Evening star., 1909-07-17
WH|RLED TO DEATH
Occupants of Motor Car
Struck by Express Train.
ONE DIES FROM INJURIES
Another May Succumb and Third Is
in Critical Condition.
SURVIVOR TELLS OF ACCIDENT
Gates at Crossing Down. He Says,
But No Lights Were Seen and
Danger Was unsupported.
ONE DIES FROM INJURIES
SURVIVOR TELLS OF ACCIDENT
Special Dispatch 10 The Star

! Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
| NEW YORK, July 1I.-One man is
| dead and two are in ST. Johns Hospital
| seriously hurt the result of smash
when the Port Washington express of
the Long Island railroad ran down and
wrecked large touring car in which
| were seated four persons at 80 o'clock
this morning at Thompson's Crossing
| Winfield. l.. l. The accident happened
| in flash and the large automobile and
| its four occupants We're hurled to one
1 side. The engineer brought his train
| to a stop some distance up the road.
| Backing up, the crew and passengers
piled out and ran to the relief of the
| injured men. who were found uncon-
Scious on the tracks.
The Dead and Injured.
| Edward Hurley, deputy sheriff Of
Glen Cove. l.. L.. died on his way to
the hospital Allen Perry. twenty five
years DID, a summer resident of Sea
| Cliff, is suffering from a concussion of
the brain. his left eye was destroyed and
he will probably die. as the surgeons
believe he has, sustained internal in
| juries. Archie D. Tappan. twenty-siX
years old, whose summer home is at
| York at the Frontenac apartment house,
39s West 9Sth street, suffers from a
| fractured right thigh. a lacerated foot
and ankle, body bruises and internal in
juries. His condition is serious. The
! fourth occupant of the car was Horace
| c. Sherwood. also of Glen Cove, who
escaped with minor hurts
Sherwood is the only one who Is able
! to tell anything of the accident. The
wonder is how he ever escaped the fate
! of his companions. He sat in the front
seat with Tappan. who was at the
| wheel At ST. Johns Hospital this
morning he gave this version:
Crossing Lights Not Seen
I'VE were out for spin in the SPEEDY
touring car, which is owned by Mr..
Tappan.s We had hit up pretty g6Ud'
clip. 1 sat with Tappan on the front
seat, and in the back were Hurley and
Perry. We were whizzing along pretty
fast on Thompson avenue and ran
plumb through the railway gates which
were guarding the crossing. These gates
were down, but we did not know it, as
there were no lights in view to warn
us. As Tappan got close to the bars ne
saw that the way was blocked, but II
was too late. although he tried to avoid
the impending peril on the tracks by
| turning his wheel quickly in an effort
to run his car into a ditch. But we
went through and out on to the tracks
and then the express struck U.S.
When the rapid express got through
with the heavy touring car it was moth
ing but heap of junk. While hurried
messages We're sent for medical aid a
large automobile came up 10 the scene.
The injured men were placed in this
and hurried to ST Johns Hospital, but
Deputy Sheriff Hurley died on the way.
The four victims of the auto accident
W o in a lIr11Yn
MES of Long Island and are persons of
means. Tappan. who owned and oper-
ated the wrecked car. is a son of Eu-
| gene Tappan. The young men had been
out for an evenings sport and 1t is be-
| lieved that they were returning to their
homes when the accident happened.