New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-03
AUTO TURNS TURTLE;
OPERA SINGER INJURED
Dr.. Rambaud, His Wife, Nine.
Gervi||e-ReaChe, and Party
Thrown Out.
THEIR BABY BOY UNHURT
Head of Pasteur Institute, This
City, in Poughkeepsie Hospital,
Seriously Injured - Six
Others Hurt in Smash.

| touring automobile when it turned
somersault on state road, three miles
from this city to-day. baby boy was
the only one that escaped without a
scratch.
The others, including DR.. George Ram
baud. head of the Pasteur Institute,
New York. and his wife, we'll known as
Mime. Gervile- Reache, the former con-
tralto Of the Manhattan opera House.
and now under contract with the Metro
politan forces. were injured to such ex-
tent that all had to be removed to
Vassar Hospital. where it was said to-
night that the condition Of all, excepting
Dr. Rambaud, was distinctly favorable
! TO recovery.
The injured:
RAMBAUD. DR.. George. contuslons On side
and abdomen and. possibly internal in
| juries; most seriously hurt.
RAMBAUD. Mime general contusions. with an
open wound I'm body. condition good; VIII
GERvILLE Mile. Valentine. sister Of Nine
Rambaud general injuries about head;
| condition good. will recover
| LEURENT. Mile. Paue and Mile. smone.
nieces Of Nine. Rambaud general contu-
| sions will recover.
STILES, kingsley. Adirondack guide, broken
JAQUoT Albert. chauffeur contusions able
TO 60 TO New York by train.
The infant son Of DR.. Rambaud, Paul
two years old. was not injured in the
| least, but was taken to the hospital with
his parents.
The accident happened on the Violet
avenue state road. one Of a number Of
| inside roads now being used by tourists
because of extensive repairs at various
points on the Albany-New York Post
Road. Three miles from Poughkeepsie
there Is a sharp curve, on which num-
| ber Of similar. but less serious, accidents
| have occurred.
The party had been at Saranac Lake.
en- vacation. and were returning TO New
| York by way OF Albany. where they
STAYED last night and resumed their
| Journey early this morning. Dr. Ram
baud was driving. with the chauffeur on
the seat beside him. In the back seats
! were Nine. Rambaud, holding her baby,
Paul; her sister and the two nieces and
the Adirondack guide, who were guests
of DR.. and Mrs. Rambaud The guide
had served the party In the mountains
and had been invited by the doctor TO
ride to New York with them
After leaving Rhlnebeck the party fol-
! lowed the inside roads TO avoid the Post
Road improvements. and approached the
dangerous curve about 10 o'clock, trav-
cling about thirty miles an hour. They
| had never been over this road and, from
the north, the turn appeared 10 be slight.
There seemed no need Of reducing speed,
but before the curve was rounded Dr'
| Rambaud perceived his mistake, and
attempted to apply the brakes. Almost
at the same instant the big car gave a
| lurch to the left and then rose in the
air. and turned over with such violence
that all the occupants were thrown out
into n field by the side of the road.
Fortunately none was under the ar
when It came crashing down bottom
side up.
lust before reaching the curve the car
had passed a farmers wife on foot, and
hardly two minutes had elapsed when
this woman came In sight of the wrecked
car and saw the tourists. most of them
living unconscious by the roadside. with
the chauffeur least injured Of all. the
adults trying to make the others COM
Portable. The baby, after having been
thrown twenty feet. lay in the field cry
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The farmers wife passed the car and
ran down the road, calling for help. She
soon came up with William Ackert.
Poughkeepsie carpenter, whom she told
Of the accident Ackert climbed through
the window Of the nearest farmhouse.
the family being absent, and telephoned
10 Police Headquarters. Physicians
we're rushed TO the scene in the police
motor car, followed by the Nassar Hos
pital ambulan and these conveyances.
with several automobiles. took the in
jured people to the hospital.
Late tonight Or. Mofiit. Of Nassar
Hospital. announced that Or. Rambaud
had suffered a rupture of the small in
testines. An operation was performed.
and DIR. Moffit said it would be three or
four days before he could determine
what the ultimate outcome Of DR.. Ram
haud's injuries would be.
Dr George Gibier Rambaud. who sue
ceeded his uncle. Or. Paul Gibier, as d.
rector of Pasteur Institute. after the death
Of the latter in 1900. Is thirty-sx years old
He IL a native OF France and was educated
in France and at Columbia lie has made
an international reputation as specialist
in the treatment OF tetanus and rabies. He
introduced a new operation for serum treat
,nent of tetanus AMI performed the first one
n, its kind in this country. lie also de-
,ised an Improvement in dispensing vaccine
Ivmph which is now I'm general use
DIR Rambaud married in 1900 Miss Lulu
Fowler Bryan. OF Houston. Tex, whom he
treated for rabies following bite by pet
cat. Three years later he again saved her
from death. this time. strangely enough In
a collision at Seventh avenue and 34th
street. Mrs Rambaud became her hus-
hands lifesaver the next year. VIXEN the
discharge Of shotgun severed an artery
while they were staying at Saranac Lake
She checked the flow OF blood and rowed
him long distance TN medical aid was
found.
In 1905 Or. Rambaud figured in a mystic
rlous incident in which he disappeared for
some time. There were rumors that he had
been abducted and the affair was never
clearly explained. -Four years later Mrs
Rambaud divorced him. The doctor imme-
diately began to pay attentions TO Nine.
Gerville- Reache. the opera singer and that
fall they were secretly married.
U. S. MiDDIES AT GIBRALTAR.