The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-21
Three OF Them Badly
Injured Going Mile
a Minute.
CRASHED INTO HORSE
AND SLEIGH AT FOOT
Three Women Among Those
Crushed in Wreck on Ire
vington Hill.
| LEONARD HOLMES MAY
LOSE SIGHT TOTALLY
Harry Eyre in Hospital and Wife
Has Eye Nearly Put
Out.

bobsled with dozen YOUNG usrn
md women going down the steep old
Vinegar Hsu road, in Irs5nEfep. late
last night at n mile minute crashed
into q horse and sleigh at fhe foot Of
the hill. The horse WIS tsppicd over
those who were mot swept on OF The
bobsIed and six were injured, three
seriously.
Harry Eyre, 30 years old, of 81 Wri,-
ster street, Irv;ngton, wisa vas steering
the sled, is in St Jichse1s Hospital.
this city, with broken nose and pos
sible fracture OF the skull Leonard
Holmes. q Tiffany place. Irvington,
had his nose broken and may lose sight
of both eyes.
Miss Ida Sweitzer. a West Ciirton
avenue, iryiuston, nH1 Ive stitches
taken in a scalp wound. her jaw was
broken and it is believed she sustained
internal injuries.
Mrs. Harry Eyre sustained severe
cuts about the head and one eye was
almost put out. George1 GsanteavzhA,s ~
Tiffany place, Irvington, sustained sew
eral cuts about the face and his wrists
We're sprained.
Miss Lilly Hirschey. Of Grange place.
was cut about the face. Misses Frances
and Warena Sweii1sv. another Young
woman and three boys were not in
jured
Doctors and ambulances were called
and the injured taken 10 their homes
or the hospital
Made Many Trips.
As the guests of HARRY Eyre and his
young wife the party had made many
trips down the long hill, and II was
such great sport that they continued
until late into the night.
Iii was on the .just one morey trim
that the accident happened
With the long bob making fully
mile minute, and with the foot Of the
hill in sight a horse and sleigh contain
ing man and woman turned into Vim
egar Hill road from Wall street ami
started up the hill
Had the man driving the horse kept
to the right of the road and continued
on his course all would have been wen.
But, with the bobsled fifty feet away.
he changed his mind and started TO
turn the horse around as though he
had decided the hill was too long and
steep to climb. It was while he was
turning and the horse and sleigh were
blocking the whole road that ,.s bob
sled of merrymakers crashed into II
Those nearest the front end of the
bobsled, with Eyre driving, We're swept
off as the front sled crashed through
the runners of the sleigh and into the
legs of the horse. AS the animal top
pied he fell over on top of those who
had not been Jared off the back end Of
the sled
Entangied In wreckage.
For few minutes there was the
widest confusion. The injured seemed
to be hopelessly entangied with the
wreckage of the sleigh and bobsled
The horse struggled to get 10 his feet
and in doing so kicked several of these
who had been swept from the sled.
An imminent danger which suddenly
dawned on the wrecked party before
they could scramble to safety were the
other bcbsleds and single sleds which
We're racing down the hill after them.
But most of these were ditched at the
side of the road. apd others skidded
safely by the wreckage and the In-
jured.
Several men who were not hurt
grabbed and held the man who had
driven the sleign. but in the following
excitement he disappeared before his
identity could be discovered Several