The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-08
KILLED CAROUSING In AUTO.
,rp0uE AVENUE WRECK ENDED
WILD NIGHT RIDE.
n, Dead Drivers Injured Guests One Is
SIN In Danger-scene OF Horror
when Engine Hit the Maohine--Po-
lice Fail 10 Find NOyes's Employer.

when Engine Hit the Machine-Po.
uoe Fail 10 Find NOyes's Employer.
M the Ave persons injured in the automo
hue accident on Jerome avenue early yes
,arday one, Mrs. Kate Wadsworth may
Ia None Of the others is seriously hurt.
II was one OF the three dead, Albert
xoves the driver, who took the party out
ue sneaked away with his employers
,,,cbine on last Thursday night for lit
ia nriyate auto ride with picked-np party
Of convivial friends.
The trip ended under the wheels OF
locomotive. with three Of the party dead
and Ave hurt. Never was death more
sudden. One moment they were laugh
ing and singing with a mirth that was not
sntirey due to youthful spirits. A second
later they were being ground to pieces.
The machine, going at top speed, was
driven over a thirty foot bank onto rail-
road track At the moment when it struck,
New York Central passenger train smashed
into the wreckage This is the list OF cas-
ualties:
yorrs. ALBERT, % years old, of ss1 East Eighty
nrst street.
George Strobol, a policeman.
DoR,y. CHARLES. 20. AT East Eightieth street.
badly cut. - -
badly bruised.
PEREZ EHMA, Is. 200 Fast Eighty-htth street,
broken wrist. bruises.
SPIES. MOSES. 80. Ill west lsSth street. lace
.mashed and Jaw broken.
WApswoRTH. Mrs. KATE H5 East Fifty
street, internally injured: may die.
Lately chauffeurs of for a lark in ma
chimes borrowed from their employers
have made the Riverside Casino in 10th
street kind Of a hang-out Noyee was
there often, drinking and dancing with
the gang. He showed up late Thursday
evening with two women. They went in,
had a few drinks. and then Noyes got gen.
erous and offered to take every one In sight
for ride
Three girls accepted the invitation and
the seats were packed when one Murphy,
once waiter at the place, but lately
hanger-on, joined them.
Room for more gents'" he asked.
Sure" said Noyes. bring them along"
So Murphy, Moses Spies and Charles Doran
Joined the party. They packed in any
way, until they spilled over the rails OF the
big touring car. They had final stirrup
cup, and then Noyes sent her along up
toward The Bronx.
Beside the four men there we're Mrs.
Isabelle Strobel and her sister, Emma Perez,
the women whom Noyes had with him
when he started; Mary Cochran, a pretty
little restaurant cashier; Jeannette Leveri
and Mrs. Kate Wadsworth. Noyes was
out for a time and began by taking the
regular number plate of his machine and
substituting a fake number, lettered on
card board.
Thew shot out toward The Bronx at
terrific speed. Twice they stopped on
the road and unbotted more enthusiasm
When they turned onto Macomb's Dam
Bridge the tender tried to hail them, but
they were gone like shot
Somewhere. away out toward West
Chester, they turn ed back and, still scorch-
ing, made for Manhattan again; Before
they left there was another drink all around.
nue. to cross Macomb's Dam Bridge
Jerome avenue meets Sedgwick avenue
at a sharp angle and the latter turns in to
bridge tag end of Jerome avenue contin-
ues on straight for perhaps half block,
when the thoroughare ends abruptly IN
a thirty foot stone embankment above
the tracks of the railroad. just across
the track is signal tower. That half
block ia used only as switching plac
for trolley cars. and to prevent careless
drivers from running down to grief therel
a stout rail fence above the enbanirnent
wit an arc light to show it by night
Policeman Tracey and a car crew on tho
siding heard the auto chugging down Sedg-
wick avenue. The passengers were singing
and the machine was going like mad. It
reached the turn and before they could yell
a warning it had passed and shot on down
the blind alley toward the fence and en-
bankment
vision of sudden death; the Waterman
In the railroad signal tower looked up and
saw it, only the victims raced on uncon-
scious They. were singing Just fraction
Of a second before three Of them we're
crushed to death.
As the signalman looked up and saw the
autos headlights fash in his face, saw
the big machine tear through the fence and
dive out toward the tracks the south bound
express, going, forty,,fve miles an hour,
.rillne PEOPLE as 1t fell landed on the very
COW catcher of the locomotive.
Engineer Livingston saw red danger
light fash from the tower, and in the same
instant felt jar which made his engine
feet beyond before his engine stopped.
The machine, load of splinters ana
scrap metal hung from the cowcatcher.
A woman's head, the face untouched. a
head dressed in gay, plumed nat, hun8
from the wreckage. He dragged away
a piece Of steel and the head fell with it.
It had been Miss Cochran five seconds
before.
On the other side Of the track lay Mrs.
Strebel. broken all to pieces end just breath
ing Somewhere in the wreckage was the
little that was left of Noyes.
The passengers streaned out OF the car
to help. They found woman running
up and down. laughing hysterically. 1t
was Miss Perez, least injured OF all the
women. Spies, Mrs. Wadsworth and
Doran were strung along beside the track
unconscious For 800 feet the roadway
was strewn with splinters. The locomotive
wheels, humping over auto wreckage, had
ground Moves all to pieces and cut Miss
Cochran in two. Half way down the line
they found her corset, torn away from
the body.
Mrs. Strobel was in such condition
that II was wonder she lived at all. She
died half an hour after she was removed
with the other injured to the Fordham
Hospital. Murphy, the ninth member OF
the rarity, could not be found. The police
searched for hours, thinking that his body
might have been tossed away from the
track
Not ono Of the PARTY knew who was
Noyes's employer. The broken machine,
an electric touring car Of French ma Ike,
constructed by Leffebre d Son. Seine.
France wag chewed into n thousand bits.