Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-26

the car.
Myrtle Fest, sixteen years old, daugh-
ter of Charles Fest, injured about limbs.
Mr.. Fest and his daughter went to
Collingswood yesterday to pay a visit
to Mr. Davis and his family. In the
afternoon Mr.. Davis started out IN his
automobile to take his guests for q
ride, and with them went Mr.. Mackey,
who acted as driver. and the latter
wife
AFTER riding about the country and
nearby towns they started for home. ana
were proceeding out Essex street, Glou-
cester. at a slow rate OF speed ana oid
not see a fast approaching southbouhq
Glassboro electric train lowing to their
view being INSTRUCTED by houses. and the
automobile was struck midway OF the
tracks.
All Are Thrown Out.
Mr.. Mackey saw the headlights just rs
the train was on them and attempted to
turn his machine. The machine was
thrown up against a telegraph pole. Mr..
Davis, Mr. Fest and Mrs. Mackey were
thrown out and struck the pole, while MIR.
Mackey and Miss Fest escaped the pole,
but were thrown heavily to the ground.
The motorman brought the train to a
stop, and passengers rushed to the assist.
residents In that vicinity. 1t was found
that Mr. Davis and Mr.. Fest were dead
and that Mrs. Mackey was still living.
She was picked up and cared for by
physician who was on the train until the
arrival Of a steam train few minutes
later. The injured woman fas placed
aboard, and the train started for Camden
in an effort to get her to Cooper Hospital.
She died on the way.
Mr.. Mackey and Miss Fest regained
their feet and were taken to the home OF
William Howarth. An examination show
ed that they were not seriously injured.
GS-ON-HUDSON, N. Y, Sep
have been in excess Of mile minute.
an automobile containing two young
women and two men plunged through
an iron picket fence and over an
eighteen-fcot embahknent In this village
at o'clock yesterday. morning. One
young woman was killed. the other was
mortally injured and the two men were
torn and bruised. The injured are In the
Dobbs Ferry Hospital.
The dead-Miss Marion Morgan, twenty
Ave years old, No. AZ West 139th street.
New York city; pinned under the wreck
ed machine; her back broken; died with
in half an hour.
The injured-Miss Mary Mullen, twen-
ty-tve years cd, o. 81 East i4sth street,
the Bronx; left arm and shoulder broken
and internally injured: will die.
William O'Brien. thirty years old. OF
303 East 139th street, the Bronx; left arm,
collarbone apd shoulder blade broken.
Robert Reilly. twenty-eight years old,
No. 7s1 Prospect avenue, the Bronx,
chauffeur; left arm broken.
The accident happened on the curve OF
the Old Albany post ROAD, at the foot OF
Church Hill, near the intersection Of Main
street. The automobile was owned by the
Wilson Distillery Company Of New York,
employers of the chauffeur, Reilly.
Her First Auto Ride.
1t, was the first time Miss Morgan had
ever ridden In an automobile, and she
consented to accompany Miss Mullen and
the two men Saturday evening only on
condition that the party return to her
home in New York before midnight.
The Church hill is considered one Of the
most dangerous in this section. The
curve toward Main street is at the foot
of nearly three-quarters OF a mile de-
cline, down which the machine was
speeding.
Ruts more than four inches deep in the
roadway at the base OF the hill show the
efforts Of Reilly to check the speed OF the
machine by clamping the emergency
brake on the wheels The momentum
jumped the curbing, crashed through an
iron fence and low stone wall and fell
down the embankment.
Miss Morgan, who sat on the front seat.
was crushed under the front of the ma
chine Her companions were tossed clear
of the wreckage into vegetable garden.
All were rendered unconscious except
Reilly, who, although unable to rise,
The calls for help were heard BY Rob
ert English. the caretaker on the Chr1sty
property whose cottage was nearby.
Within fifteen minutes half dozen men
were trying to lift the machine and re-
move Miss Morgan.
Miss Morgan died a few minutes after
she was carried into the Dobbs Ferry
Hospital.
Hit by Freight Car.
CLEVELAND. Ohio. September 26.-
Backing his automobile across country
road in an attempt to reach a. private
driveway. DR.. Morris D. Stepp, prominent
Cleveland surgeon. drove his machine d.
rectly before a speeding electric freight
car late Saturday. The machine was
hurled into the air, and in a moment
Mrs. Step and her son, Morris, aged
eight and an infant daughter. were kill
ed. Dr. Stepp was taken to hospital,
where it was found that he Rad sus-
tanned three fractured ribs and internal
injuries.
YONKERS, N. Y. September c6.-Run
down by an automobile. after stepping
from q street car at Warburton and Ra-
vine avenues, Horace l.. Shropshire,
fourteen years old. OF No. 395 Warburton
avenue, was seriously injured last night.
One of his ribs was crushed, and 1t is
believed that his lung may have been
pierced.
The automobile was driven by Arthur
summerfield Of No. pa West SD street,
Manhattan. In the car also were E. 1.
Taylor, of No 316 Broadway, and two
women. The ear was on its way to
Manhattan and was running At a speed
Of seven miles an hour. Summerfield
was unable to stop the car in time to
avoid striking the boy. who ran. from
behind the street car, directly in the path
Of the automobile
NEW YORK. September 2s.-whiIe
homeward bound after participation In
the eleventh annual run conducted by
the New York state committee OF the
Century Road Club OF America, Leonard
Wooley Of jefferson place, the Bronx, was
knocked from his bicycle near Flora Park,
L. l., yesterday, by passing automobile.
and was injured so badly that the physi-
clans in Jamaica Hospital. to which he
was taken, do not believe he can re-
cover.
The machine which struck Wool4y sped
IN and alfhou9h he Was acaoYIhr3A nlAd An