New York Subway Collapses by L. L. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1915

New York Subway Collapses

By L. L. C.

NEW YORK CITY has recently suffered two subway collapses. The first, which resulted in the death of seven and the injury of eighty-five, occurred September 23, and opened up Seventh Avenue for two blocks. The explosion which caused the collapse was thought to be due to gas or free dynamite. Three days later a second accident occurred, this time in Broadway at Thirty-eighth Street. Only one person was killed and three were injured. Commissioner William Hayward, of the Public Service Commission, after entering the excavation and studying the section which had caved in, is reported to have said:—

A slide of the rock was the cause of this accident. What caused the slide of rock cannot be said without further investigation. The rock in this part of Manhattan is frequently loose in structure, and the danger of a slide is always present and cannot be entirely avoided.

While New York City has not been visited by earthquakes, as has San Francisco, the former city has her own dangers, which do not differ so much in nature from those of the city at the Golden Gate.

L. L. C.