Sentence examples for subway wreck from inspiring English sources
The steamship Slocum sinking in New York Harbor in 1904; the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911; and the Malbone Street subway wreck across from Prospect Park in 1918.
Why not re-examine the city's worst subway wreck, the 1918 Malbone Street crash in Brooklyn, which killed, by most accounts, 97 people?
THREE recent works of history, in these excerpts, provide vivid glimpses of a bygone New York: the 1950's Brooklyn of "The Honeymooners," the Revolutionary War household of George Washington and a disastrous subway wreck of 1918.
RICHARD E. MOONEY Upper East Side What caused the Times Square subway wreck that occurred on Aug. 24, 1928, an accident that killed 16 people, and one whose cause was never definitively determined, in part because all the train workers involved denied any wrongdoing?
Flooded subways and wrecked New Jersey boardwalks got the priority -- at least from news cameras.
It's easy to ignore the plight of polar bears far to the north; less easy to be inattentive when a storm knocks out the lights in Manhattan, floods the subways and wrecks New Jersey coastal towns, as happened a year ago with Superstorm Sandy. .
In "Train Wreck: The New York Post's Subway Cover", the Times columnist David Carr writes about the photograph — and the response to the photograph: "It all happened so fast".
Historically, however, many of the world's worst train accidents on sharp curves — the 1918 Malbone Street wreck in the New York City subway system, which killed at least ninety-three people (figures vary), or the Metro derailment in Valencia, Spain, in 2006, which killed forty-three — were simply caused by the trains going too fast.
It goes without saying that nothing on the planet justifies wrecking the subways and harming commuters.
"I am not quitting here," Mr. Koulmentas said as he watched insurance agents, contractors and subway engineers scurry around the diner in the hours before the wrecking crews arrived.
