New-York tribune., 1904-10-08
CALL ROAD DANGEROUS.
ALL HAD BEEN DRINKING.
Mystery About Orruer of "Auto" in
Whose Wreck Three Died.

strange feature OF the automobile accident
in which three persons were killed and six in
jured early yesterday in Jerome-ave, when the
vehicle dashed an embankment and, over
turning on the New-York Central tracks, was
struck with its occupants pinned under It, by a
train, was the fact that the owner of the touring
car could rot be found. All those who were said
to own It denied that it was their property. The
revised list Of the dead and injured is as fol-
lows:
THE DEAD.
driver.
%s H 81 III! Ps H;8sa ~ sss. @ q .e5s
TTID INJURED.
DoRAN. Charles. %: gave fictitious address.
LIEvRE Mss Jeanette 10 No 2I62 F1f,h-are.; scalp
wounds and bruises.
q Mrs Bella Feres stroebel' coniusioas OF head
sPIEss. Moses 90 No III wes, one-hundrea thirty
Fordham Hospital
wADswoRTH. Mrs. Katherine 50: eye Gu, out, eoncus-
onuscns % q oadS Ioiham HosYita iD may %S
MURPHY Thomas. waiter srapioyed at Riverside ca
The testimony OF railroad men and 2olicemen,
as well as that Of surviving passengers goes to
show that the responsibility for the accident
lieved TO have been Under the influence OF liquor.
None the less, this is not the first accident at
this place. The coroner's office believes the
road itself is danger spot and win seek. If not
to have the road permanently closed tG OBJ
tain the erection OF a high wall and additional
illumination
According TO the coroner, there was an acci-
dent similar 10 the present one. although with
less serious consequences. some two weeks ago
when an automobile was stopped just in the
nick Of time. the front wheels having gone over
the edge OF the bluff. This broke the fence,
which has not yet been repaired.
According 20 statements made TO a Tribune
reporter, however there are stories Of such un-
protected spots throughout the city. Mr.. Sean
nell, the Commissioner Of Highways for the
Borough Of Manhattan. mentioned One-hunired-
and -fifth-st. and Seventh-ave., and a num-
ber OF places along the East River. where the
protection is merely a picket fence or an iron
rail that a speeding automobile would dispose of
in short order
The chief engineer for Borough President Haf-
fen, in whose bawick the accident occurred,
declared the section Of Jerome-ave. where the
accident occurred was protected by well light
ed tower, and there was no excuse for an acci-
dent, provided the driver displayed ordinary
care
AS to the principal cause of the disaster, the
statement made by Emma Perez, that Mr.
Noyes was drunk, and guess we all were. too"
the statement TO the same effect of Spiess, and
the co-roboration of Patrolman Finnegan. OF
the Highbridge station, who says that only
few minutes previously he warned Noyes against
zigzasging from side to side OF the avenue, show
what it was.
James Patterson. the New-York Central tower
man at point near the wreck. said he had often
ed hat DoIn faa viz IN
just such an accident would happen. He says
he has repeatedly requested that the fence be
moved further east, and that signal OF some
sort be placed at One-hundred-and-sixty-f
st. and Jerorne-ave. as e warning TO drivers.
Il have often seen vehicles driven down that
street. he said. ''and have heard the curses of
the drivers when they were brought UP short
against the fence"
Spies. in Fordham Hospital. yesterday said he
was in the Riverside Casino early In the even
ing with Noyes and others. About $50 o'clock
they started in two automobiles the Panhard
that was wrecked and Winton. They stayed
at a roadhouse IN Jerome-ave. until after mid
night, when some went home. but the nine who
were in the wreck stayed until o'clock. Ali
had been drinking.
Noyes went by two places at which he could
have entered the approach TO the bridge and
gone on in safety. The first was at One-hun-
dred- and -sl1ty-s -second-st., where the new ap-
rroach begins, and the second was at Jerome
and sedgwick aves.. where short continuation
OF sedgwick-ave. carries the recently laid troll
ley tracks 20 the bridge.
Noyes. who came here from Rochester. lived
at No 331 East Eighty-first st. with his wife
and four-year-old son.
Health Commissioner Darlington, who was on
the train which hit the automobile, and was one
Of the first to aid the injured. said one OF the
party told him tire had burst at the critical
point.
Perhaps the most mysterious feature Of The
whole affair is the identity OF the owner of the
machine, which is No. 10a72. The survivors