Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

A SINGULAR ACCIDENT.

A goaded Street Car Crashed by a Derrick —Three Persons Killed. A peculiar accident occurred in Brooklyn Tuesday, being the falling of a derrick fro ma new elevated railroad, now building, upon a street car passing beneath. The accident was due to the spreading of the rails. The car was crushed like an egg shell, and seventeen of the passengers were injured and four killed. Of those injured eight were employes of the road. The workmen were engaged in hoisting a girder in position when the accident occurred. Suddenly the whole apparatus began to tremble and the men, to their Horror, saw the entire mass go down, carrying six men with it. The accident was caused by a total collapse of which, it is said,was made to raise too great a weight by careless managers, and it came down with a terrible thud that made mince meat ouLof the unfortunate beings who chanced to be directly under its way in the car.