The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-03
AUTO BUTTS CAR AND BURNS UP.
Gay Party or Six All Hurt; Small hoy
Also.

large touring automobile colidod
with crosstown car OF the Eighty-siSth
! street line shortly after 10 o clock last night
at the corner Of Elghty-eigbth street and
Avenue A. The car was thrown from the
| track and the passengers in it were thrown
in all directions. A ten-year-old boy in
the car was severely cut and bruised.
The automobile contained a merry party
Of six young men. All of them were hurled
to the street and all were more or less in
jured. The machine was badly smashed,
I and the gasolene tank exploded settnc
fire TO it, This neoessitated the turning in
of an alarm, and fire apparatus hurried TO
the spot,
The auto was driven by George Fitz-
gerald of 545 West Forty-eghth street.
The five others in it gave their names and
addresses az follows
NJ. j. Volkman. 80 years old, Of l97 East
Ninety-third street; NJ. II. Ramsay, 30
years old, OF 100 West Hghty-fourth street
Albert Austin. rs years old, Of SO West l0Oth
street; Jacob Alters, % years Old Of 80
West Forty-eighth street. and George
Roberts. Is years old, Of rs West Eighty
third street. All the young men were
either thrown or jumped 10 the street and
none Of them ESCAPED injury, although
none was seriously hurt They were taken
into Soheyer's drug store. on the corner.
and treated 10y tho druggist
An ambulance was summoned from the
Presbyterian Hospital. but all Of the young
men refused the prohered attention of
Dr. Cook, the ambulance surgeon. Their
one idea seemed to be % get away from the
scene of the accident as soon a. possible.
The boy injured on the car when it was
knocked from the tracks is Edward Dick
man of 46i Eleventh avenue He was
standing on the rear platform. His mother
who was seated in the car, escaped with
only shaking up. and she lost no time
in hurrying home with her son, whose
injuries consisted mainly of a scalp wound
and Commissions.
The East Eighty-eighth street police
station is only half block away from the
scene OF the accident. but despite this adj
vantage the police were able TO secure
little information concerning the accident
and no arrests were made.
Bystanders said that the automobile had
been scurrying around the neighborhood
and was proceeding through Eighty eighth
street when il struck the car, VIII ich had
Just before turned up Avenue from
L ighty-sixth street and was bound for
the Astoria ferry. at the foot of East Ninety
second street, the eastern terminus OF the
inc.
There was a heavy fog at the timc. and
this fact perhaps accounts for the accident.
The automobile struck the car in the rear,
smashing the back platform.
= ina .nffk fr
knew their peril and jumped or else they
were fortunately booted out, for almost
Immediately following the collision there
was an explosion, and the machine burst
into flames. The car had been split IN hall
by the force Of the collision. Several police
men tried to put the flames out with sand
that the motorrnan Of the car provided.
This was Intellectual. and an alarm was
turned In.
The members Of hook and ladder com
pany that responded made short work of
the flames by the use Of chemicals carried
on the truck. The automobile was total
wreck when the flames were extinguished'
and the occupants hurried away, leaving
1t TO its fate
1t took some time 10 get the derailed
street car back on the tracks, and when
THIS mad been done IL was 1Ounu Indt tlic
car had been damaged 10 such an extent
that it could not be propelled with its own
power. Another car pushed it to the ferry
terminal. where She car was sidetrached-
The collision, Yith the subsequent Incl
dents, created quite a stir in the nelghbor-
hood Engine %, which responded TO the
alarm, was coupled 10 a hydrant on the
corner but it was not obliged TO 60 into
action However, when they came 70
leave it was found that the hydrant had
burst, 40 that it could not be repugged.
As a result the streets for some distance
around We're flooded.
Fitzgerald. the driver told the police
that the automobile was owned by William
Forbes of 81 Pine street