Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-07
TRAIN STRIKES
AN AUTOMOBILE.
Machine Had Gone Over an En-.
bankment and Landed on
Railroad Track.
THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED.
Wreckage Of Touring Car Was Seat
tered Along the Track for Full
Two Blocks,

New York, oct While speeding
along In the Bronx early this morning,
an automobile containing nine persons
went off an embankment at one Huns
drcd and slxty.hrst street and Jerome
avenue and three persons a ma nand
two women. were killed The machine fell
on to the New York Central tracks and
the wreckage was struck by south-
bound train. In the automobile when
the accident occurred were i've women
and four men,
Al Jerome avenue and one llunded
ana sixty-hrst street the roadway Is be-
tween 30 ana 40 feet above the rail-
road tracks When the big machine
plunged downward Il struck near the
houthh0und tracks and the nine per-
sons and the automobile were caught
by an incoming train
Besides the three Killed an the others
in the automobile We're injured They
were taken 10 the Fordham hospital,
whore II was reported at 1870 this morn
ing that at least four Of those hurt
were 81 serious condition.
KILLED.
Albert Noyes
Anna Smith
Unidentified woman.
INJURED.
Emma Perez, New York.
Bell Perez
Jeanette Davis, address not known
Moses Spies, New York
Charles Doran New York
Thomas Murphy.
When the train reached the Grand
Central station shortly before 2 o'clock
this morning, Engineer Livingstone
was placed under arrest One Of the
passengers on the train said that the
train was running az about 81 miles
an hour when II struck the machine
The machine was a heavy touring car,
and ID Is said was running down jerome
avenue at a rapid rate Of speed
The body Of Albert Noyes chauffeur
Of the wrecked machine was found uu,
derneath the pilot Of the engine horri-
bly, mangled
AT o'clock this morning one of the
injured women was Identified as Anna
smith. aged N years. This made q to-
tai of three dead. one NJ whom a WO-
man. was still unidentified
Wreckage Of the machine was found
scattered along the track for distance
of two blocks Tho car had been re.
duced literally to bits Is said 10
have been running at the rate OF %
mills an hour.
The automobile accident which oc.
CURED early today at the foot Of Je-
rome avenue In which three persons
lost their lives and six were badly in
jured. was one Of the worst since the
sport became popular N this city Loss
Of life possibly would have been avoid
cd but for the untmely arrival of a
passenger train on the New York Gem
trail railroad.
Unfamlllarty with the nature Of the
roadway was the direct cause Of the
accident Albert Noyes, chauffeur
employed by the Riverside casino had
charge Of the automobile. which was
heavy touring car. With three other
men and five women, the automobile
had been run TO Yonkers and Van Cort-
landt park. popular ride for those who
wish TO try the speed Of their machines
late at night. After supping at one OF
the numerous hotels the party started
on their return trip about midnight
There was straight run Of several
miles south IN jerome avenue, down
which the machine sped at the rate or
25 or 20 miles an hour AZ one hundred
and Sixtielh street the avenue comes
20 an abrupt end An iron fence guards