The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18
The Autos Are Out
Seaso nof Sunday Fatalities Opens Very Gently,
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IL has caused the resumption of the reg ular Monday morning newspaper de- partment devoted to automobile acci- dents. Last Monday was rather an innOcuOus day-or else the repOrtorial machinery is not yet in good running order after it's winters rest.
 In Utica, N. Y, an automobile con- taining five persons was struck by a milk train. Fred Harvey, chauffeur Miss Julia Ellington and W. H. Van Vie are dead Mrs Van Vie is ser iously hurt and Miss Gertrude Jones is not expected to live. She comes from Fultonville, the others from Rome, N. Y.
 At Jacksonville, E. Haycroft, racing Bob Burman, crashed into 8 fence and turned turtle. He was rescued from the wreckage with his clothing ablaze.
 New York and environs, as usual furnish long list of narrow escapes, and one death.
 William Lifford died from injuries received at 1:30 o'clock on Sunday morning, when he was thrown from the automobile he was driving, at Madison Avenue and Seventy-third Street. The machine was the proper ty of William l.. Mitchell, of No. 125 Riverside Drive. The steering gear became manageable and the machine
 
 hydrant before Lifford could control it. Lifford landed on the sidewalk on his head. The machine was bad ly smashed.
 About 3:30 Sunday morning car which according to the police, is own- ed and was driven by John Harris and which contained Mrs. J. V. Wright, ager of the Douglas Shoe Store at 250 West 125th Street, and M. w. Forney, all of New York, struck stump on the Eastern Boulevard and overturn- ed Harris was caught under the tons neau and could not get free. There was a little fire and he feared that he would be burned, but he was rescued in time. None was badly hurt.
 John Corley, travelling salesman of Westchester Village, was out in his machine on Saturday afternoon with Albert Seixas, a clerk of 1,517 Haight Street, the Bronx and met on Amster- dam avenue two school teachers, Miss Ada Rooney and Miss Alice Weston. The men asked the teachers to go to a dance at City Island, and set out to return home about 1 o'clock. Then they went for spin and about 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning came along Pelham Parkway at speed of 40 miles an hour.
 ConIey noticed the wheel nearest to
 
 to stop the car He failed, and all the four jumped. Conley and the two teachers managed to get clear. but Seixas fell down an embankment with the machine after him. None of them was seriously injured.
 Rubin Freeman, real estate opera tor, collided on Dean Street, Brooklyn, Sunday afternoon with Dr. Thomas Hegeman. MT. Freeman and an H. year-old lad, George Jackson, were thrown under the machine. Passers- by lifted a corner of the machine and Freeman and the boy were extricat- ed. Neither was seriously injured. The Freeman car was wrecked, but Dr. Hegeman's escaped damage.
 Mounted Policeman Conlon found early Sunday morning four men ly- ing beside a wrecked automobile in the West Drive of Central Park, near Sixty-sixth Street The machine had struck a tree and was turned over.
 1t belonged to B. A. Armstrong of BOO West Tooth street, and had been taken out by his chauffeur, Thomas Whalen. The other men were John Lawlor, a laborer; John Foley and George Wilson of 421 West Twenty first Street. Lawlor went to the hos- pital
 Molly Kelly, a 9-year-old girl. was run down in Central Park Sunday af-
  broker/of IA West Ninety-fifth Street. She was taken to the Presbyterian hospital, with bruises of the head and body, but her condition fis not serious.
 AS Louis Meche was taking his ma chine Sunday afternoon into the ga- rage at 490 East 163d Street, John Bolton, years old, of 30 East 163d Street, ran in front of it. The ma chine knocked him down and ran over his abdomen. He will probably re- cover.
 Edward Southard of Hicksville, L. l.. was run down Sunday night by an automobile at Huntington. His right leg will probably have to be amputated.
 Nicholas Penzini, of 2,464 Hughes Avenue was riding a bicycle Sunday afternoon with his head down and ran full tilt into an automobile driven by William Campbell of 102 West 1S3d Street He was taken to the Ford ham Hospital suffering from a possi. ble concussion of the brain.
 THE JUNE BRIDE