor
has refused to make thn reports public,
When ltlcheson left the J a II he Wa.L
nanacuneu. .io--Artflr"towte. me jail
clorki wllo CjlIrt omcir j , Mc.
.,,.. . , , . ,
h nd . Dem" Sh,rlfr 1 ,,mund
""' rode Inside t!ie van wjth ths
condemned man. On the seat beslds the
driver was She'rlff g'tiliin'.
When Itlrhe.nn i,n5,,i in ,h
yard of tht Jail he kept his head bowed
hl" f'tu'" M not be seen by
thf outside the gate. He was dressed
a blue serge coat anil gray trousers
and wore a black derby hat. t'pward
uf SKI persons were on the street out-
"'de the J. II at the tlmo the vnn left,
iThero was no demonstration,
, It Is known Mat the leport of only
one alienist ao far contained any doubt
i of ltlchuJon being "accountable." Should
I the two remaining reports side with the
majority, Itlcheson's fnto will be sealed.
for Uov. Foss then might not iiven su
mlt tho matter to tho Kxecutlvc Council.
As evidence of Rlchcson's alonder
council, i seen in a resume of xtj
votea the same Council has taken on
commutation of death sentences ani
their Individual feelings In such cases,
Couno,or KAKalA u. CoUil)H nf oMo '
Hva thn Oovernor'a Council should
never Interfere with the course of th.
law. It therefore Is believed that the
Council's vote would be 7 to 2 against
ltlcheson should Oov. Fosa refer ths
case.
Oov. Fos admitted to-day there were
conflicting opinions In the three reports
jubmltted to him by tlui alienists. This
means that at lemt one of tho expert
believed Rleheson "unaccountable" when
that the report of v. I.. Vernon Hr!gji.
the llrsi allenl't w ho c.arutiu t ltlcheson.
volce'l ttiu opinion that whllo ltlcheson
was a moral degenerate, the methol of
his murder of Avis l.lnnvll und !iU sub.
sequent cool plans to tvade teiiponsl-
hlllty indl'-atcd that ho was "account
ible" and could legally and morally be
hold to account.
The (lovernor declined to be quote!
directly, but made It plain that unless
motnor!
"Let Clarsnce Rleheson sscaps
the death chair and the world
wouldn't seem Juut right z hsvs
prayed to feel rlrht, and know In
my heart I am not wrong- when I
sv Bicheson ohculil pay for his
crime. I would say the same If tt
was ancther woman's daughter,
rurther then this 1 cannot talk
about the case,"
Tnft Scores In Tennessee.
NASUVII.IjB, Tenn., May ll.-Taft
support ts 'n tho State Convention to.
day scart'J In the first come.it with the
Itfoaavel: men, when roster V. Drown,
fovrner Attorney-Central of Torto RUo,
w aaiad uautr chilrman.
NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1912.
Wreckage of Cars in Rear-End Collision
at 238th Street Subway Station Platform
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Ring on Severed Hand Only
Cliie to Identity of Victim at
149th Street Station..
As n northbound subway train was
I'liteilng tht etatlon at One Hundred
and Forty-ninth street and Third ave
nue at 3.40 o'clock this afternoon n man
to whom noltody had paid any particu
lar attention Jumped or fell from the
platform to tho track uetween tho sec
ond nni thild cars nf the train. Thn
wheels of two cars parsed over lilm,
cutting off his head and Ids right h.ind,
the latter mmber being found after the
removal nf tho body, wedged under the
third rail.
Tho station at One Hundred and
Forty-ninth street Is a transfer polm
from th" 1. and buth platform Here
crowded at the time or the oi lire:
llnlf n doneii women weie overcn'iie md
.Mrs, Sadie .Inhlnon of No. MI3 Firm
avenue, who was a passenger mi the
train ami saw the man ills ippear be
tween the cars so close at hand that
Mio might luivo tiiuchul hlni. " ot
pletely overeome. Mrs. .Ioii.s,., ai h
her little daughter, was staud'ng on t e
front platform of thn thlnl cir. lt.og
for thu train to stop. Thn guaiil w.u
on the rear platform of the m-ioihI ir
and had Just opened the dour ami
railed, the stutlnn. His b.n iv was turned
to the space between tho two .;ars.
According to Mrs, Johison. the man
aectiH'd to dive between tne cars to the
rails, Hhe uttered u stream that was
heard through the station, and the
guard pulled the emergency brake, stop,
ping the train so suddenly that all
standing passengers uen thrown.
M':i. Jo .Ikoii continued t scream, and
1 h'T cries were taken up by nthei worn
'en. I'i. l.einan o'Hrien, on .luty at tho
IitomIiu' on the ui f. re. hc inl I e up.
roar, and ran down Into the ciiM-n.
I.i a I ill ik thri,. wax a nun under tlie
train, he Niimmunrd an .iiiiIjiiI.iikk f,uin
I.llirolu Uospital,
When Dr, Fieston, the niii'iuUnte 'ir.
geon, Hill veil rallioail einployeen were
u novliu the holy from under the rear
truck of tilt: fourth car. Mrs Jnhlsnn
was In such a Hate of hysteria that It
was found necesnry to remove her to
a drug store iip.iUli.-'.
Tho only eue to the Idcntltj of the
mm who met bl ileith under the
wheels In a ring on tlir.A-nred right
hind. Ko paper utr-s' sund In the
TMARE
She Awakes From Dream to
Find Aunt Dead in Ad
joining Room.
Mis, Minnie .Mack, tho young wife r
Charles Mack, a prosperous market
gardener living on Uayvlew avenue, Se
caucus, N. J., was murdered In her bed
room early to-day by robbers, who
looted the Iwuse and . mpted to pry
open n safe.
The crime nils committed between 2
and i 3) n'ciock this morning, and a
niece of the victim slept through the
deperato struggle that went on In th
iidjoliilug bedroom. The slayers stulTd.l
handkerclefs down the young woman'!
tlirout and then strangled her to death
with a corse' cover and "trips toin
f,-n:n her nUnt drees.
Two I'ollsh farm hand", discharge i
by Mack a week ago, were seen In the
vicinity of the farm houn Met nli-ht.
Chief (if I'ollcu Jacob Schmidt of H. -caucus
leal lied.
It was about 1.30 o'clock lb!-, morn-
Ing when tho husuand of the murdered
. woman sol out with his two market
wagons for New York. His wife had
been In bed turns hours und he klaseo
her goodby as he left. About three
hours later Minnie Keirn. tho seventeen-year-old
niece, of Mrs, Mack,
auoke with a start In the small room
adjoining thu bedroom oc jp.ed by her
uncle and sunt. She had had a terri
fying nightmare.
FEARFUL DREAM AWAKES HER
TO DISCOVER CRIME,
"A terrible fear pressed up n me Ilk -I
a gieat weight," stld the young gi I
'to Chief of I'ollce Schmidt. 'Hay was
'jus: breaking and all the ror:ers nerj
crowing; but I felt something terrible
must have happened, 1 couldn't hear
a sound In the house and I Juid no'.
I been conscious of any sound outside
my 'Imams, since I had gone to bed
' al in o'clock. It nit all I could do,
A.-iei. 1 ti'j fully awake, to cry out
IA.ii. M.r.tile, Aunt Minnie" I listened
J
(ConUaueil on flewp Vit .l
GIRL S NIGH
REVEALS MURDER
OF KIN BY ROBBERS
20 PAGES
Staff Photographer.)
F
SAVE BURIED TOTS
Cave-In of Sand Bank Covers
Three Children and One Is
Expected to Die,
With their Tiands torn and bleeding,
two mothers, fru.tlo with suspuiMo.
bin lowed tbolr way tlnnUKh u live-root
j,and bank, to-day. to rescue three
burled children. All wero tuken out
alive, though seriously Injured. Onn uf
tho boys Is "expected to die.
Albert Kehn. aged five, of No. PI
Ornnger street, Corona, Long Iilind;
Kdward Wild, aged four, of No, id
Oranger street, and James Morrlllo,
aged six, of Falivlow avenue, were
playing on a batik about VJ) feet from
the Kehn boy's homo, n
l.lttle Albert Kehn, with a toy shovel,
dislodged a lodge of oarth, which
iT'i-liod down upon aim, cJlolug the
nlhor two . h Idr. ii down under four or
rive fee' it' sill I, Ki'tvrl iitnl roeK'.
Mri, Jmeplilii" Ivehn, mother of Al-
l.eri. heard t ie i'Mo'II. She lo'iked from
it wliidon of lief Iiiiiiik and saw that t.io
ihiee .hlldren had dls-ippeired, Rush
ing t , the spot. .Mrs. Kobn attacked th
xit nil bank with her barn hands, cryliw
for help at tho sime time.
Thougii her hands were cruelly torn,
shn scraped away th earth and und
for two fet, where she cam,, upon tlui
body nf James .Morrll'o. Tho child was
unconscious, She dragged the lad out
and laid htm alongside thn pit, burrow
ing deeper with her biru hands for the
other children.
Mrs. Kehn's cries were heard hy Mr.
Mary Wild, mother cf tho Wild boy.
She hurried to tho pit with a shovel
and began digging frantically. Hurled
under four feet of sand and stone, he
found the body of her son, lying face
downwurd. She dragged h.ni from tht
earth and lushed with him lo her home.
Mis Kehn elzed the s love! In her
bleeding hands and dug deeper, until
she emiie upon the lH,d. of her nop.
burled flvo feet deep, He Aai uncou
. ious and Inrnly breathln-'
Dr. Kdwln Klein attended the thre
ehtldien He found the Injuries nf th
Morrlllo boy were not io serious. Ci.
ward Wild, though seriously, "lit and
bruised, will recover Tan Kehn ohlM'n
condition, however, ho found to bo very
serious,
ticket orrirr.
For til C'oi.tol-r, i mttt.l, SmUi Amirtrtn tnl
jliin.i1l 91. .'t..,i 'Irt.. lr.rtllri' cA.c.i uj
moise . t,r, ll.'tj. i.-i.; dicU ujoi
n.a 0 tii'l ''J.i Tl, lVorl lVttil Uuictu
AtfJ P'lilt'tf lVa-lli llultaiaf f.J'ot T!,tj
JU, Z. leUaeae Stduua iOOU, ;t
WILD SUBWAY TRAIN
RAMS CROWDED CARS
F
OURTEEN ARE HURT
j
Switching Motorman Runs Past Sig
nal at Speed Into Rear End of
Eight-Car Train at 238th
Street Station.
FIVE WOMEN ARE AMONG
VICTIMS IN THE SMASH-UP
Passengers Flung From Seats and
Against Partitions and Flying ;
Glass Cuts Many.
Fourteen passengers were injured, one mortally, in a rear end
collision to-day between a train of two empty cars and a southbound
U-assenger-rraln of eight cars on
the subway at the Two Hundred and Thirty-eighth street station.
THE INJURED.
BBSironuw, oaomoa, Ko. s Xait ronrth street, Manhattan; AjUtf tar.
rordham Xospltal of Internal lnlurlts.
WtVLtHO, VTZZMAM, Vo. 3134 Amsterdam areaue; la rordham Xoptt4l
oondltlon serious. j
OKBHir, JOSH, Wo. 3 Ipeacer place, Toniere.
BAX.X,, MB. MABTXir, Mo. 641 Kepperhan avenue, Tonkern.
ABXX.&A, MMU. JOKK. Bo. 03 Park Kill avenue, TonkeU.
BBOWW, BOM. JAMX8, Mo. 7 Xiocnst Kill Terrace, Tonkers.
BDBOXAOX, JOSEPH, Mo. 413 Bast Blxty-fourth street.
BLI,, OKABXBI, Mo, 307 Orchard avenue, Tonkers,
KAVB, Baa MAKT, Mo. OS Poet street, Bronx.
BtXAVOBXXK, B. J., Mo. 331 Warburton avenue, Tonkers.
MOBBXBOM, B. X Maple Helgbte.
TAPTB, KM. J., Btone avonne, Tonkers.
UBMXTXB, -WXX.X.IAK J Mo. 330 West Porty-ieventh street, Kanbattan.
LILLY, JOXM, Mo. 73 Hyde avenue, Tonkers.
PARIS AUTO BANDITS
IN ANOTHER BATTLE
WITH THE POLICE.
Gamier, Co -Chief With Uonnot,
Surrounded With a Confed
erate in a Suburb.
I'AltIS, May II, Another battle be
tween the. iollc and the automobile
bandits who recently terrllled Paris U
In prugusk at Nocnt-sur-Matne, four
miles to the east of the city.
tlarnler, the eo-cnlet Willi iiouinii, who
. ... . .. ,1. ...mllt.l lllliri .It L'llO.fc-
wus Kiiieu ,ni - ..... .,, iuo iivtniiuuniuiiu, jisu ne
sy.lo-ltul on Apill I'i "fur a desperate, muck to his post ho would probably have
fight has been sjuriuiin.lt U with a con-, been killed, as the front platform com
federate named Vallet In a building I purtment was completely demolished.
near the rallroaa.
I.lk, llonnot and his confederate
Dubois, tho bandits (lurnler und Vallet
are llirhtllig desperately for their lives.
They are keeping up a continued fusil
ladn with rllles from the windows of
the building, firing on the police and
townspeople surrounding the place. A
police sergeant bus been wounded
Louis l.eplne. the Prefect of Police
of Paris, with a liu'gn body of police
men hae l"ft headquarters h irr.edly
l-l motor iarH for the scene of toe lit; it.
BaseballScoresTo-Day
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
AT PITTSBURGH.
GIANTS
2 0
I'lTTSUURGH
2 1
AT ST. LOUIS.
BROOKLYN
0 0
ST. LOUIS-
0 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AT NEW YORK.
DETROIT
2 0
HIGHLANDERS-
0 0
AT WASHINGTON.
CLEVELAND
0 0 0 0 0 0
WASHINGTON
o4 0 0 0 0 0
FOR BASEBALL SEE PAGE 2.
PRICE ONE CENT,
the Broadway elevated extension of
f with the exception of Drendimer n.'.
' r..iuM . ...
...v. ,,,., ie nrecK victims were able to
Pioceed to their homes after they had
been treated by the ambulanco ur
geone or at the hospital. I'aisengere euf
rerod injuries, through the length of the
train, from broken glass and from being
hurled against the partitions In the
middle of the side door cars.
Illanie for the collision Is fixed by the
management of the subwny on John H.
I.uknsb, the motorman ot the two-car
train. Iln Is said to have run pst '
signal. When ho saw a collision was
Inevitable ho leaped from Ids compart
ment at the front of the forward car
oai-ic into the cdr, and then made him.
H.lf Mf'tvnn In .1... 1
RAMMED CROWDED TRAIN AT
STATION.
The accident oocurred at lOtl o'clook,
when the ten-cur express trains were be
Ing shortened to eight-car trains, after
the morning rush. It Is customary to
run the ten-car trains to the Van Cort
land Park terminal and there uncouple
tho two cars at the northerly end of
ea.di train. Thee ears are run down In
two-ear trilns to tho Two Hundred and
T.iirty.elghtU street station behind tha
e Khi-c.ir train mid switched ult to thj
Two Hundred and Fortieth street tta
t..,ii jar.U.
l.ukanVa duty was to run these two
car trains from the terminal down to
a snitch ut tho Two Hundred and
Thlrty.elg.ith street station und bad:
them Into tho yirds, It was bis habit
to follow the eight-car train down ut a
stittlcient distance, to reach tho switch
after tho leading train had taken on
passengers ut tho Two Hundred and
riilrt,-oljthih street station.
The eight-car tuln. crowded with per.
eons from tho suburbs north of tha
terminal, was standing at the Two Hun
dred and Thirty-eighth street station
uhen I.ukash ian down with his two"
oars to-Jay. Ho ran past the signal so
to stop him nithout lacl.,n? speed, and
It Is supposed that he lost control ot
the bt.iko tuech.in'.s n At any rate, the
two-ear train sma.-htd Into the rear car
or the eight-car tia'n with for 'o enough
to wreek the to tars act'ully engaged
Hi tho collision 'ina break window In.
the other nine wrs.
llrendlmtn was In thu extreme end
of the last cur of the eight-car train
and was caught :u a mass uf wreckage.
Ilesldes serious cuts tv.d outward
bruises h, sustained Internal lujurlen
of a grave nature. However, tt was
net thought that his hurts wero likely
M prove fatal until he was examlntd
ut the horjytul and Ilia true condition
was revrairu. A message was then,
osat to the .Coroner" otllce o( tkf'
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