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DOCTOR AND ) WOMEN
DIE IN AUTO CRASH
Motor Car. Driven by Rochester
Physician, Hit by Trolley
COLLISION OCCURS AT CROSSING

Accident Happ%neo oh Steep Grade
and Passengers Say the Car Was
Going at q Rate Of Fifty Miles
an Hour.
Canandaigua. n. y Dr.. George
Waldror. a venerable physician OF
Rochester. took three Of his oldest
women patients for a he 9~lth-giving
auto jaunt in the country. At the
Fresh Hour Crossing four miles
from here. the machine was struck
by an express trolley car of the Roch-
ester and Easton Railway, and all
four were instantly killed.
Another woman patient, who was
to have joined the auto party at the
crossing, alighted from the trolley
car to step upon the body Of the doc
tor. 1t is said she will die from the
shock. & 4 g. I'd"
The dead are:
DR.. George Watd?on, ffty-four, No.
40S Plymouth avenue, Rochester.
Mrs. Catharine ~Farnsworth, sew
enty-hve, No. Il Eagle, street, Roch-
ester. 8
Mrs. William : Scandling, sixty
seven, Hopewell Hamlet.
Mrs. Jane Hobbs. seventy, OF Hope
we'll Hamlet.
Dr.. WaIdron, one of The oldest
medical men in Rochester, numbered
among his patients the richest n
best families CT the city and the
countryside for miles around. AS
one of the old school of medicine, he
believed in the fresh air" cure as
much as in drugs, and frequently
took his patients driving through the
rural districts to add the finishing
touch to his treatment.
A month ago he bought an auto.
Thinking he had mastered it, he in
vited three aged women to ride with
him to Canandaigua and back.
1T will mean ten years OF life to
YOU" be said, and bundled them into
the machine.
The thirty-miie ride to HopeWell
and part OF the return were made
without accident. But near the
Fresh Hour crossing" the auto
baked and the doctor could only get
it running in little spurts and cranky
jumps.
He blamed mis- inability 20 keep it
going on the lack of implements in
the tool boz. When the aged women
became fdgety, he jocularly took
from beneath his seat the box of
surgical instruments he always car
,sol o-l 18th 4l1 o;1 ~ tho Cno1nnl
and e pair of "nippers," tinkered the
engine into running form.
Mounting the %chaufeur's seat, DR..
Waldron drove along until he reached
the crossing of the translate trolley
system and the State road.
Cars on that line dash past at sixty
miles an hour and one of them ap-
preached at the speed limit just as
the auto stopped again, halfway
across the tracks.
Before the physician or the fright
ened women could cry out, the trolley
car had hit them. Splinters Of the
machine were hurled hundreds Of feet
in all directions. It's occupants were
thrown into a nearby pasture and
against fence and telegraph poles.
When the car had been stopped, a
hundred yards beyond, its panic
stricken passengers crowded out and
went back to find all the auto party
dead. Among these passengers was
Mrs. Leviza Baker. of Rochester, who
stepped upon the body of her physi-
clan, which lay beside the car. She
tainted from the shock.
Dr.. Waldron's neck had been
broken and his skull was crushed;
every bone was broken in the body of
Mrs. F~arnsworth and the bodies of
Mrs. Scandling and Mrs. Hobbs were
so mangleC that their husbands could
not identify them until late at night.
All the bodies were put aboard a spe-
cial car and taken to Canandaigua.