Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-04

'ushN Sie wears old.
MOTIFS lives with his parents on the
second floor of the tenement at 1888
Spruce street. He went up stairs this
morning to play on the back porch with
jennie. They romped around, guarded
from falling into the yard by the porch
railing
Then without warning the entire length
OF railing gave way. The two children
caught unawares, toppled into the yarti
Jennie struck a clothesiine and bounded
off, but nothing interviewed to break tho
force of her companion's fall.
The children, both unconscious and ter
rlbly crushed, We're tenderly picked up
and carried Into the office of DR.. ID. NJ.
Shack, of 17S Spruce street.
This was between $40 and 9:45 a. N.
Despite every effort 1t was impossible
to get an ambulance to answer the cali
before 1915.
The Fourth Precinct ambulance had
just been to a Norfolk street fire OF no
Importance. At 9:A5 II started to the
sixth Precinct with some prisoners.
one of the City Hospital anlbnlances
had gone to the overbrook Hospital for
the Insane with patients at S:35. 1t res
turned at 9:55 and went out Immediately
to call at Evergreen and Frelinghuyse1
| i'll.
The other City Hospital ambulance
went to 1884 Frelinghuysen avenue upon
another minor emergency call at $40,
four minutes before the call for the
children was received. 1t returned and
went out again to the Goeller Iron
| Works at 100s
Meanwhile. Or. Shack, who thought
/ both children would not live, was franz
tically trying to urge the police to
| greater efforts
I Captain vogel of the Fourth precinct,
i telephoned TO the Sixth to rush tue nc;
llice ambulance back to the Spruce&Ssf -
house. In the meanwhile the iiesN 4 /
4 ters operator tried to read the NSat /
precinct ambulance. VI, TOD. had answffof
the Evergreen exd Frelinghuysen avelrs
! call, where a City Hospital ambulanes
| had alrendy gone. The First precinct
wagon did not return until 10:15.
Finally the Fourth precinct ambulance
arrived at the Doctors house. The un-
conscious children were then removed to
Beth Israel There 1t vas reported mt
noon that they had Il lighting chance 10
| live
The boy has u fractured skull. both legs
broken and probable internal injuries The
girl. 1t is thought. escaped a fractured
skull but her condition is only slightly
less serious.
|
and F'itzslmmons started an investiga-
| tion.
Mrs Mary Debausky was wild with
anguish.
"Ob. why did 1t happen?' she walled.
''It was that rotten railing. The land-
lords son came over when my little girl
was being carried away. and he sneered
at me and I said, Look what rotten rail-
| ings you have on the housei !"
| A. Nisenson. Of 1s9 Spruce street. the
owner. asserted that he had not tho
! least suspicion that the railing was de-
! cnyed
II am as much broken up about 1t AZ
| they" be said. They are quick enougn
| to run across the street to complain about
n lock being out of order. or something
| like that, but none one of them told ms
| that the railing was rotten If | has
| known It, | wouldn't have let It stay q
| day"
| Charles Nisenson denied that he had
| spoken disrespectfully to Mrs, DebausKy
| after the accident.
| The men who picked the children mp
aud carried them to the physician's office
were lsador Goldenberg and Morris
| Sehachat both of 1856 Spruce street.