The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-06-19
1 BIG AUTOMOBILE !
LEAPS INTO. THE RIVER
Two Women and a Child Lose Their
lives.
CAR soMERsAUL1s FROM PIER.
Car Becomes Unmansgeable While
Speeding Toward Waterfront in New
York, Runs Out to End Of Pier.
Strikes Stringpiece and Turns q
Cnmnlatn SnmeraauIt.


New York Especially A big. high
powered, covered touring car raced
down West Fifty-sixth Street veering
drunkenly from one side of the
street to the other. Two men sat in
front, and in the covered tonneau
were another man, two women and
a little girl. AS the car rushed on
toward the North River, the women
and the girl screamed and covered
back in their seats. The chauffeurs
tried in vain to turn into Eleventh
Avenue, and the car went on down
the length of the pier and, striking
the stringpiece at the end, turned a
somersault into the river.
Just before reaching the end Of
the pier the man sitting with the
chauffer jumped and, landing safely,
ran away. The man, two women and
girl in the tonneau were drowned.
The chauffeur, after going down with
the automobile, freed himself and
swan to the pier He was pulled
out by men on the pier, and he also
ran away.
The car was Renault, belonging
to Mrs. c. S. Elebash, of 80 West
Eighty-third Street, the widow of DR..
Clarence Summers Elebash, an eye
and ear specialist, who died about
four years ago. She is to be married
this week to Bedell H. Harmed, of
265 Central Park West, private sec
rotary for Frank J. Gould. She lives
in the former home of Louis v. Bell,
the horseman, with her mother, her
sister and her 10-year-old son, Bats
ley
Mrs. Elebash keeps her car in Mr..
Gould's garage, at 218 West Fifty
eighth Street. After spending the
afternoon shopping she told her
chauffeur, John Bauer, of "a Main
Avenue, Maspeth, L. T., to return
Immediately to the garage and
change his clothes, as he was very
wet. The car, she also told him,
would have to go to the shop at once,
as it was in poor condition and the
top leaked badly.
Bauer, however, did not return to
the garage. He drove to 531 West
Fifty-frst Street and invited some
friends to come for a ride. John
Nolan, a friend of Bauer, and himself
a chauffeur, lives in the house. No
Ian is member of the Twelfth Regi-
ment, where one of his friends is
John Coleman, who also lives in the
same house.
So Bauer asked Coleman, the lat
ter's wife, Rosie; Adelaide Berdon,
10 years old, who lives next door
and keeps house for her father, AL
bert Berdon, bookbinder, and Mrs.
Coleman's eight-year-old sister, Vir-
ginia Knight. to go along.
They went through Fifty-frst
Street to Tenth Avenue and up Tenth
Avenue to Fifty-sixth Street. Bauer
started up the machine and speeded
down toward the dock. In a state
ment Bauer said that when he got
near the dock he tried to apply the
brake and found that it would not
work.
The machine was going at fast
pace, and just before it reached the
end OF the pier Nolan jumped. John
B.. Lackcon, of 494 Fourth Avenue,
Brooklyn, and Henry Marsh, who
worked on lighters nearby, saw the
machine go into the water and ran
up In time to throw rope to Bauer.
William Collins and William
Dougherty, both experienced divers
+ stripped and dove to the point where
the machine had gone into the water
1t was we'll over an hour before they
were able to find any bodies.
At last they got those of Mrs,
Coleman and Miss Burden out of the
tonneau, and, ripping off the top OF
the machine, placed the bodies in
the top. A rope was attached to the
top and the bodies were hauled up to
to the pier, from which the patrol
8 wagon took them to the station
house. 1t was another hour before
Coleman's body was recovered. '-T The
body OF the child Is penned UP in the
machine, which has not been raised