New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-01
ALTO ACCIDENTS SHOW
WIDE DIVERSITY
eo,r Cars Turn Turtle Without
Serious Injury to Chauffeurs
or Passengers.
W E. D. STOKES HITS GIRL
Row Cyclist Crashes Through
Windshields, Nearly Bleeding
to Death-0iled Roads
Cause Trouble.

automobile accidents Of various kinds
.-a numerous yesterday, for many motor
,.,s were out in the glorious afternoon and
.o.eding their cars on the country roads.
4, Far Rockaway a boy was thrown
,,,ough a glass windshield and seriously
'.n,red. ". f. p. Stokes and his wife,
lille driving in their car. ran down a
,oung girl at 66th street and Broadway.
she &c IN a serious condition. but will re-
aver. At Mineola a car turned upside
Lawn but none Of the four occupants was
,,ured and at OssininE a similar accident
,.,uAred. with i've people in the automo-
ME None was hurt. Two automobiles
,u,nsd turtle in New Jersey without seri-
ouslv hurting any one.
One Of the strangest of these accidents
hsfell Charles y. Seaman, a seventeen
vsar.cld boy. whose bicycle ran head-on
INTO a car. Seaman was thrown over the
hood of the automobile. through the glass
windshield. fell in the car and then
slipped to the roadway. lie IS in a sori-
Gus condition
He was riding his bicycle down one
side Of Broadway, Woodmere. about tho
middle Of the afternoon. On the other
s5e was a string of automobiles. The
s.eond one in the line was the car Of Otto
cnger. who owns a garage at Rockville
c,ntre. He was in the tonneau. and Will
am Nicholson, his chauffeur. had been
irving for some time to get 70 the head of
the line.
Suddenly and without warning, Michael
son wheeled his car out Of line. trying to
gs, ahead. Seaman was pedalling along,
and looked up to be confronted by the two
automobiles that filled the roadway. He
could not stop. and went head on into the
radiator of the Cruger car.
cruger picked UP Seaman, whose chin
was almost severed and who was bleeding
prcfusely from q severed artery in his right
arm. His right thigh was broken. too.
L. B. Sharp, Of Far Rockaway, drove up
soon after the accident got his family out
q his car and was preparing to take Sea
man to St Josephs Hospital. seven miles
away al Far Rockswav. when Or. O. II.
Rohde, Of No. is Reid avenue, Brooklyn.
arrived in his machine.
Was Bleeding to Death.
That boy can't stand the trip like he Is, 80
he said. Hes bleeding 10 death
The physician made q tourniquet Of a
piece OF rope and stopped the arm from
bleeding further, and Cruger held the boy
in his lap and kept his chin in place while
his chauffeur made a record run 70 st
Josephs Hospital Seaman is a high school
boy ana the son Of Richard II. Seaman, Of
Hewlett Long Island. The accident hap
psned in Nassau County
The chauffeur vas arrested. and A. first
held in A,CM bail but Mr.. Sharp said
Nicholson had done all he could after the
accident to help the boy, and then the
chauffeur was paroled in the custody of
Mr. Cruger.
Anthony Nichols. chauffeur for IT, NJ.
snndy. Of the Hotel Plaza, Manhattan; his
wife Florence Nichols. and two friends,
lawrence Marsh and his sister, Catherine
Marsh were pinned under an automobile
10 Rneola last evening when the machine
70 Ehich they were driving turned over at
TIE RoSlyn Road and the Old Country Road
The car was going down the Roslyn Road
1t high rate Of speed when Nichols at
tempted 10 turn westward into the Old
Country Road. The machine skidded and
he rear wheels went into ditch alongside
ne road. Then the car stopped against the
hon fence Of the Queeus-Nassau Agricult-
trsl society's fair grounds. Nichols and
Ne wife were able 70 crawl from under the
E1rf he hag no he
y persons living In the ueignborh"od who
rent 10 their aid,
Nichols. Oh getting free If tho over
timed car bolted UP the Roslyn Road.
he Others we're taken 10 the home Of Fred
eek Bauer, where they were attended by
T. GUY Cleghorn who found they were
shering from sprsins and bruises but that
rsbones were broken
Arrested on Bringing Help,
Nichols ran about 4 mile to East Willis
tE, where he hired an automobile and had
The driver take him TO Nanhasset, nine
niles away At Manhasset Nichols entered
h garage Of Martin Kennedy and engaged
n automobile to take him 10 the scene Of
the accident here, also picking UP A physi-
can on the way back. on lis return
Nichols was arrested bv Captain Appleby
q the local police on 3 charge Of reckless
driving
Five persona were thrown out on the
roadway yesterday afternoon. at Ossininr
When an automobile skidded and turned
urtls near that village, but only ono
nezesr Of the party. n woman, was much
aHt and she was not dangerously in
!ueo The accident occurred on the Al
osny post road, which had hecu recently
Oisq This caused the car to skid, il IS
Supposed
IL the machine were H. 4. Wilson, of
eearsdale, his wife and two daughters
.oa Mrs. Edward = Hetzel, Of Youngs-
own Ohio, relative of the Wilson fam
ny, who is staying at Scarsdale.
4rS Hetlel, who was unconscious when
Teked up, was hurried 10 the Ossining
r0spltal. where she was attended by Drs
Hsiiey and Barnum. who succeeded in re-
,nihg her. She was taken later TO the
wilson home
W. T. D. Stokes. of the Hotel Ansoria,