New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
Sup RACE VICTIMS
TWO DIE OUTRIGHT.
One Party Hurled Ouer Gene
tern U7aH on Way to the Scene.


ru,o ,ersons were killed and two others
rere seriously injured yesterday in auto
mobile accidents. for which the Vanderbilt
cup race was directly responsible 4 party
OF five which had started from the Hotel
Belmont 10 see the race, were carried on
the Highland Park boulevard. BrooklNh'
about o'clock in the morning, when inc
machine in which they were riding became
unmanageable through defective steering
gear. The car dashed into the stone "'''i
that surrounds the Nationai cemetery an"
turned @onpletely over
Last night s fOurteen-year-old boy was
killed in East New York by an automobile
shicb vas returning from the race.
In the early morning accident George
Pratt. twenty-five years old who was driv-
in-. pras caiapulted in the air, landing on
his back inside the cemetery. His sweet
heart, Miss Maude Costello, twenty-one
years OF age, who had been seated beside
him. was also thrown into the cemetery. as
was Miss Flora Helfner. young girl COM
panion whose escort was William Barrett. a
brokers' clerk. employed in a Wall street
Office. August Helfner was thrown out,
oIt not badly injured.
Barrett was pinned under the car when
II turned over and he died while oi'
he way 10 the Bushwick Hospital. fia'''
Miss Costello and Miss Helfner were an "''-
conscious when Charles RenneT. dri'IH7 =
car that was following the runaway car
down the hill. reached the spot
PICKED Up DYING.
F,enner ana his companions raised the
wrecked car and eNtrlra'ea barrele' Who'
IL was seen at once. was mortally hurt
he was nlaced in Reuner's car. and il was
sen, AZ TOP speed 10 the hospital, but the
doctors there said he had died on the way.
Miss Costello di6 not regain conscious
ness OH the way 20 the hospital. but after
some hours she was able 10 tell the names
oS her companions Just before dark last
1iSlt her mother. Ms Costello. of No. 3l5
West 55th street. having heari Of the acci-
dent through a. evening paper. arrived at
he hospital. and WAS permitted by the
doctor in charge TO take her daughter
home. as she was suffering only from
shock and minor ccntusions
1t was GODS mercy that saved her.
said Mrs. Costello. when seen last night
she is upstairs sleeping now. and | be-
lieVe that my big fur coat that [ gave he
when she left here at 1880 last night was
the means OF breaking her fall and saving
her from more serious injury. They were
- me sandwiches for them. and told George
Pratt. who mas known my daughter since
they went 10 school together. to be careful
and drive slow. I never dreamed that their
trip would end like this.
Poor Barrett. 7 dare not tell her he's
dead until she RECEIVERS from the shock
They were TO go from here TO the Hotel
Belmont an1 set Miss Helfner, and that IS
evidently what they did
Maud told me-" continued Mrs. Costello
that they were not going fast-that IS
fhe power was off-and the car was travel
ms all right until il came to d place where
there was a sharp turn in the road. There
Vas no street lamp there. She suddenly
saw the wall in front, she says. and she
screamed, George, stop t.-e car" The next
moment il struck the wall, and she knew
nothing more until the doctors brought her
20 in the hospital"
When asked what she knew about the
others in the party Mrs. Costello said that
Pratt lived somewhere in Brooklyn, and
that he was salesman for the Pope Hart
ford Company. whose cars he also drove
sometimes Is denonstraror She was un-
able 70 tell whether the wrecked car b.
'onged 70 Arthur n Day. Of No. 1851
Broadway. New York, or rot. IS had been
= ported
YOUNG BOY a VICTIM
According 70 the story told by Leo Bern
stein, whose brother, Emanuel. was the vic
tim Of the accident last night. his brother
and another box and himself were being
chased by several BOYS. and in their ef-
forts 10 escape the pursuers Emanuel ian
directly in front of a machine which Was
approaching a. moderate speed one Of
the wheels of the car passed over the boys
body. The chauffeur or the car. George
Simpson. Of No. AZ West 54th street. picked
The boy up aud carried him TO a drug
-lore. where he died.
Simpson was arrested ON a charge Of
homicide, but was released later. \ man
VINO was in The car. and who said that he
was q N. Elder. jr.. of No. 20 Madison
avenue, said that he was the owner Of ne
machine
Ire Bernstein boy lived 81 No 126 Cres-
cent street, East New York. and the acci-
dent happened al Ridgewood avenue and
carried 10 his mother, and she went to the
store in 2 hystericaI condition
MIS-. Bernstein took all The blame for the
acideut on her own shoulders. She said
that her boy had been spared To her four
times when he was very III, and in her
prayers she had promised 10 watch over
him and see that no harm came 10 him
dis being ran over by an automobile she
concluded. Was because she had not kept
he' promise. and she said she did not
oiaine the chauffeur or the boys who had
orlFen her son TO his death.
The TOLL OF THE ROAD.