New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-23
TWO GROUND TO DEATH.
AUTO HITS FAST TRAIN.
Robert J. Golfers Chauffeur and
Talet Instantly Killed.
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v-as;bury. Long Island. May 22-An auto
.,obile owned By Robert J. Collier. containing
George Bishop. his chauffeur. and Fred White
I'D his valet crashed into the Port Jefferson
.v,ress train here az $40 o'clock this evening.
1sofh men were killed instantly. The machine
-rss caught under the train and ground to pieces.
qhe express. bound from Long Island City to
vo-t Jefferson. does not make stop after il
,.,rss Jamaica Ii passes through this place at
rate closely approaching sixty miles an hour.
r,sbop and Whitehead were in a 60-horsepower
,rsrcedes IN the rear of the machine were
-.-sral nolo rllallets ard paraphernalia used by
Nr Collier in playing polo.
The men were on the way TO Mr.. Golfers
country home 81 Wheatley Hills and thence to
IRE Meadow Brook Hunt Club where Mr.. Collier
,n,ended 20 play polo this afternoon, and was
evaiting the arrival of his maIlets.
II is impossible TO see a train in either direc-
zion AZ this crossing until it is almost reached.
because OF the several accidents at this point It
has gained the name Of Deaths Crossing.
The scene OF the accident has been frequently
oounlained Of and the railroad commission re-
Gently ordered a bridge built across the track,
mt nothing has been done, and not even fag-
man or q gate protects it.
Bishop was running the machine at about
4wenty miles an hour. and apparently did not
see or hear the approaching express train
About TWO hundred yards from the crossing
George Waster, a butcher of this place. rushed
ont into the road and warned the chauffeur Of
the approaching train, but apparently he did not
understand Waster. for the speed Of the machine
was unchecked
Twenty yards from the crossing Bishop threw
on the brakes. but the momentum carried the
automobile along at an apparently undiminished
-7-a r,7acbfna crashed into the second
car of the train with loud report as if the
gasoene tank had exploded. The automobile
was caught between the rear trucks of the car
and dragged along for nearly half mile be-
fore the train was stopped. Bishop and White
head we're pinioned in the wreckage and drawn
along by the train
As soon the train was stopped the hundreds
Of passengers who had seen the accident got
out and rushed 10 the assistance of the two
men short examination showed that they
had beer killed instantly. They were literally
ground TO pieces
Word was sent to Alr. Collier at the Meadow
Brook Hunt Club. and he came here imme-
6atey in a trap. Many of the members OF
the club accompanied him in automobiles and
traps soon after the accident there was a
crowd of several hundred persons here.
Corone- Cornelius Remsen Immediately held
e inquest in the Westbury railroad station.
He decided that the men had met their death
BY an unavoidable accident Charles O'Conner
was placed in charge Of the bodies.
NJ Collier directed that the bodies be pre-
pared for burial, and that everything be done
At his expense. He expressed his sorrow at the
death a the two men. Both, he said, had been
IN his employ for some time and he thought
highly Of them