New-York tribune., 1905-12-25

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bacon, Mrs Edward A Manice
and J. Allen Townsend Hurt In Wreck
SPEEDING PANHARD UPSETS IN DITCH
Owner Crushed Beneath His Birthday Before Wdes EeWoman AmOs
Douped-Ohrs Escape Serious Injury

The driver was also badly injured. All OF Us
were drenched as there must have been several
feet of water In the ditch. After seeing ME-
Martins body cared for the party went to theiV
homes in carriages, leaving the machines De-
hind
Ii was learned at the Bacon home, No I03 Wesn
jIth-st, last night that Mr. and Mrs Bacon had
started in the morning with Mr. Martin irt
his touring car to spend the day on Long Island%
They were brought home from Flushing in a
carriage. with Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend anu
DR. storey of Rayside The two Swedish maids
of the family were filed with con5ternatiork
when their employers. who had started out IN
good health and spirits were brought back sne
carried into the house groaning with pain The
maids summoned DR.. Albert II. Ely. of NO AZ
| West J6th-st.
hasty examination convinced the physicfa1
| that neither of the patients was seriously
! hurt. but they had injuries requiring bandag-
ing Both were conscious but suffering pain
| from their bruises Mrs. Bacon seemed haunted
! by the horrible vision of Mr.. Martins deaths
! Mr. Bacon's back badly wrenched but Drs
| Ely thought there was slight danger of this IN
| jury resulting seriously
| Mr. Bacon is a stock broker at No. 66 Broad
| way. He is a member of the Union League
New-York Athletic, New-York Yacht, Larch-
! mont Garden City Golf and other clubs. besides
| belonging to the Sons of the Revolution. His
| wife who was Miss Charlotte Macy Vantine, IS
| a member Of the Colonial Danes. They havs
/ one daughter.
MRS MARTIN JRr TELLS OF ACCIDENT.
! Mrs J. E Martin jr daughter-in-law of the
| dead man. was almost prostrated by the acci-
dent when she reached the Martin home in
| 5th-ave
TT was a horrible accident" she said Y
saw the automobile fall into the ditch, killing
| Uya 0us
way home from the Oakland Golf Club, at Bay
| side Long Island and speeding along in
| good spirits chatting and laughing. am sure
we not going at dangerous speed The
| driver of the automobile has been in
| vice for q long time and is thoroughly ex-
| perienced. I was in the Mercedes car. listed as
| No 1882 a small and light machine In the
| car besides myself were my husband. Mrs ].
| Allen Townsend Mrs. Martin, 5r.. and Stacey
| Clark The other machine was 5S-horsepower
| Panhard.
| "Mr Martin sat on the front seat of his car
| beside the driver Mrs Martin continued I
| was on the front seat of the Mercedes. and at
| nv suggestion we kept ahead of the other car.
! Just as the Panhard drew up close behind our
| machine 1 saw, to my horror. the machine crash
! into ditch which dug for sewer main.
| How the accident happened 1 cannot tell. The
| machine may have skidded the driver lost his
| head There is a slight curve near the point
! where the accident happened, and there was
| nothing there to prevent automobiles or other
| vehicles from falling into the excavation. and
| 10 danger sign. 1t is fortunate that the ditch
was shallow and that its bottom was Of sofs
! mud; otherwise the accident. terrible as It was,
! would have been much worse
| The Panhard tipped over, spilling its occu-
| pants into the ditch. We in the Mercedes cried
| out in horror A mounted policeman drove us
| and at my request telephoned to the Flushing
| Hospital In the mean time got stimulants.
| but it was too late. Mr. Martin was killed in-
| stantIy The full weight of the Panhard pin-
! ioned him in the ditch. 1 noticed that Mr.. Bacon
was injured in the back
EXCITEMENT IN FLUSHING.
The news OF the terrible smash spread rap
! dIy through Flushing. and within half an hour
| after 1t occurred men, women and children were
| hurrying to Broadway and WhitestOne Road.
! Flushing got the first news of the accidens
! through the hospital which had been informed 8
| few moments after IT happened Mr.. Martin, who
had been host to the merry party, was then lying
dead in the home Of Edward VI. Peck Physi-
clans summoned from the hospital bound the
wounds of Mr. and Mrs Bacon and others in the
second
The facts regarding the accident as learned
| on the spot were that Mr.. Martin and his
guests we're returning from a dinner party at
| the Oakland Golf Club in honor of his fifty
eighth birthday. Mr.. Martin was in a 5O-horse-
power Panhard sitting on the front seat with
the driver Alexander F1ori. The road is macad-
amized and there are no sidewalks.
THE TWO CARS WERE RACING.
The driver OF the Panhard said that there had
been a lively race for several miles between ths
TWO cars and that Mr. Martin urged his driver
TO pass the Mercedes, which kept the lead for
some time Within one hundred feet OF Broad
way and Earliest. both had kept to ths
right of the road. After that the Panhard
swerved to the left and attempted TO take the
lead The speed of the machine at that moment
was estimated at from fifty to sixty miles an
hour.
The Panhard was almost terms with
the Mercedes. when the machine suddenly lifted.
throwing the occupants from their seats Th5
oar had run into soft. yielding strip of earth.
several feet away from the macadamiZed road
The driver at this moment either became fright
ened or the machine became unmanageable. He
says it, would not respond to his efforts The
next instant with the driver still clinging 20
the wheel the car plunged into deep ditch. dag
for gas mains
CAR TURNS sOMERsAULT.
The force with which il struck and the work
ing of the machinery. caused the machine %
1urn one complete somersault and part of an
other The occupants hurled into the
ditch those in the seats heing fortunats
enough TO escape being pinioned under the ma
chine.
Mr.. Martin. who the front seat. was
thrown headlong into the ditch, with the whole