Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-07
| DYING, z HURT IN
AUTO COLLISIONS
Trains Hit Two Cars, Taxicab
Bumps Into Third
One.
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the Pennington Fair Grounds. Chris
tan G. Rauscher, of 1874 Eighteenth
avenue, was badly hurt. He is in the
City Hospital with a fractured right
arm, left leg, fractured ribs and pos
sihle internal injuries.
Post, the G. A. r. veteran, was at
tempting to o the Lackanwanna
tracks at South Orange to board a
westbound train for Morristown. He
was-on the way to visit his wife.
Failed to See Freight.
J There are three tracks at this point
and both the freight and passenger
trains, travelling in the same direr-
ton, pulled into the station at the
same time, according to eye-wit-
nesses. The passenger train was on
the far tracks and, in crossing over.
Post failed to notice the approach
of the freight, which came in on the
centre rails.
The injured man was treated by
DIR. Alfred C. Benedict, who ordered
him rushed to- the Orange Memorial
Hospital. Examination revealed that
his skull had~been fractured. Both
OF his arms were broken and he was
internally injured.
James A. Davis was driving north
along Broad street late yesterday af-
ternoon when a Universal Automobile
Company's taxicab going the same
way ran into his wagon. @tfis was
pitched to the ground.
The horse ran away aad dashed
wildly through Broad street for ten
blocks before it was caught. Davis
was taken to the City Hospital where
it was found that he had Il fractured
skull.
Walter Forbes, % years old. of 4os
Jersey street, the chauffeur, was ar
rested and held pending the outcome
of the huckster's injuries. His wife
and mother appeared in the second
Precinct Police Court today and
begged for his release. Acting Judge
sOehring told them to 'ocure $500
bail. They returned with their bank
books, which were not considered suf-
ficient security. Then they went out
to draw $500 in cash.
The accident happened neal the
place where William n. Sanford was
run down and killed by a taxicab Of
the same firm a year ago. James
Savage, the chauffeur who was driv-
ing that machine, was later ,xon-
Grated by the courts.
Rauscher, who is nov in a seriou:
condition in the City Hospital. was
injured at a grade crossing on tho
Lehigh Valley Railroad. nea the
Flemington fair grounds yesterda.
afternoon. With two friends he wa.
riding in an automobile. As they
neare1 the railroad crossing astrair
was Seen approaching. but not il
time to avert q collision, and tbs
three men jumpeda
In jumping, Rauscher was strucl
by the wrecked machine. He wa.
placed on a train and rushed to thi
Fcity. His wife, who had expected hin
home today. knew nothing OF the ac
cident until she read it in the sta.
this morning. The other two pas
sengers escaped injury.
Another accident in which a woman
WAS hurt occurred near Caldwell yes
terday. While driving his car OF
Fairfield avenue, Fairfield, William e
Smith, a real estate dealer of Cald
well, accidentally ran his car up al
embankmcnt to avoid running over
dog. The car overturned and Mrs
Herman SchiGlin, of New York, on,
of the passengers suffered d broker
collar-bone and a compound fractur,
OF the right arm.
Miss Yetta Orsowitz, a graduate
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