The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-18
AUTO OUT ON A LARK WRECKED
FOUR PERSONS BADLY HURT
WHEN CAR SMASHED 1T.

|
spin-They're Hurt, but He Escaped
Third Az. Trolley Crushed Machine.
William Lohse, a chauffeur for Frederick
+. Marshall Of st. Louis, took one Of his
employers automobiles from the garage
where 1t was stored in this city on Sunday
evening and went OF on lark with some
friends. On the way home he met with
an accident in which the automobile was
crushed between an elevated railroad pillar
and heavily loaded southbound trolley
car on Third avenue. Four persons were
seriously injured, and a dozen others
bruised and cut by flying glass, The ao-
cident took place at Seventy-ninth street
about o'clock yesterday morning. The
injured are:
DoSSscHAUsER, HELEN. "a years old o
229 East Sixty-thrd street: scalp wound internalf
injuries and contusions OF legs Taken to Presby-
terrain Hospital, and later discharged.
JOHNSON, JOSEPH. 20 years. OF 2Ce West Forty
eighth street; broken nose and shock. Went home
after treatment by the ambulance surgeon.
LIPPMAN. MOSES; trolley conductor. ~ years old.
OF 533 East Eighty eighth street. contusions OF
head. shoulders and left leg. Taken to Prcsby
terrain Hospital.
McHA Ellis CORA 10 years old. OF 228 Fast Seventy
eighth street: internal Injuries and cuts on head
later went horEc.
Those less seriously hurt were treated
on the spot by the ambulance surgeons
and left for home.
johnson and the two injured girls were
riding in the automobile with Iohse, who
lives at 1874 West Fifty-ifth street. Mr..
Marshall has been stopping in this city
at the Waldorf-Astoria for some time
but at present he is touring another auto
mobile, accompanied by his wife. Lohse
took his employers car from the garag
on Sunday night and went for spin in
Central Park. There he met johnson and
the two girls and the four spent the evening
riding in the park and at Little Coney
Island, just above the park Early in the
morning the party started for the home Of
one Of the girls, and Lohse came out Of the
park at Seventy-ninth street and Fifth
avenue.
They rode east to Third avenue, where
Lohse attempted to turn to the south
bound track. A trolley filed with people
from Fort George was rapidly approaching,
but Lohse thought he could slip around the
elevated pillar all right. The motorman
Jaw the danger and applied the brake, but
there is a considerable grade at the place
and he was unable to stop. The front half
Of the automobile had just cleared the pill
lar when the car struck the machine.
The two men. who were riding on the front
seat. were hurled from the auto. Lohse
miraculously escaped injury.
The two girls, who were riding in the rear
seat over which the hood was raised were
smothered in the debris as the auto was
ground to pieces. They screamed when the
car struck them, and then were crushed into
unconsciousness.
Tippman. the conductor of the trolley,
was standing on the running board at the
time and was thrown some distance. James
Graham. the motorman. jumped just be-
fore the car struck and was not hurt, though
the collision smashed the front platform
where he had been standing and bent the
iron rods that support the hood Passen-
gers we're thrown in heaps. and those in the
forward seats were cut by glass.
Instantly there was a rush to liberate
the girls imprisoned under the hood Of the
automobile, but the body of the vehicle
had been partly overturned and crushed
around them so that it was found impossible
to extricate them without tools. A hurry
cal! was sent for a repair wagon and for
ambulances, and Drs Reed and Barrett OF
the Presbyterian Hospital responded. Upon
the arrival of the emergency wagon the
girls were taken from the wreck and hur
ried to the hospital. The smashed car was
then hauled from the track and the ras-
sengers transferred to another. the line
The police gathered in both Lohse and
Graham each Of whom wanted to prefer
a charge Of reckless driving against the
other. Later they changed their minds
and refused to mako any charges, and both
were set at liberty.