Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-26
CRUSHED TO DEATH
FrightfuI Accident to Yale Stu
dents Today.
PITTSBURG MAN IS KILLED
Machine Skidded Off the End of a
Bridge.
FOUR MILES FROM THE COLLEGE
Turned in It's Flight Through the Air.
Colston, Baltimorean, One
of Those Injured.
OUR MILES FROM THE COLLEGE


Haven, Conn, this morning, and D.
Leet Oliver of Pittsburg was
killed. N. Strothers Jones of Red
Bank, n. J.; ]. A. c. Colston, Balti-
more, students, and E. Hudson,
commencement visitor, were in
jured. Oliver died from a broken
back, the others are suffering from
manifold bruises, and Colston had
his nose broken.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, June pa fright
full accident, causing the death of one I'M
dergraduate and injuries more or less seri-
Gus to two other students and to a guest,
cast gloom over the commencement exer-
cises at Yale University today. The dead
man is D. Leet Oliver, son of ]. B. Oliver
of Pittsburg and senior in Sheffield Scien-
tifc School. member of st. Anthony's fra
ternity and one of the most prominent So
cially of the upper classmen. The injured
are w. Strothers Jones of Redbank, N. j.,
a Sheffield junior. and ]. a. c. Co,ston of
Baltimore, n senior in the same depart
guest Of the others. all of whom live at st.
Anthony's house.
oliver died from a broken back, being
crushed under his automobile after it had
jumped off bridge in Centerville, about
four miles from the college The others
are suffering from manifold bruises. and
Coiston had his nose broken
The party was coming into the city lust
about daybreak. and the machine apparent
~ sKldded on the end OF the bridge, which
spans small stream. AS the machine took
Its flight into the air 1t turned over and
landed just at the edge Of the water. its
crushing weight coming upon Oliver. who
was driving. and he was almost instantly
killed. The others in the party sought help
from nearby houses, and Messrs. JONES'
Hudson and Colston were carried into New
Haven for hospital treatment.
The automobile was of the racing type,
and was under Connecticut register Mr.
divers name. 1t is not known whether the
speed of the machine was high at the time
but the approaches both sides are
straight and on level. The roadway on
the bridge, which is of a single truss pat
tern, is partly taken up by the street car
tracks. The supposition is that the auto
mobile ran on the bridge at high speed
and that Oliver in trying to keep clear of
wheels. skidding at the end, sent the ma
chine into the air
Story of the Accident.
A story of the accident was told after the
survivors had recovered from the shock.
The party started out at an early hour
to take a pleasure ride In the cool air, and
intended to go out Whitney avenue through
Centervlle to Cheshire, a straightaway dis
lance of about ten miles, and then return
over a country road which runs as a loop
connecting with the extension of DiXwell
avenue in this city. which route makes
course much used by autonobiiists. Oil
vers machine was of the thirty-horsepower
racing type, and the party went out Whit
ney avenue at high speed
A half mile this side of the bridge where
the accident occurred there Is hill, and
down this the machine went. In the gray
light of dawn it is thought Oliver did not
realize that the bridge was narrow and as
he was in the car tracks he turned out to
travel over the space reserved for vehicles,
but the swerving of the machine and then
the skidding of the hind wheels brought
the machine against a fence a short dis
lance from the bridge, and the momentum
impelling the machine forward sent 1t
against a stringpiece of the bridge. The
machine then went into the air.
The flight was so great that the racer
flew over the stream and landed fifteen feet
on the other bank. and then. turning a SOM
ersault, fell toward the water. The flight
of the machine threw out divers compan-
ions. but Oliver came down with the ma
chine and was crushed.
divers body was brought into this city
quickly possible, and 1t was said that
ii would be forwarded to Pittsburg during
the day.
During the morning the injured men went
to st. Anthony's House, and after surgical
attendance they were declared to be not
seriously hurt, ColSton having lost several
teeth and his nose being injured, but not
broken. 1t was further stated that all three
men probably will be out during the day
and will return to their homes.
The Victims.
PITTSBURG, Pa, me 26.-D. Leet Oil
ver who was killed In the automobile acct
dent at New Haven. was son of the late
James B. Oliver, who died one and 4 half
years ago and was one of the prominent
steel manufacturers of Pittsburg. He was
also a nephew OF George T. Oliver, pro-
prietor of the Pittsburg Gazette-Times and
acknowledgement of this city.
He leaves his mother and two sisters.
Mrs. VIM. J. Crittenden of Shields. Pa,
and the Marquise Alfred Dusmet Desmours
of Naples Italy.
The young man was twenty-one years Of
age.
BALTIMORE, Md, June 26.-J. c. Col
ston. the Yale student injured in the auto
mobile accident al New Haven today, Is the
son of Capt. Frederick NJ Colston of the
banking house of Wilson, Colston {! Co. of
Baltimore.
NEW YORK, June CIV. Strothers
Jones. who was seriously injured in an au-
tomobile accident at New Haven today, is
a son of w. S. Jones, a stock broker of this
city. The Jones home is at Red Bank. N. ].
Terrorists Are Active.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 26.-An at
tempt was made last night by terrorists to