Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-03
FRED. W. BALL
HURT IN SMASH
AFTER ARREST
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Mr.. Yaeger. "and were merely going to
Palisades Park to join the Riordai1
Athletic Association, of Harrison, the
members of which were following US
In special trolley cars from Harrison.
We we're purposely going at an easy
pace in order that the Riordan A. c..
cars might catch up to us. We had
our gas amps all burning brightly AMI
were on the right side of Newark ave-
nue. going east.
gust as we were between Sheffield
and Charlotte streets, Jersey City. We
noticed the McCreery truck and team
approaching, but on the left o. us going
| toward Newark. Quicker than t takes
to tell of II the Ball car. without n
| single light on 1t, shot toward us, evil
IDENTIFY coming from behind the Nc
Creery truck, and tried to pass In the
narrow space between our car and the
McCreery wagon, 1t ripped a hind
wheel off the wagon and gave us a ter
rible bump. Our car was made to do
two somersaults and then turned over
on its side.
Were BADLY Frightened.
Were we frightened? Well, |
| SllOulu SAA VIC W.T.. VIC itih SAhS 49,
first that someone in the party had
been killed. Nearly everyone Of the
six got badly bruised, and clothes
We're soiled and torn. We first gave
the girls attention. They were pinned
under the car and grooming. and after
some trouble We rescued them from
under the machine and felt glad to find
they we're alive. 1t was reported that
we all fled as soon as he accident
happened. That Is not so. We hung
about the place where the collision oc-
Cured about an hour, doing what we
could to help one another, and the
men in tho other automobile thai
crashed into us. Then we left the two
wrecked cars on the road and came
back on a trolley car with Motormar
Thomas Flynn to Harrison. At Rothe's
drugstore Miss Frances Ostron hao
her injuries dressed, and she was sen
homo in an auto that we got for her
as she was not able to walk. She com
planned most about soreness in n Of
her hips. The other Ave of us were
more lucky
WreckaEe ON Penn. Tracks.
The violence of the collision is evil
denced by the fact that upon thu
Pennsylvania railroad em~banknlent OF
the south side of Newark avenue ant
a dozen feet above the street leve
workmen this morning picked up pieces
of wreckage from the demolished autos
and which must have been hurled VI
on the tracks when the motor cars
rushed against each other. For al
hour and three minutes Motorn1an JOIN
Lynch. Of the Turnpike trolley line
held his car at the place of the acci'
dent, and playing the headlight upor
the party and their demolished vehi
Giles did all he could to aid the dis
tressed tourists. The motorman wa
arrested by mistake by an oficioui
Jersey City policeman, who had take
it for granted that the trolley mai
was responsible for the accident, bu
he was soon released. The girls al
had their dresses ruined, lost jewelr!
and one lost her po~cketbook.
This can easily be done ever now
if the Pennsylvania authorities will APP
ply the same rule of reason to thei
law when dealing with J~erseyrnen tina
they apply when dealing with citizen
of other States. but neither discrimina
ton, nor retaliation, nor coercion, eve
either on the part OF the agsressors !
this affair or on that Of their .Atianti
City friends win avail so long as | ar
at the head of the department"