New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-13
TRAIN HITS AUTOMOBILE.
ONE DEAD. ONE MINED.
Entire Family Hurled from Vehicle
at FaR COrtlandt Park.

I
landJ Park station OF the New-York Central
RaiIrosd Putnam division. frank p. Read, a
paper manufacturer. was killed and Miss Mar
garet NoaKes. Of No. as Riverside Drive. was
seriously injured. yesterday afternoon The
train running slowly at the time. was toc
automobile. When the crash came, tire ear was
overturned. Mr.. Read thrown out. ssrik-
ing his head the cowcateher. which car-
ried him several feet Miss Noakes pinned
between the automOOtle and train wHeel erti
the others were hurled in all directions.
\ sOuthbound train had Just left the station
and northbound train arriving as the biz
touring car. containing George Noakes. the res
taurant man, Mrs. NOakes Miss Margaret and
George Noakes. jr. with NIr. Read and John
| Spencer. the coIOred driver. in the front seal.
rolled from the Van Cortlandt parade ground
toward the golf links. Spencer running the
machine. giving ali his attention to the sound
bound train. Apparently the Yonx-
ers train until the machine was on the track
CONTROL. TAKEN FROM DRIVER
Mr. Noakes calm- He believed Spencer
would save them. He stood I'D beside his wife
and stopped her from jumping. saying:
NO. 70! It's all right. it's all right! Don't
jumpg'
The boy in the back seat was clutching the
| seat ahead Of him. terror stricken, but he made
no attempt TO move
/ making heroic efforts to save the party. Spen-
Ger. on spying the train. had attempted TO turn
the machine He brought II around so that II
shot elong the track parallel with the train.
Mr.. Read was not satisfied with this move.
| thought Spencer had lost his head steering. for
| he seized the wheel and lever from the negros
! hands.
He gave n swift turn to the wheel and pull
at the lever, and Immediately the automobile
IN md zhO atr ahA tn he
track at it's highest speed.
Mr. Read evidently thought there was still time
TO cross in front OF the engine. but the touring
car directly in the middle OF the track when
the locomotive hit IL. The crash was heard on
the golf links. and players looked up to see men
and women flying through the air. Mr.. Read
was thrown forty feet. and the others twenty
five.
Mrs. Noakes was flung with her husband and
son the greensward OF the links. close to the
putting green of the sixth hole. Spencer landed
on the grass In another direction. His scalp was
torn in several places.
Miss NoaI1es pinned between part OF the
automobile and one OF the engine wheels near
the cowcatcher. Her body was carried alOnS
by the locomotive until the train was brought
10 a stop some fOrty-five feet up the track.
Al! golfng stopped and the players rushed n
the scene The trainmen and passengers joined
the throng. and in a short time a crowd of sew
eral thousand people that had been having
days outing in the park gathered at the station.
Fifty policemen were sent for TO keep the crowd
in check.
Mr.. Reads body picked UP forty feet frOm
the crossing. He had struck on his head, ana.
though his other injuries were severe. it is be-
lieved the fall caused his death. as he sustained
d compound fracture of the skull. He remained
unconscious unt!l his death in FOrdhaE Hos
pitaI. hour and half later
Miss Noakes who had swooned when the train
struck the vehicle, hung Imply between the
locomotive wheel and part of the wrecked ma
chine Her left foot had dragged on the rail.
and had been amputated by the engine wheels.
The grinding Of the engine wheel against the
part of the automobile crushed the upper part
of the girls left leg and fractured the bone.
The work of removing the girls body was a
delicate one. The broken wheel OF the auto
mobile was removed. bit by bit. Two ambu-
lances had been called by Mounted Policeman
Stewart OF the Kingsbridge station. and the
girl and Mr. Read We're carried at once TO Ford
ham Hospital Mrs Noakes. who had tainted.
was revived. but she became hystericaI when
she saw her daughter. Mrs. NoasIes went TO
the hospital with her husband. and there be-
came historical again when her daughters left
leg was amputated.
Spencer. in addition half dozen scalp
wounds was badly bruised. and one OF his feet
was crushed He was taken to the St Josephs
HOSPITAL Yonkers which had sent an ambu-
lance
The parts OF the automobile we're gathered up
and thrown in a heap near the track
Mr. Noakess son was sent to his home In a
carriage.
Mr. Read was a wallpaper manufacturer at
No. 90 Washington-st. He had lived at the
Hotel Endicott for about a year and a half with
his wife and e1ght-year-old son. These went
into the country about week and a half ago.
He was forty years old.
No arrests were made. The engineer of the
train was Mahlon Primrose. OF No S41 West
One-hundred-a -forty-ffth-st. The conductor
was Robert Cummings, Of No. 297 South Broad
way.
The detectives said a second train was on the
sorthbound track at the time OF the accident.
and was starting as the nOrthbound train hit
the automobile. II IS said that Spencer pos
sibIv was watching this train and did not see
the other.
Mr.. and Mrs Noakes reached their home just
before / o'clock this morning. They were ac-
eornpanied by Mr.. and Mrs J. W. Butler. neigh
bors and intimate friends. who had been called
by Mr. Noakes TO the hospital
Mrs Noakes was in an almost fainting condi-
ton. and practically carried by her hus-
7 band and Mrs. Butler.
Il cannot tell you how it happened said Mr..
Noakes Il don't know how it happened. i saw
the engine. and then the next thing l knew It
was all over / could no more tell what nap
| pened than that post there.
MIR. Noakes said ne did not know where Mr.
! Reads widow and were. They went 10
some town in Connecticut. He had sent several
/ telegrams in trying 10 find them
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