New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-14
AUTO" LEAPS OVER BANK
THREE BADLY INJURED.
Party off for Races Take Plunge at
.9.9d-.St. Cut in Pdrk-Arc.

,,,,o o,,+o,nobile touring car. the way to
+ta Vanderbilt CUP races just after O'Clock inns
morning tore into Park-ave. from "oo-s'-' 'iiN
the next moment was hurled headlong over an
erhankment TO the streetcar tracks. Inc o0o1
pants three women and two men. were IN y" -
ont and all were badly injured. The owner anu
driver. Charles Gehalaus. thirty-four years o,D'
NJ Aoueduct and fremont aVes' was aiieS'eu ~
patrol,nan O'Brien and locked up on d ciia' &c -
intoxication and criminal negligence
patrolman O'Brien sent in an ambulance can
- once and ambulances from the NeW-Ao Ik
snd Bellevue hospitals responded Two Wo'ile"'
who gave their names as Mrs. E h Lloyd
Miss siebert and Charles Splitdorf were taken taken
20 the hospitals At the Bellevue hospital II
nos said Miss Siebert had several bad scalp
wounds. but was not in serious condition,
,r,ro others in the party escaped without in
iuries and were not heard Of afterward' Inc
chauffeur could offer no explanation LOT Iu'i
,,re- into the big steel fence IN Park-ave- other
than that he thought he was in 54th-s'-' "iieie
che street cuts through the avenue Patroi'lail
Cl,,-io., COWS the man was intoxicated and that
=, o,,aa several times TO him when he hearo
che machine coming east from Broadway Inc
no machine was badly smashed ana the holSe
4. made plunging over the emoanknent aro"'eu
the residents of the neighborhood -.
coo,as of men and women rushed out nan
-. o+Tar assistance. DR.. Peter j. GloooA'
H.. nearby. attended to the women ana
- obout 10 aid the men, but they had gone
- - learned. earlier in the morning, that two
-, ,srfectly sober got up and busted them
-. then ran north two blocks and jumped
into cab.
Colonel Ondey, who stops at the Park Avenue
15o4el told Captain DooIey that he saw the men
running off and chased after them He said he
n,f his hands to his hip pockets and yelled n
them to stop or he'd blow their brains out, -
they were then in the cab.
That the entire crowd was a merry one and
tina driver Of the machine had no control over
Il because of over Indulgence was told 10 Cap
tain Dooley by q dozen spectators.
When Dooley heard this, he summoned the
prisoner TO him and asked for an explanation,
but he was apparently too intoxicated to give
a clear account of the affair The machine was
thrown lengthwise across the tracks and badIy
smashed. After the excitement had subsidized
the patrolman found broken bottles and other
sncidentals to a days jollifcation at the races
The place where the accident happened Is
perfect for such occurrence. The drop is
fifteen feet over the wall. The opening to the
tunnel or rather the approach TO the opening,
extends back from 34th-st- to 32d-st.. and 33d-
st is about midway and half way up the grade.
The machine went over the wall right at the
corner of the Park Avenue Hotel.
At the Criterion IL said that in the party
were a Miss Blanche SiebeTt, who lives at the
hotel: Miss Alice Hudson, address unknown,
and Mr.. Splitdorf who is In the automobile
dorf not in the partly and lives somewhere
up the State. Mr.. Splitdorf. according to the
hotel folk. had not returned, the police had
stated after the accident.