The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-08
SPED To DEATH
IN THEIR AUTO
HOW ACCIDENT OCCURRED
THAT KILLED THREE AND INJUR-
ED SEVERAL OTHERS.

GOing9 twenty-five Miles an Hour
the Machine with Nine Persons
Aboard, Went Over the EmbanIS-
ment, Falling Upon the Track in
Front of n Fast Train-HOw the
Killed Met Their Fate-One Man
Was Temporarily Crazed.
New York. Oct. 7.-Driven at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour a
three-seated touring car, containing
nine persons. four men and five wom-
en-, dashed over an embankment at
the southern end of Jerome avenue
early this morning, landing on the
southbOund track of the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad.
Just at that moment southbound
local train running fast to make up
time, rounded a curve and struck the
automobile. Three persons were killed,
two instantly; two were seriously in
jured and the other four, although
badly bruised and shaken, were able
to so home. The dead are:
Allen Noyes. chauffeur of the auto
mobile, killed instantly.
Madge Corcoran, killed instantly.
Mrs. Isabel Stroebel. died in a hos
pital.
The injured are:
Mrs. Kitty Wadsworth, fractured
skull. will die.
Moses Spiess. fracture of the jaw,
general contusions.
Jeanette Lievre, shock and light con-
tus!ons.
Charles Doran. %, shock and slight
contusions; went home.
Emma Perez, shock and hysteria.
Thomas Murphy, not badly hurt.
Dashed Over the Wall.
The party was returning to the Riv-
erside Casino from a trip to Mount
Vernon. Allen Noyes, the chauffeur,
had intended turning from Jerome av-
enue into the approach of the Nc
Combs Dam bridge to cross to Man
haitian.
Several persons, including two police
men, saw the automobile rushing down
the avenue, and were surprised when
it kept straight ahead. They shouted
warning, but it was too late. With
no apparent sIackening of speed, the
big car dashed over the retaining wall
beside the New York Central track and
made sheer drop of twenty-five feet
TO the railroad track. In it's descent
/ the car half turned and several of the
occupants were spilled out. When it
struck the track Noyes, Mrs. Stroebel
and Madge Corcoran were thrown to
the track, the others falling to the side
of the rails.
Just what happened in the few sec
onds that preceded the crash Of the
local train the survivors themselves
were unable to relate. They were stun
ned and bleeding and trying to recover
themselves when they heard the roar
of the train and then a frightful
crash. Noyes was caught in the wreck
age of the car and tossed up with 1t
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 car, for a distance of 200
feet, and when the cloth gave way she
fell to the track, only to be cut in two
at the waist by the wheels of the en-.
gine. The whole train passed over her
body.
Mrs. Stroebel was dragged about fif-
ty feet and then tossed to one side.
story of One of the Party.
Thomas Murphy, one of the party in
the wrecked machine, disappeared inn
mediately after the accident. He re-
turned to his place of employment to-
night with a 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
steering gear got out of order when
the machine reached the corner of Je-
rome avenue and 160th street. The
chauffeur lost control and the automo-
bile went straight for the fence, plung-
ing over the embankment.
Murphy 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.