The evening world., 1908-11-30
AUTO PLUNGES
into DEEP CUT
TWO MEN DYING
wby Riders in Stolen Car Crash
Through Fence Into
Trench.
MALL ON R. R. TRACKS.
accident Happened at Spot
Where Martin Conley
Jr. Was Killed.
MALL ON R. R. TRACKS.

~ Too deaths, ttoo persons probably
! 0,ortdHy hurt and more than dozen
others more or less injured Is the
automobile accident record for the
past t,oenty-tour hours One OF the
deaths and the t1oo fatal injuries re-
suited from 10Y rides" IN stolen
Gutos-one in Brooklyn early today
and the other in the BronI.
A big io-horse power touring car on
II. way from Coney Island shot
through Hunterfly road at 210 a. Nj.
to-day at terrific speed with its hve
occupants. The few persons in its path
scurried in all directions as 1t reached
Howard avenue, seemed to halt for an
instant and darted around the corner.
Then 1t shot through the avenue like
Il streak.
AT Atlantic avenue is the Long Island
Railroad tunnel. \ cut leads to the
excavation. twenty-five feet below the
surface of the street. Around the cut
Is an iron fence, strongly Embedded IN
stone fOundatlOn,
Just before he reached 1t the
chauffeur of the flying automobile saw
the fence He cried out in terror and
tried to swerve the big machine, but
was too close.
Like flash the auto struck the iron
fence, and vauting the stone founda-
ton knocked down the metal as II It
was so much grass. 1t turned almost
completely over before it struck the
bottom of the cut and spread out on
the railroad tracks complete wreck.
Seemingly by "a miracle the FIVE oC-
cupants escaped instant death. A
moaning from under the debris told
those who were stin conscious that one
of their number Was pinned beneath IT.
Charles Holman, the chauffeur, crawl
ed up the incline 10 the street level
and began to shout for help. BY the
time Policemen George Little and Rob
ert Whitman. who had heard the crash,
reached the tunnel Holman had dis
appeared in the darkness.
The policemen knew milk train was
due to pass through the tunnel in 4
few minutes and that unless the sur
vivors OF the auto accident were rescued
they would be struck by the train. One
ram up ard telephoned the railroad
ard the other hastily hauled the semi
conscious victims TO the street and
sent 20 st. Mays Hospital for an am
bulance.
The milk train Was stopped a short
distance from the tunnel. Soon DR..
Higgins arrived with an ambulance.
Burton Fenwick was found to have a
fractured skull and internal injuries
and 1t is believed win die. He was
the one pinned beneath the automobile
Frederick Blackenhorn suffered sew
eral scalp wounds, fractures of the
knees, and has possible internal inju-
ries. lie is in critical condition.
Louis Thersen had u fractured wrist
and numerous minor injuries but was
able TO go 10 his home IN Washington
avenue, Glendale.
John Hernz. OF No. 227 Webster ave
nue. Glendale, had bruises of the head
and. it is believed, internal injuries
After lie had been treated by DIR. Hig-
gins he mysteriously disappeared. and
the police have sent out genera
alarm for him, as he is wanted as @
witness.
The reserves of the Liberty avenue
station were called out soon after the
accident. All traffic on the Long Island
Railroad was stopped for almost three
hours, while the wreck Of the big auto
mobile vas being removed from the cut
sF Auto Was Stolen.
fsssrhe police learned that the car be
Ionged to Miss Jennie Gascoine, n prom.
nent real estate woman Of Brooklyn
living at No. III Stuyyesant avenue, an'
tina, Holman. the chauffeur. - ne
She said he had no permission to TAX
out the car She had him take her Il
r. Woodhaveu to visit friends last evening
she said, and when he brought her bacl
at $50 Z. VI. she told MIN to take IN
machine TO the garage.
dale. found his friends, and they, wen
FOR an evening at Coney Island
Holman was later found at his hom'
by the police, not seriously hurt. IA.
said he had permission to use the ma
chine whenever he wanted to. and tina
Island last night.
I through Toward avenue on his wa,
back to Glendale. because 1t was asphalt
l. ed. and forgot about the railroad Gu
until he was SO close upon IL he coulS
so frightened that he ran off to hi
home
same place on oct II last, when an aut
went down the cut after n race through
Howard avenue and killed Martin Con
politician. on this occasion. also. tn
chauffeur escaped serious injury AM
:. disappeared after the accident. but wa
later caught.