Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12
Three KILLED IN
auto Disaster
BIG TOURING CAR DASHES OVER
EMBANKMENT IN NEW
YORK CITY.
LANDS ON RAILS AS
ENGINE COMES ALONG
Train Crashes Into Wreck and Adds
to Horror-Six Others of Party Are
Injured, One of Whom Will Prob
ably Die.

New York, Oct S-Driven at the rate
of rs miles an hour, three-seated tour
ing car, containing nine persons, four
men and five women, dashed over an EN-
bankment at the southern end of Jerome
avenue, early Friday morning, landing
on the south-bound track of the New
York Central & Hudson River railroad:
train, running fast to make up time
rounded a curve and struck the automo-
bile. Three persons were killed, two in
stantly; two were seriously injured, and
the other four, although badly bruised
and shaken, were able to go home.
The Victims.
The dead are: Allen Noyes, chauf-
feur of the automobile, killed instantly;
Madge Corcoran, age 80, killed instant
ly; Bella Perez, died in a hospital
The injured are: Mrs. Kitty Wads-
worth, IS, fractured skull; will die;
eral Commissions; Jeanette Davis, shocI'
and slight contusion; Charles Doran, %
shock and slight Commissions; went
home; Emma Perez, sister of Belle
Perez, shock and hysteria; Thomas
Murphy, not badly hurt.
The party was returning to the River
side Casino from trip to Mount Yer
non. Allen Moves, the chauffeur, had in
tended turning from Jerome avenue into
the approach of the McCombs dam
bridge to cross to Manhattan. Whether
he knew of the short extension on Je-
rome avenue beyond One Hundred and
Sixty-first street, or not, will never BE-
known The corner at that point is
brilliantly lighted, but the extension
leading to the edge of the embankment
above the New York Central tracks is
paved with brick and the car tracks run
down to picket fence at the edge.
Car Goes Over Embankment.
Several persons, including two po-
licemen, saw the automobile rushing
down the avenue and 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 crashed through the fence
cleared a dirt embankment, extending
about five feet above the stone retain
ing wall and then, clearing the wall
made a sheer drop of Is feet to the rail-
road track. In it's descent the car half
turned over and several of it's occupants
were spilled out. When it struck the
tracks, Noyes, Bella Perez and the un.
identified woman 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 loca
train the survivors themselves were un.
able to relate. They were stunned ant
bleeding and trying to recover them
selves when they heard the roar of the
train and then frightful crash. Noyes
was caught in the wreckage of the car
and tossed up with it to the pilot of thu
engine. His body was still there whe1
the train was brought to stop. The un.
identified woman was dragged by he1
long automobile coat which caught or
the smashed car for a distance of 2O(
feet, and when the cloth gave way she
fell to the track only to be cut in tu'l
at the waist by the wheels of the engine
The whole train passed over her body
Bella Perez was dragged about so fee
and then tossed to one side.
Train Crashes Into Wreck.
The towerman in a switch tower abou
hundred feet north of Jerome avenue
heard the automobile as it broke
through the fence, and, running to his
window saw the car strike the track.
The Croton local was but 200 fee
away and the engine about so feet NORTH
of block signal. Jumping to the switch
mechanism, he dropped the lever thai
worked the arm Of the signal which wa:
showing the green light and instantly
the danger signal flashed before the eye.
OF the locomotive engineer, who jus
caught the red glare as his cab passed
the signal post. At once he reversed hi!
engine and put down the air brakes, bu
his speed had hardly slackened percep
tibly when the train struck the automo
bile. The train came to a stop at a dis
tance of 800 feet.
On the train was Health Commission
er Thomas Darlington, who took charg,
OF the work of caring for the injured
The locomotive engineer was arrested
but released on his own recoenizances
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