The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-11

New York, October 7.-Driven at the
rate of 25 miles an hour, a three seated
touring car, containing nine persons,
four men and five women, dashed over
an ~embankment at the southern end OF
Jerome avenue, early this
landing on the southern track of the
New York Central and Hudson River
railroad. Just that ome a SOUTH
bound local train running fast to make
I'D time rounded a curve and struck the
automobile. Three persons were killed,
two instantly. two were seriously in
jured, and the other four though badly
bruised and shaken, were able to go
home.
The dead are:
Allen Noyes, chauffeur OF the auto
mobile killed instantly.
Madge Corcoran, killed instantly.
Mrs. Isabel 'Stroebel, died in a hos
pjtal.
The injured are: Mrs. Kitty Wads-
worth, fractured skull, will die; Moses
Spiess, fracture of the jaw, general con-
tusions; Jeanette Lievre, shock and
light contusions; Charles Doran, %,
shock and light confusion, went home;
Emma Perez, shock and hySteria; ThoS.
Murphy, not badly hurt.
THE party were returning to the Riv-
erside casino from a trip to Mount Yer
non. Allan Noyes, the chauffeur, had
intended turning from jerome avenue
nto the approach of the McComb's
dam bridge to cross to Manhattan.
Several persons, including two police
men, saw the automobile rushing down
the venue and were surprised when 1T
kept straight ahead. They shouted a
warning, out it was too late With no
apparent Stacking of speed the big
car dashed owe the retaining wall be-
side the New York Central n made a
sheer drop of 20 feat to the railroad
track. In it's descent the car half turn
ed over and several of it's 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 proceeded the crash Of the
local train the survivors themselves
were unable to relate. They were stun
ned 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 wreck
age of the 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 h 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 engine. The whole
train passed owe her body. Mrs.
'Stroebel was dragged about so feet
and then tossed to one side.
Thomas Murphy, n 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 SCARED 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 steer
gear got out of order when the ma
chine reached the corner Of Jerome
avenue and I60th street. The chauffeur
lost control and the automobile went
straight for the fence, plunging over
the embankment. Murphy landed on
his back. He says he arose and start
ed to run. He does not know where
he went, although he wandered about
the entire day.