New-York tribune., 1907-08-05
SWIFT TARBELL HURT.
AUTO CRUSHED BY CAR.
Uiiliam B. Catchings Also Serio"sl3
Injured Machine Destroyed.

Swift Tarbell. the son of Gage E Tarbell. for
merly second vice-president of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, and William b. Catch
ings, a lumberman, with offices No. % Broad
street. were seriously injured in an automobile
accident at Third and 36th street yes
terday afternoon. Emmett L. Woodson, of No
s29 West 135th street. was also In the automo-
bile. His head and body were painfully cut
Tarbe taking Mr. Catchings and Mr..
Woodson in his forty-horse power machine to
Garden City. As he crossing Third avenu :
at 36th street a soUthbound Third avenue sur
face struck the automobile, jamming it
. against L" pillar and wreckinG it completely.
All three men either thrown under the
strcetcar or iammcd between it and the auto
mobile They were taken to Bellevue. ON the
way there TarbeIl asked how badly the auto
mobile was hurt. When told it entirely de
stroyed he said he glad of it. He said that
was the last time he would ever ride in an auto
mobile
Tarbers injuries consisted Of a broken left
leg a dislocated right shoulder and Contusions
all over his body. His face and parts OF his
body were also burned by gasolenc. Catchingss :
right leg broken. one of his shoulders was
dfsIocated. and he too, suffered. general con-
tusions Woodson able to be driven TO his
home after having his injuries treated at the
hospital.
HEARD CRASH A BLOCK AWAY.
4 large crowd collected in the street immedi-
ateIy after the accident. and seventy-ive police
men of the of three stations and fifteen
plain clothes patromcn were called out to keep
it in order. Captain Byrnes who heard the
crash in the East :}5th street station, a block
away and turned out the reserves under him.
also sent in a fire alarm, fearing an explosion
of gasolene
TarbelI was on his way. to meet his father at
Garden city He slowed up at Third avenue
and both he and the motorman started at the
same time. Those who saw the accident say
that each thought tho other would wait. Seeing
l. at the last moment that the car was gong
ahead. Tarbell turned his machine south IN
Third avenue The automobile was going 50
fast that he could not turn sharply enough i"
keen off the track and the car struck it, The
/ machine was iammcd against an - pillar ten
| Yards south OF the crossing
+ Mr.. Catchings was thrown under the surface
car and wedged in tightly between the break
beam in front of the rear trucks and the pave
/ ment. Had the car gone a fc" inches further
he would have been run over. TaThcli was
jammed between the running board Of the car
and the left side Of the automobile. with one leg
+ sticking through a wheel Of tho auto Mr.
Woodson was thrown directly I'm front of the
car and jammed under the four trucks. call
to Bellevue brought three ambulances. and the
/ injured men were hurried to tho hospital
As soon as Miss Tarbelt heard her brother
! had been injured she hurried 10 Bcllevu" in an
automobile and spent the afternoon and evening
/ " th him His father was also informed and
. hurried from Garden City IN his automobile
/ Young Tarbeli while in his sophomore year a.
Princeton. I'm 1908 lost the use of his right eye
I'm a fight with Arthur G. Mount, the son OF a
/ hotekeepor oC Monmouth Junction, \. J. He
i and two friends rode over To Monmouth june
! tion on their polo ponies. After luncheon when
/ they started back TarheH found his pony had
,7s4Ir and
1 from the hostlcr. II Is said Mount appeared anu
+ seeing the blanket Tarbeus horse, accuS'd
min, of stealing IT, one Of Tarbers friends
L,ocLad Mount down and as he jumped up ne
seized a club and struck Tarbeu Just over the
. right eve Mount was sent Ia prison Tor three
,aara The case was appealed and the Court oI
Errors ordered retriaL
Tarheu has been arrested twice in New YORK
for speeding The last time was on Aprh 10,
,vhen nc was brought up before the court "I
SnociaI Sessions and fined $50 as a secohd
oxander on June - the machine ne was run
,ire, ran down n nine -year-OId boy named jr-
rome Farrell, in West S0th street. tie S'oPPe"
his machine. picked up the boy and carried hI''
- . doctor and then gave himself up 10 the
,,oIce Mrs Farrell refused 10 make com
plaint against him, and TarbelI delIaSe" an ~
penses for medical treatment
Mr. yyoodson at his home last night. said the
/ auton1obile was not speeding. but that the
/ troo,car WAS going So fast Tarbe1l could not
got ont Of the WY Mr.. Woodson was at one
/ time vice president of the Memphis Cotton fN-
] change He is nfty-fve years old and - at
present engaged as an expert on 'ie O''''"
Exchange In this city.
Mr. Catchings is a native of Mississippi tie
/ was horn I'm Vic<sburC in 1855 and was gradu-
afa, from, the University Of Virginia in 1871
. He is = cousin Of General Catchlngs, forihe-
well known Congressman from Mississippi