The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-09
D EVIL CARS LEAP
Down Down Before Rush
ing Engine, Turn From
This CHASTITY Scene.
IRv the Associated Press.)

r:ew York. Oct. 1.-Dr1Vcn III the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour
tbrao-seated car, containing nine per
CONC four men and five women, dashed
over an embankment at the southern
end Of Jerome Avenue. early tnlo
morning. landing on the sOuthbouno
track of the New York Central ana
Hudson River Railroad. JustHat that
moment a southbound local train. run
ming fast to make up time, rounded a
curve and struck the automobile.
Three persons we're killed, two in
stantly; two were seriously injured,
and the other four, although badly
bruised and shaken, were allie to go
home.
The dead are:
Allen Moves, chauffer of the auto
mobile, killed instantly.
Madoe COrcOran. killed instantly.
Mrs Isabel Stroebel, died in hos
pital.
The injured are: Mrs. Kitty Wads-
worth, fractured skull, VIII die; Moses
Spices fracture of the jaw, general
Commissions. Jeanette Lievre, shock
and light contusions; Charles Doran,
Z
home: Emma Perez, shock and hys-
terra; Thomas Murphy, not badly hurt.
The party were returning to the
Riverside Casino from trip to Mount
Vernon. Allen Moves, the chauffer,
had intended turning from jerome
Avenue into the approach of the Nc
Combs Dam bridge to cross to Man
haitian.
Warned, Put Too Late.
Several persons, including two po-
licemen, saw the automobile rushing
down the avenue ana were surprised
when it kept straight ahead. They
shouted a warning, but it was too late.
With no apparent Stacking of speed
the big car dashed over the retaining
wall beside the New York Central
track and made a sheer drop of tWen-
ty-!ive feet to the railroad track. In
its descent the car half turned and
several of its occupants were spilled
out When it struck the tracks, Noyes
Mrs. Stroebel and Madge Corcoran
were thrown to the track. the others
falling TO the side Of the rails.
just what happened in 4 few Sc
conds that preceded the crash of the
local train the survivors themselves
were unable to relate. They were
stunned and bleeding and trying to re-
cover themselves when they heard the
roar of the train and then a frightful
crash. Noyes was caught in the
wreckage of tbs car and tossed up with
it on the pilot of the engine. His
body was still there when the train was
brought to a stop. Madge Corcoran
was dragged by her long automobile
coat, which caught on the SMASHED
ear, for a distance of 200 feet, and
when the cloth gave way she fell to the
track, only TO he cut in two at the
waist by the wheels of the engine. The
whole train passed over her body.
hrs Stroebel was dragged about fifty
feet and then tossed to one side.
Thomas Murphy, one of the party
in the wrecked machine, disappeared
Immediately after the accident He
returned to his place of employment
tonight with q fractured wrist. his face
badly cut and bruises on all parts of
his body. Murphy told the story of
the ride of the party and said that
the steerage gear got out of order
when the machine reached the corner
Of Jerome Avenue and 160th street.
The chauffer lost control and the au-
tomobile went straight for the wall,
lunging over the embankment Muir
ply landed on his back. He says he
arose and started to run. He does not
know where he went, although he
wandered about the entire day.