New-York tribune., 1907-06-27
CRUSHED UNDER AUTO.
Death Of d. L. OIiver, Of I'atsbmg,
SpoIs Yale Fun.

Ee.. Haven, June pa bad accident. caus-
ing the death Of one undergraduate and in
jl.-fes more or less serious TO two other stu
dents and TO guest, cast gloom over the com
meae7mont exercises at Yale University to-day
TIE victim was D. Leet Oliver. son OF arrs. J 3.
Oliver. Of I'ittsburg, q senior in Sheffield scfen-
tifc School a member of the Tea Company
fraternity and one of the most prominent So
cia3iE Of the upper class men. The injured are
" 5trotheTs Jones of Red Bank, N j. a
"sheT" junior, the son OF W s. Jones, a New
York stock broker; John a. c. Colston. a senior
in he same department, son of Captain Fred
erick II. Coston. Of the banking house OF Will
son. ColstOn - Co, Of baltimore and Z. Hud-
son. q commencement guest, all of whom were
living at st Anthonys" the Tea Company
CHAPTER house
The party started out At an early hour in
young divers automobile 70 take 4 pleasure
rice in the cool air and intended to so out Whit
ney avenue through Centreville TO Cheshire
etraightaway course Of 8 bout ten miles. divers
machine was Of the 30-horseDower racing type,
and the party went cut Whitney avenue at 4
high speed
4 haIf-mile this side Of a bridge in CentreviIle
which spans small stream giving power to the
New Haven Web Company there is q hill, and
down this the machine went. In the gray light
OF daNl, il Is thought, Oliver did not realize
that the bridge was narrow. and as he was IN
the car tracks. he turned ont to travel over the
srace reserved for vehicles. But the swerving
or The machine and then the slzidding OF the hind
wheels brought the against q fence a short
distance from the bridge. From this it carromed
against a stTingpiece OF the bridge, then went
into the air. and, the momentum being great
few over the stream. and landed fifteen feet on
the other hank. Then, turning = somesauIt, il
fell toward the water. The three other members
Of the party We're hurled ont. hut Oliver came
down with the machine His back was crushed
and he died almost Instantly.
divers body brought into this city q
Ia and ,7o7
burg late this afternoon IN care Of William J
Crittenden, Of Mexico City, the young mans
brother-in-law, who happened 10 be in New
York and was reached by wire in the morning
Mrs. Oliver, the mother. was at Shields, Penn
when word was sent TO her Of the accident
The injured members of the party were re-
ceived at st. Anthony's and after surgical at
tendance they We're declared 10 be not seriously
hurt young Colston having lost several teeth
and injuring his nose
Pittsburg. June 25.-D. Leet Oliver, who was
killed in the automobile accident at New Haven.
was son Of the late James 3. Oliver who died
year and a half ago and was one of the proni-
nent steel manufacturers of Pittsburg. He was
also nephew Of George 7. Oliver, proprietor Of
THE Pittsburg Times and "Chronicle-
Telegraph" He leaves his mother and two sis
tiers. Mrs. William J. Crittenden. Of Shields
Penn, and the Marquise Alfred Dusnlet Des-
nlours, OF Naples, Italy. The young man was
twenty-one years old.
Young Oliver was completing HIS third year IT
Yale and was expected home in a few days. He
was here only last week TO attend the wedding
Of his sister, Miss Amelia Neville Oliver and
William J. Crittenden, son Of Ex-Governor Crit
tendon Of Missouri On that occasion he gave
his sisters hand IN marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Crittenden are now on their we'd
ding trip which 10 have been TO Mexico.
starting tomorrow from New York where they
had gone Immediately after their marriage.