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II Li .44 m. 1 POSTSCRIPT I NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928. 20 PAGES. THREE CENTS MkSfSWfcfiM 13 DEAD, 95 INJURED; SUBWAY SCENE OF HORROR Snarled Remains of Cars in Wreck HOMICIDE CHARGE IS MADE AS MAYOR FORCES HEDLEV TO BRING IN I. R.

T. EXPERT itevf- SHEARS 5-! -n ft :1 PHOTO 7 Remains of the wrecked were removed. A DEAD Bl'RKE, JAMES, 19, 210 Avenue In wood, L. I. CONE, JOSEPH, 28, address unknown.

FRYE, GEORGE, 35, Rockville Centre, L. I. HAINES. MARY, 32, 57 Linden West New Brighton, S. KANE, ANNA, 27; died in Polyclinic Hospital this morning from a fractured skull.

McGROARITY, ANNE, 25, of 20 Rem- sen died in Polyclinlo Hospital this morning from a fractured skull. MENGt'S. VINCENT, 31, 17S Trim- Me st, Clifton, died on way to St Vincent's Hospital. QIIGLEY, Mrs. ANN, 40, widow, of 1043 Bergen st.

RABINOWITZ, IRVING, 23, 322 E. 91st Brooklyn; died in Bellevue Hospital. WEATHERFORD, Mrs. ALICE, 55, of 167 Hicks st. WHITMAN, MABEL, 30, 225 Eastern Parkway; died this morning in Bellevue Hospital.

ZIPS, Mrs. MARION 29, of 560 W. 144th st, Manhattan. ZIPS, HERBERT, 7, her son. INJURED BROOKLYN.

AFPELBAl'M, BARRY, 8.1. 350 Thmtfor poiiibU frmctur knll, Infernal Injurlef; tm Poly tin la HosplUl. BLACK, MARION, f3( 60 Ploetpplt In Irrnal Injuries, contusions arms and legs; Uken home. BLOCK, CECILIA, 20, 1 1 OS Rutland contusions of back, Internal Injuries; Uken home. CHERLIN, LOt IS.

S3, ftfil Araboy con-tuitons and lacerations of scalp and body and posslblt frac art of ribs; taken home. FINKLLMAN, IRVING, SO, 603 Logan lacerations of head; Uken home. GOLDSTEIN, DAVID, S3, 30 Park contusions of back. Internal Injuries; Uken home. HANSON, ELIAS, 83, 2.1S Pearl possible Internal Injuries; taken home.

HARM EL, PAIL, 22, 414 Sterling Ucera-tlons of scalp; taken home. HAV1LAND, EDITH, 23, 203 Clermont lacerated face, contusions of the back and legs; Uken home. KELTER, JOHN. 23, 241 Houston contusions of both knees; taken boms. KRATNER.

JOHN, 27, 71 Willow multiple contusions of face, hands and body, possible Internal Injuries; Uken to Bellevue Hospital. MASCARRI, THOMAS, 28, 1R7 Butler contusions of the back and possible Internal Injuries; Uken home. NA1R, JOSEPH 84, 1633 E. 01st shock, contusions and lacerations of face and body; Uken to Knickerbocker Uospl-Ul. NEWMAN, EDWARD, 4ft.

1334 Park possible Internal Injuries, contusions of back; Uken home. BARNEY, 30, 143 E. 9Uh contusions of back and Internal Injuries; Uken home. SMITH, JIX1CS, 10, Myrtle contusions or richt Ii-g; Uken home. STEARN, MORRIS, 31, 679 Montgomery contusions of bark; Ukrn home.

VAN ZAND ANT, CHARLES, 10, ftH3 Lafay ette contusion of right eye, possible fracture of skull; Uken to French Hot' pital. WISKY. JENNIE, 30, 1000 Lincoln nos sible Internal Injuries, contusions of back; Uken home. HARVEY. 1IU1AN.

ool Eastern Park way; contusions of both legs; to New York Hospital. KAMM1LLE TED. 34, 17-M) 7lh st. sprained ankle; to Harlem Hospital. KEANE, ANNA.

313 5th leg amputated, serious; In Polyclinic Hospital. KRKl'TNKR. JOHN, 21, 71 Willow In Bellevue Hospital. O'HARA. MISS MARY, 3.1.

176 Prospect pi. at French Hospital, serious. JRKE. 712 Crown lacera tions and abrasions of head and cheek treated at Bellevue Hoslptal and went home. LONG ISLAND.

CH4NIN. AARON 1XO Bearh 29th tr me re; fractured skull; in renin. Hot' blial. KEN LEY, CHARLES, 3.1, 10fl Rockaway Rnckaway Beach; fractured shoulder; to New York Hospital. SIEBOLD, ELIZABETH, 10, 3H3 Beach 87th Rockaway; In Bellevue Hospital.

MCRRAY, ERICK, 2ft, Box Central Isllp; left leg amputated, fracture of left Continued on Page 2. Picture shows the workmen ocreams or rain in uam Ring in Ears of Witnesses To Underground Horror Survivors in Riven Car Describe Terror as Third Rail Great Courage Displayed By Victims at Hospital; Man Aids OwnAmputation "Don't Call My Home to Worry My Folks Unless I Die," Pleads Patient Before End Comes Cheerful "Hello" From Mangled Youth Brings Tears to Mayor's Eyes. Belches Fire Noise of Ripping Steel Fills Tube sengers Feel Car Breaking in Two. Coach of Packed New Lots Express Jumps Rails at Times Sq. in Rush Hour.

By WILBUR E. ROGERS. A flash of brilliant red and yel low flame, a dull rumbling roar, then screams and shouts and then total darkness and New York experienced what it has been fearing for years, its first tragedy in the subway. It was just south of the Times Square Station, about 100 feet from the southern end of the platform, that a 10-car New Lots express train was wrecked just as last night's rush hour was starting. Seven of the cars were safe.

The eighth was slashed into two parts, sliced as cleanly as if a giant razor had been pulled through its center. The ninth piled up, partly on top of it. The tenth was apparently un harmed. A clogged switch caused it all a switch that had held firmly in its position as two 10-car trains rumbled over it. It had held, too, while seven cars of the third train passed.

And it held as the first trucks of the eighth car roared over it. Crushed Against the Pillars. But then it slipped. The truck In the rear of that car swerved over. It slashed across the tics.

Then the whole car banged from the track, piled against the pillars and was snatterea into virtual ftalves wltn a broken, crushed pillar stickuig through it. On either side of that car was tragedy. Men. women and children were killed outright. They didn't have a chance in the crowded interior of a jammed rush-hour subway car.

With the first blinding crasn as the wheels of the car tore into the roadbed and Tinned up the third rail there had come a terrific roar. Then darkness. Men and women stumbled and fought across each other's bodies. There were screams from the badly hurt. There was shouting from other trains and from the passengers who had been thrown into blackness and terror on the cars ahead.

Thousands in Panic. Ten thousand people on trains that were suddenly stopped dead still from 72d st. down to Pennsylvania station shuddered in terror they couldn understand. Thev had heard the roar Some of them had seen the flash. But they didn't know what had happened.

To be gripped by terror and blackness in the subway was terrifying enough, but to hear the screams echoing through the dead ened tube must have been much worse. This train that was wrecked had left E. 186th st. at a little after 4:26 p.m. It was following, in the 7th ave.

section of the tube, a Flatbush train Just four minutes ahead. Frank Mccormick was driving it, and A. Shea was its conductor. Crowds at Times Square. So much for the facts.

It had come rolling on its way downtown, picking up crowds, but not large crowds, unlil it reacnea limes square, mere was filled quickly. It was estimated that 1,800 or 2.000 persons sat or stood crammed into its aisles as it pulled out. But now go back a few moments. It was a little after 5 o'clock when George King, a young switchman, something of a neophyte in the art of Continued on rage 2. "Don't call my home to worry the folks unless I die," Irving Rabinowitz, a young medical student, weakly told a nurse in the operating room at Bellevlue Hospital, as he himself laid out the instruments for the surgeons to amputate his two legs injured in The story of what happened in the tunnel at Times Square last night when a car jumped the track and was cut in half by a steel pillar, is a story of tragedy which fell suddenly on a jammed 3 IN EFFORT TO FIX AND BLAME Employee Says He Re ported Switch Out of Order Before W.

E. Baldwin, Interboro Rapid Transit Company switch man and maintenance-of-way ex pert, was arrested at 2:30 a.m. today, as the police and the Dis trict Attorney moved at top speed to fix the blame for the Times Square subway wreck of yesterday afternoon whieh killed 13 persons and injured from 95 to 125 others. The inquiry which led to Baldwin's arrest was directed in person by Mayor Walker and Police Commissioner Warren. Assistant District Attorneys McGcwan, Ryan and Mara of the Homicide Bureau were the representatives of that office, and all night long worked with the police in their effort to find the cause and fix the blame.

Hcdley Brings Man In. It was Frank Hedley, president or the I. R. who flnalv nnvftuvri Baldwin. But he brought the awitch- man in only alter Mayor Walker had sent him out of the W.

30th st. police station with InsDectora Couehlln nH Bolan, who were under instructions to see to it that Hedley found his man. Then, after more than an hour of rigid questioning, Baldwin was I'imiKeu wun nomiciae ana was Held for arraignment later today. Baldwin uvea ai rung ureal KUls, 8. Baldwin Balky at First Baldwin was far from talkative when he was brought to the W.

30th st. station, Police Commissioner War ren sata. "When we got Baldwin," he explained, "it was a hard thing to get him to talk. In fact, he wouldn't talk until we got Mr. Hedley.

Then, and only then, he began to talk and give us Information." Banton Takes Charge. District Attorney Joab H. Banton returned to New York last night from Saratoga, where he had been vacationing, and came to his office early today to take charge of the Investigation of the wreck being carried on by his office. He said that Assistant District Attorney McGowan, Richard Gonzales, a clerk, and a stenographer of the Homicide Bureau were working until 3 a.m. today taking statements of passengers and employees regarding the wreck.

Later in the day, he said, he would reveal the progress of the investigation. Warren Gets Probe Report." Police Commissioner Warren announced this morning that he had received a preliminary report of the wreck from Deputy Chief Inspector Bolan, In charge of the police at the scene, and that he would transmit it immediately to Mayor Walker, Bolan Is continuing his investigation, Warren said. "Of course, the investigation ts up to District Attorney Banton," said the Commissioner, "but the police will co-operate and do all they ran to assist in placing the responsibility." Praises Work of Police. He had been at home only five minutes last night when he was uiformed of the wreck by telephone by Deputy Chief Inspector Valentine, the Commissioner said. He Jumped into his automobile, he continued, and hurried to the scene, where he found most his subordinates hard at work.

"I'm very proud of the poltM," he said. "They did excellent work. Within a few minutes of the crash, a larne number of police and thre5 emergency wagons with full cres were on the scene ready to do all they could Mr. Hedley arrived at the. I.

R. T. olUces, ID Broadway, at 10 30 am. today. He had no comment to make.

"I don't know whether there is The Feature Section of Today's Eagle Is Combined With the Main News Section. PROBES SPEEDED Hi-Mi cutting away the wreckage he subway wreck. The opera- tion was performed without ether. He failed to rally and died a few-minutes later, He lived at 222 E. 91st st and was In his senior year at Long Island College Medical School.

Two fellow students were riding with him at the time. Rabinowitz was a graduate of Columbia University. He celebrated his 25th birthday a few days ago. Mrs. Bertha Bronson, 26, of the Hotel Jackson, 137 W.

45th Manhattan, was rushed to the French Hospital in a serious condition. Surgeons decided an operation was necessary but she refused to permit it until her husband was notified. Sidney Bronson, the husband, arrived at the hospital some time later and gave his consent. They have been married two years. Victim Carried $5,000.

George Ford, about 35, address unknown, was taken to the French Hospital unconscious, suffering from Internal and other injuries. It was necessary to amputate his left leg. In his pockets hospital officials found $5,000 In cash. Eric Murray of Central Islip, had his left leg so terribly crushed It had to be amputated in the French Hospital, While the operation was being performed Mayor Walker entered the operating room. The young man looked up, smiled ana cauea out: "Hello there, Jimmy." The Mayor had tears in his eyes but he called back a bright hello.

Ted L. Camille of 1750 57th was in the ninth car at the time of the wreck. His left leg and head were hurt. Aimlessly, he wandered around the dismal underground passage. He passed the wreck several times and trod the subway path as far as the Pennsylvania Station and back again.

A full hour after the wreck, a policeman saw him coming up the 40th st. entrance of the subway. "Are you hurt?" the cop asked. "Where am asked the dazed young man. He was taken home.

Patrolman William A. Boyd was the second member of the police force to reach the scene. He was on patrol on Broadway and heard there was a wreck In the subway. He Jumped through a manhole at 41st st. and Broadway.

Commander Byrd Aids Rescue. Commander Richard E. Byrd arrived at the station about three quarters of an hour after the accident. He was admitted and offered to render any help possible. The most gruesome sight relief workers encountered was a decapitated boy Continued on Page J.

ACME with oxyacetylene torches. FOR JERSEY RALLY Clouds Threaten Hague's Turnout at Seagirt. Governor Guest at Ball. By JOHN BILLINGS JR (Staff Correspondent of The Eagle.) Spring Lake, N. Aug.

-25 Under skies heavy with the threat of rain. Governor Smith prepared to receive today the formal homage of a well-disciplined Jersey Democracy. As the guest of Governor A. Harry Moore, the Democratic Presidential nominee and his party were to go to the National Guard encampment at Sea Girt shortly after noon for the political rally carefully planned and staged by Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. Governor Smith and his family arrived here at the New Monmouth Hotel shortly after 6 last night, after a three-hour motor ride which was one continuous demonstration.

Tunc and again his car was halted by crowds which broke police lines to swarm about him and cheer. Politically, his reception In the northern end or the State was all that the leaders could have asked. It was, in addition, quite spontaneous. Compared to Lincoln. To give today's aflalr a truly political flavor, Senator Edward I.

Edwards issued a long statement comparing Governor Smith to Lincoln. The Governor's pessimism about getting any real rest at this Jersey resort was well Justified. At the Governor's ball last night, where he was the star guest, the crowds pressed so thickly about him that he could hardly breathe. On one occasion he deserted the hotel for what he hoped would be a solitary walk in the night air. Instead another huge throng picked him up at the door of the hotel and dogged his steps with cheers and applause.

That class and social lines cut into this campaign was demonstrated by the gathering at the Governor ball. Continued on Page 2. IN III I car from which the dead -Pas- L. NEWS WITH FEAR Grief Strikes Relatives as List of Identification Grows During Night. Many a family In Brooklyn and on Long Island last night waited with bated breath for further news of the subway disaster.

In most instances, their relatives returned home via taxi-cabs and street cars because of the tieup. Other homes were saddened as the list of the dead and injured grew. Among the best known of the Brooklyn victims of the disaster is Aaron H. Chanin, 29. of 635 E.

21st st. and 130 Beach 2iith Edgemere L. EL He Is the youngest brother of Henry L. and Irvin S. Chanin, wno.

as Chanin built the Roxy and the Chanin theaters and numerous large olfice buildings The injured man was employed by them as an as slstant superintendent of construc tion. Receives Fractured Skull. Young Mr. Chanin received a frac lured skull. At the French Hospital, where he was taken, he is under the cart of soecitlLsts retained by his brothers.

At the olllce of the latter, :85 Madison Manhattan, it was said today that Aaron is 'doing nicely," but hospital physicians re- agrde his condition as serious. Mrs. Alice Weatherford, 55, of 167 Kicks identified at the Bellevue morgue by her husband George, was returning homo from the theater. She had been with a woman friend rho took an uptown tram at 4Jd st. Mrs.

Wentherford. who came from Mississippi, had lived in Brooklyn for four years. Anne McGroarlly. 25, of 20 Remsen who died in the Myelinic Hospital from a fractured skull and Internal injuries, was a social service worker. When she did not leturn home for dinner last night at her customary hour, her sister, with whem fhe lived, became alarmed and called up several friends.

It was not until 11 o'clock, when she was notified by a newspaper, that she knew her sister had been killed in the subway accident. The funeral jvlll probably be held from St. Charles Borromeo R. C. Continued on Pare 11 1 BROOKLYN ANO FAMILIES All train that was speeding nearly'' 2,000 persons to their homes.

There were many stories told by the eye witnesses to the tragedy. But some of the most terrible stories have yet to be told, because they are the ones which come from those who were in that car as It crashed against the pillar. There can be little question that the doomed train did not make good time down from 72d st. That is because two trains went, somewhat haltinRly, over that switch beyond the Times Square Station. But take a composite of the eye witness stories, stories told ly Lawrence Kenney of 2 South Manhattan; by Oscar W.

Semple, of 131 Nagle by John W. Butts of 1107 Ocean Parkway. Brooklyn; by George Blanchard of Belleville, N. by William Dolan of 487 St. John's Brooklyn, and by David Rabinowitz of 585 Powell Brooklyn, a 16-year-old student in Franklin K.

Lane High School. Sparks Fly From Wheels. "The train gathered speed out of the station, but there were flashes under all the wheels," these eye witnesses said. "There was a sudden flash, then a heavy one. It was brilliant and yellow.

Then there was lots of smoke, and a bumping and grinding. The lights all went out. I tried to get out." That Is the story as It is told. It is not, of course, complete. But it tells something of the horror there, because all of the eye witnesses tell of the screaming and the shouting, Continued on Page 2.

sion, was accompanied by Tilden's Indefinite suspension from further competition as an amateur. The committee, announcing its decision in a lengthy statement, held that Tilden clearly had violated the plaver-writcr rule by his newspaper articles on the English championships this summer at Wimbledon where he was a competitor. The decision was Influenced by another article written by Tilden on July 17 In France. Friends Intimated that he would srek reinstatement at a meeting ol the Executive Committee next month. The bvlaws of the U.

S. L. T. A. provide fBr reinstatement of any sus pended player upon submission of evidence "satisfactorv" to the association's executive committee that re-lrstatement is merited.

The committee, in finding Tilden guilty, made it plain that his suspension from amateur competition docs not make lilrn a professional. TO OR! DEBATE WITH IT PRESENT Effecting Strong Organization His Chief Concern Now Instead of Issues. Washington, Aug. 25 IA) The first phase of his own campaign at an end. Herbert Hoover today reviewed the journey across the continent and the results It had produced.

Events during his absence from the National Capital had served to place the Prohibition Issue even farther to the front, subordinating, for the moment at least, the Farm Relief question, which was the high point of contention In the Republican Convention, Won't Debate at Prpwnt. Just when and where the Repu-llcan Presidential nominee will renew his discussion of the wet and dry issue has not yet been decided by him, rut it can be stated authoritatively that he has no present Intention of engaging In any debate with his Democratic opponent on that subject He regards the Issue as deflnltelv defined by the acceptance speeches with a clear-cut distinction drawn for the voters' retention of the Amendment In Its present form or Its modification to permit Stato option under State regulation. To Strengthen Organization. Close advisers of Hoover declare that the question, uppermost in the minds of the several hundred visitors from a dozen great farm States seemed to be that of effecting a strong party organization rather than of seekinj more specific details of the farm relief proposals that the standard bearer put forward in his aereptance address. These leaders made It clear, however, that much work remained to be done in the Northwestern States, particularly in South Dakota and Wisconsin, and there was some unrest in the other States.

Hoover has no intention of making another long trip until he starts back or California to cast his vote. TIE Kt'NRISIS TRAILS Tne 1928 FlBlr Automobile Oukle Include! new Five-color Toad Man of Long and. (11 In. wide bj 19 In. dfeu.

At KafU office tnd dealen. Quldt Ql mid. loc.j by null, tie. AVOID SMITH I Tilden to Ask Reinstatement After Amateur Tennis Ban Boston, Aug. 25 (VP) William T.

Tilden 2, barred from amateur tennis by a ruling of the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, said today that he will apply for reinstatement at the September meeting of the committee. In a statement given out here he said he resnted th Implication of th committee which "as much as called me a liar." The lanky Phlladclphlan, veteran of nine Davis Cup campaigns, six times holder of the national singles title and by many regarded as the ureatest tennis player of all times, was found guilty early today of violating the amateur player-writer rule of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. This vcrdtct. reached by unanimous vote of the 18 members of the association's executive committee after nearly six hours of discus What Judge Atwell Said The Eagle will publish on Sunday a complete verbatim report of Federal Judge Atwcll's criticism in the United States Court here of Lawyer F. R.

Scrri which has brought nationwide attention. This spectacular incident in a Volstead Act trial has been protested by Mr. Serri to Chief Justice Taft, and Congressmen and other lawyers have since backed up the complaining attorney. See Sunday's Eagle.