The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-24
AUTO CRASHES INTO A HIGH BILL BOARD
ONE HAN KILLED AND TWO
 WoMEN INJURED. ,
Machine Struck by a Trolley Car and Chaffeur Temporarily Loses Control Arrested and Later Released Under Bonds of s1,000-The Man Killed and One of the Women Injured Engaged to be Married,
to be Married.

New York, April 2S.-One man was killed and two women badly hurt when big sightseeing automobile crowded with passengers, crashed into a high billboard fence at Eighth avenue and Fifty-seyenth street to-day. The streets were thronged with Easter promenad- CTS at the time of the accident, and po- lice reserves had to be called out to keep the crowd in check. The chauffeur claims was struck by an Eighth ave- nue trolley car and was skidded along the tracks, and that in this way lie temporarily lost control of the brakes. l The dead: Charles r. Kcster twen- ity-one years old, a business man of this Ecity.
 The injured: Miss Anna Finnerman, eighteen years old, broken nose and eontusions; Mrs. Angelina Romano, i forty-tive years old, injuries to spine. Roster and Miss Zimmerman were on 7 the front seat of the automobile. They { were engaged to be married, the cere- mony being set for next week. Mrs. Romano was seated in little fruit stand near the corner of the fence, and when both stand and fence were de- molished by the automobile she was caught and crushed beneath the falling timbers.
 More than forty persons were on the heavy vehicle when the accident took lplace, and that more were not injured lis regarded as remarkable. The auto- mobile is one of half a hundred used in this city to convey visitors from out of town to points of interest about the city. The passenger list is usually
 made up almost entirely of hotel guests and other strangers in the city, but the names gathered by the police to-day , show only one person with other than New York address. Louis Furry, of Harrison Hall, Boston, was among the passengers. x.
 Following the collision between the street car and the automobile the ex- citement among the passengers, many of whom were women, was so great that it is impossible to determine
 whether Roster and Miss Finnerman were hurled from their places or wheth- CT they jumped from the vehicle as they saw an accident was unavoidable
 Rosters skull was fractured and he died within a few minutes. It was at first thought the young woman passen- gers injuries might prove fatal, but a more thorough exalninaton showed that while seriously hurt, she will re-
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 Joseph Flynn, chauffeur of the sight
 seeing machine, was placed under ar rest and later released under a $1,000
 bond for examination tomorrow Ac- cording to his story, the automobiling party was returning down Eighth ave- Inue after. tour through Central park. Flynn says he intended turning into Fifty-seventh street, and, thinking the trolley car had stopped on the near side lof the street, he guided the machine lonto the track Instead of stopping, however, the car came on and struck Ithe front wheels of the automobile, Jcausing it to sWerye. l q put on all the power to turn west immediately" said the chauffeur. "The Jolt from the car, however, swung my machine around and again the car struck us in the rear. Knowing I had la big crowd on board and that their Hives were endangered, tried to put on |the brakes, but did not succeed until Ithe machine had plunged across the sidewalk and into the fence"