New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-19
3 KILLED, 3 HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
Boy Running After Ball Run
Down by Big Truck-Negro's
Watch Stops as He Is Hit.
ONE DRIVER SPEEDS AWAY
On Long Island a Railroad Presi.
dents Machine Injuries Boy
and Owner Carries Him
to HOSPITAL

In automobile accidents in Nav Yorx
City and Long Island Yesterday three pe-.
sons were killed and the same number Sc
riously injured. Tho first Of the fatal ac-
cidents was the killing Of Harry Nathan.
q nine-yesr-old boy. at fosth street and
Fifth avenue, during the afternoon
The boy was PLAYING In the street when
an automobile truck owned by the United
Dressed Beef Company came UP the are
rue. The BOY ran after ball, when he
backed into the truck. The chauffeur.
Frederick Schauffert, was unable to stop
the truck before II had passed over the
boy, killing him instantly Some one called
the boys mother from their home AZ No.
50 East 1osth street. and her condition was
such that she required the services of DR..
McCallum. OF Harlem Hospital. The chauf-
feur was arrested and taken 10 the East
l04th street station.
Thaddeus Norfieet, a negro whose address
is unknown, was hit by an automobile fire
truck at 10th street and Lenox avenue last
night and instantly killed. peculiar
feature Of the accident was that the gold
watch the negro carried stopped at eih
the exact time that the truck struck him.
Norfieet was riding bicycle, when the
truck, which was returning from a fire at
18th street and Park avenue. crashed into
him and hurled him about thirty feet. An
ambulance from the Harlem Hospital was
summoned. Or. Ritter responded and pro-
nounced the man dead. The body was
taken to the East Io4th street police sta
ton.
Philip Abnet, jr a fourteen.year-old boy.
was run down and killed in the Jericho
turnpike. near Westbury, Long Island, by
an automobile driven by James n. Cook,
chauffeur employed by Moses H. ScuddeS.
president Of the ST. Joseph, South Bend T.
Southern Railway. The car was going az
the rate Of about twenty-five miles an
hour. II is said. when Cook saw the boy In
the roadway drawing a small cart filled
with apples Cook said that the lad be-
came confused and before he could bring
the automobile to a stop he ran under its
wheels. He was picked UP and rushed to
the Nassau Hospital by Mr.. scudder, who
was in the machine. The boy died soon
after arriving at the hospital.
An automobile, which the police say vas
being driven on the wrong side OF Tenth
avenue Mt l7th street, struck ard seriously
injured william wren, d idOoici, ~ A''''
$50 Tenth avenue. He Is In the New YORK
Hospital with fractured right arm, n
ternal injuries and decorations OF the head
and face.
The chauffeur Of the machine. witnesses
say, started his car at full speed after run
ming the man down. and got away. some
of the bystanders gave the police the num-
Der of the machine, which, they SAID
looked Ike a manufacturers car. but the
name Of tho owner was not made known
last night at Headquarters.
Miss Violet Gray. OF No. 272 South Nh
street. Brooklyn. was driving last night
with Daniel Donahue. of No. ISS Rutiedge
street. Brooklyn. in Donahue's automohf"
along Cropsev avenue, Bath Beach. At
Bay sth street the steering gear became
locked and the car skidded and went over
p six foot embenkment, throwing both per-
sons out. DR.. J. r. Hops. OF NO 5iS Sstb
street. Brooklyn. who came along in his
car shortly afterward. took them both IN
the Norwegian Hospital. Miss Gray was
found to be internally injured. but Dona.
hue was treated and went home.