New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-28
AUTO HIT BY 2 TRAINS
FOUR OCCUPANTS ESCAPE.
Machine Tipped Orer by One Er-
press. Is Tossed bN .inOthcr.

touring car in which were two men and two
women. ran headlong into the Port Jefferson
Express. west bound. on It's way to Long Island
City yesterday evening and was thrown across
10 the eastbound tracks. There II was struck
two minutes later by an eastbound express and
broken into q thousand pieces. a few seconds
after the party IN the car had leaped 10 safety.
Had the latter train been exactly on schedule
time all four persons would have been instantly
killed. AS IL happened. only one Of the men was
slightly cut about the head. while the other
occupants OF the automobile were badly shaken
up and scared.
I. was AT b:23 p. m. that the westbound ex-
press which runs between Port Jefferson and
Long Island City. went thundering past Hyde
Parke station at more than a mile minute.
Calligan the engineer at the throttle. AS
the train reached Whites Lane. short distance
from the station. ne felt a slight jar, followed by
binding fash OF steam. A moment later the
train stopped
When Caigan ran back 20 what the
trouble was he perceived the automobile. which
had been completely overturned. lying on the
eastbound tracks. It's four occupants. DR. Will
lam $. Hubbard. Of No. 1873 Bergen street.
Brooklyn: his mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard.
and Mr. and Mrs a &. Weaver. Of No. l23 I'd
street Newhurg. " Y. were lying beside the
started 10 rush to their assistance eastbound
express train loomed UP at fun speed about two
hundred yards away. Calligan shouted fran
tically 20 the PROSTATE figures on the track
pecting 10 them ground 20 pieces beneath
the oncoming train.
When the express about fifty yards dis
tant. however. the four people scrambled 10 their
feet and rolled down an embankment beside the
track, barely escaping the wheels. The speed
ing train caught the overturned machine square
i'm the middle and tossed II fully fifty feet into
the air. and To side. demolishing IL COM
pletely.
DIR. Weaver said that the machine had just
reached the rise in the road leading over the
tracks when the westbound express train ap-
pea-ed IN sight. II too late 10 stop. He
was driving the car. and knew that ne could not
cross the tracks without being struck In this
perilous situation ne kept cool head and Je
termined To- take the desperate chance Of being
sidewiped 10y the train in preference to meet
ing it head on. This he did. pulling the wheel
Of his car about with such force that the ma
chine was brought to a position parallel with
the train. DIR. Weaver yelled To his companions
10 jump for their lives. and they had just risen
To their feet when the mud guard of the auto
mobile was struck by the stopcock of the blow
off tube on the engine
Instantly the machine was overturned on It's
side while the breaking of the stopcock allowed
all the steam in the engine boiler To escape. the
train and automobile being enveloped i'm clouds
of steam. The occupants of the automo-
bile were thrown into the middle. OF the east
bound track. The engine kept for two hun
dred yards. and came 20 a stop when all the
steam had escaped.