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1928 Times Square derailment
During the evening rush hour on August 24, 1928, an express subway train derailed immediately after leaving the Times Square station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. Sixteen people were killed directly, two died later, and about 100 were injured. It remains the second-deadliest accident on the New York City Subway system, after the Malbone Street Wreck.
==Accident==
At 5:09 p.m. on Friday, August 24, 1928, the last two cars of a ten-car downtown express train, consisting of all-steel cars, were derailed when a faulty switch moved, and the ninth car hit a wall and pillars on either side of the track〔Robert B. Shaw, ''Down Brakes: A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices in the United States of America'', London: P. R. Macmillan, 1961, , p. 429.〕〔Thomas R. Brooks, ("Subway Roulette: The Game is Getting Dangerous" ), ''New York Magazine'', June 15, 1970, p. 41].〕〔〔Alan Black, ''Urban Mass Transportation Planning'', McGraw-Hill series in transportation, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN 9780070055575, p. 222.〕 and split in half; the rear was telescoped by the last car while the front remained attached to the train and was dragged for , when it and the eighth car turned over. Short-circuiting started a fire.〔Associated Press, ("Hold Man in Tube Tragedy" ), ''San Jose News'', August 25, 1928, p. 1.〕〔Associated Press, ("Man Failure Blamed for Subway Disaster" ), ''Reading Eagle'', August 26, 1928, p. 1.〕〔Associated Press, ("14 Persons Killed and Over Hundred Injured in Terrible Wreck on New York Subway" ), ''Ottawa Citizen'', August 25, 1928, p. 1.〕 A witness in one of the damaged cars spoke of hearing "a terrific grinding noise" then seeing "the car behind ours rip right through a steel pillar".〔"14 Persons Killed and Over Hundred Injured in Terrible Wreck on New York Subway", ''Ottawa Citizen'', (p. 18 ).〕 Morris De Haven Tracy of the United Press wrote an account of the long feared disaster on the New York subways that had left the city "still dazed":(eighth car ) "split the switch," and before the passengers jammed within it could raise their cries of terror it was skidding half sideways down the track.
A hundred feet farther on it crashed into one of the great steel pillars which keep the street above from tumbling in upon the tunnels.
It sheered off the pillar, tore loose from the forward seven cars, split itself in two and part of it hurtled forward, tossing passengers against stanchions onto the track, under the wheels of the cars, against the sides of the tunnel, and piling them up in masses on what was left of the car floor.〔Morris De Haven Tracy, United Press, ("New York Has Huge Subway Smash: Rush Hour Adds to Horror" ), ''San Jose News'', August 25, 1928, p. 1.〕
Sixteen people were killed on the spot〔Tina Kelley, ("City's Worst Transportation Disasters" ), ''The New York Times'', October 16, 2003.〕 and 100〔 or more〔("$50-a-Week Man Gets Blame for $2,500,000 Subway Wreck" ), ''The Miami News'', August 26, 1928, p. 12.〕 injured. Additional victims died the following day〔 and on the 26th,〔 as did Jennie Lockridge, an actress who had had a heart attack after seeing victims' bodies.〔Associated Press, ("Actress Dies at Sight of Subway Accident Victims" ), ''The Deseret News'', August 27, 1928, p. 1.〕〔Associated Press, ("May Arrest 2 After Subway Crash in N.Y." ), ''Ellensburg Daily Record'', August 27, 1928, p. 1.〕 One victim was misidentified; the man returned home two hours before his funeral was scheduled to start.〔Shaw, p. 430.〕 It was the worst accident on the New York City subways since the Malbone Street Wreck in 1918.〔〔
Track maintenance workers had discovered the faulty switch where a storage track branched off south of the platform, but decided not to spike (immobilize) it.〔 The train had been held in the station while repairs were made, and was packed with approximately 1,800 passengers; an empty train was first sent over the switch without incident.〔
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