New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
AUTO CRASHES INTO
CARRIAGE; KILLS GIRL
Then Speeds On, According to
Witness, Who Gives Chase
in Another Machine.
TWO COMPANIONS INJURED
Accident at Dark Place in Pei
ham Parkway, Big Car Crash
ing Into Runabout from
Behind.

Going at a rate of about fifty miles an
hour along Pelham Parkway about 9:4o
o'clock last night. a large touring car
ran into a one-horse runabout, throw
ing its three passengers to the
uacadanized roadway, killing one OF
them. Miss Grace Hough. twenty-one
wears old. of 10th street, near Bathgate
avenue, The Bronx, and injuring George
Fedder, of No. 2262 Bathgate avenue
and Miss Anna McCabe, of No. 425 East
113d street Miss Hough's neck was
broken and she died almost instantly.
Miss McCabe's left arm was severely
lacerated. and she was internally IN
iured as we'll Feeders back and head
were cut. It was said later at the For
dam Hospital that neither of the sur
vivors was in serious condition.
The accident occurred at point oppo-
site Cleveland avenue. where the farh-
wav swerves slightly from east to west
The runabout, which was without tail
lights. was midway on this curve when
the touring car came up from behind
and crashed into it. Without a stop II
continued on its way northward.
lanes Dean. of No. 941 Amsterdam
avenue. who was riding in his automobile
close behind the touring car on MS way
to City Island, seeing what had nap
pened. gave chase. He told the pouce
later that he had pursued the car as Tar
as New Rochelle, where, finding that all
hone of overtaking it was vain. he aban-
doned the chase and returned to the
scene Of the accident, where he toid
Patroln1an Coster. of the Westchester
station. what he thought the license num-
her of the touring car was.
Tried to Stop the Car.
Coster who is a mounted man, IN
statement made to Coroner SchWanneke'
when that official began an investigation
of the accident, said that about five MIN
utes before the crash he had seen the
touring car speeding along the PARK
Uay. He was then at point about
three blocks below Cleveland avenue
He shouted to the occupants OF the car
as it whizzed by. but they paid no at
tention to his command to halt. He put
the spurs to his horse. but at the same
instant he realized that it would be
futile for him to attempt to pursue the
acing automobile. He reined his morse
and stood in the middle of the road look
ing after the car
He was still looking at the dust
thrown by the automobile, when a Mr..
DoIand. who lives on City Island, rushed
ND TO him all out of breath and told him
of the accident. Doland was crossing
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad bridge, which is less than one
hundred feet north of where the acci-
dent occurred, he told the policeman,
when he heard crash on the Parkway.
He turned around hastily and saw the
big touring car dashfng onward with
out moments pause, and saw MISS
Hough, Miss McCabe and Feeder
stretched out on the roadway. He ran
70 the end of the bridge and back to
the roadway. BY the time he reached
the scene of the accident. Fedder had
recovered consciousness and was bend
ing over Miss Hough, who was dying.
Miss McCabe was lying a few feet away,
unconscious.
Girls Neck Was Broken.
coster called an ambulance from Ford
ham Hospital, and Or. Hoy examined
A,ias Hough and found that her neck
a,os broker. Before the ambulence ar