Hideous Scenes Underground:
Cars Thrown on Wrong Line New York, Aug. 24.
Twenty persons were killed and many injured in 2 Tube train derailment at Times Square station this evening. Times Square is in the [centre of the business and theatrical world of New York. Police sur rounded the station to prevent news paper reporters from entering it to obtain details of the disaster.
The train was packed as it was the rush hour for passengers. The current was cut off-as a result of the derailment, bringing to a stand-I the whole of the West-side underground system, resulting in tremendous overcrowding of all stations. The police reserves were fealled out and every ambulance in the city summoned for emergency duty, It is known that over 150 persons wore injured in addition to a score of fatalities when a Brooklyn train with its nine coaches crammed to their utmost capacity was leaving Times Square—the most congested station in the subway cystem—at "rush hour" at five evening.
°'A' defective switch caused the rear cat t0 £0 on the wrong line,
ears were the Tesult of Which shattered to smithereens the Inst four After the smash the station, which was packed with city workers on their way home, was transformed Into. a veritable mad-baure, Men and women fought like animals to escape.
Police swarmed on to the plate form and added <0 the screaming for uld hones, while from the tunnel verberated the shrieks of the dying fas. white-coated surgeons " beside Dlack-faced firemen struggled extricate the bodies pinned in the wreck—Reuter,
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