The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-08-04
Party Returning From Din
ner Given by w. X.
Vanderbilt, Jr.
CHAUFFEUR ALSO KILLED
Mrs. Pcll in Car Ahead With
Host-Accident Happened
Near Long Beach.

S. Osgood Pell, the real estate man.
and his chauffeur. William Gambcan,
were instantly killed about 10 o'clock
last night by a Long Island Railroad
train, which struck Pelrs car about u
mile west Of Long Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Laimbeer, in
the same car. were badly injured and
Mr.. Laimbeer is likely to die. William
X. Vanderbilt. Jr.. was in an automobile
with Mrs. s. Osgood Pel. about fifty
feet in front OF Mr. Pell's car. lie heard
the crash and cries behind him.
He realized what had happened and
his first thought was for Mrs. Pell. He
drove on some distance, turned about as
| IL to look for the Pell automobile. and
! then quietly remarked to Mrs. Pell that
ne guessed something had happened to
it, and ne would drive back to Long
Beach and rejoin the rest of the party
there.
| Mrs. Pcll was safely in the Nassau
Hotel when she heard of her husba nds
death. MIR. Vanderbilt Immediately
went back to the scene of the wreck
| Guests of W. X. Vanderbilt, Jr.
The train was due at Long Beach At
1910 o'clock from New York. The only
route for automobiles departing from
Long Beach crosses the track on the
mainland near what used TO he called
the Jacket Island station. Mr. Pclls
automobile was taking this crossing at
about thirty miles an hour when it was
struck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pell and Mr.. and Mrs.
I.aimbeer drove over from their country
estates on Long Island yesterday after
noon to be the guests OF William X.
Vanderbilt. Jr. at the Nassau Hotel at
dinner. Their table was In the main
dining room. About a dozen persons
were in the party. The dinner ended
about $3.50 o'clock and the guests scat
tered Mr.. and Mrs. Pell expected to
return to their home in Wheatley Hills.
Westbury.
The Vanderbilt car. a roadster driven
by Mr.. Vanderbilt. led the way across
Wrecklead. the branch Of Hampstead
Bay which separates Long Beach from
the mainland.
No Gates At CrOssing.
A little way behind rolled Mr.. Pell's
big touring car. followed by a third
automobile. in which was Royal Turner.
son Of Charles H. Turner a New York
lumber merchant. Mr.. Vanderbilt In
the lead. did not see the approaching
express. There are no gates at the
crossing. and 1t is said that no fiagman
was stationed there last night.
MIR. Pell and his chauffeur were on
the locomotives blow. Apparently
without warning the train bore down
on them and in an instant the automo-
bile was in splinters. The front part
about two hundred feet.
Mr.. Pell and his chauffeur were ter
ribly crushed. but on Mr.. Pell's face
there was scarcely a mark. The
, chauffeur was identified by his IL
cense card and receipt for Mr..
Pell from the Wells Fargo Express
Company. Mr.. Laimbeer and his wife
we're thrown through the al and rolled
into ditch beside the track.
Bodies Found Beside Track.
The only person near by at the
moment was Royal Turner. He took
Mr. and Mrs. Laimbeer to the Nassau
Hotel. The bodies OF Mr.. Pell and
Gambean were left beside the track
until help could come from Long Beach.
Mr.. Turner Immediately got three
physicians one OF them. DIR. Lee of the
Nassau, another DR.. William A. Rogers
OF Long Beach.
They went back to the scene Of the
wreck, but there was nothing to do but
return to the hotel. Coroner Neu gave
:, permission for the transfer of Mr.. Peirs
body to an undertaking establishment
!, in Rockville Centre. The Coroner. who
Is also a Justice Of the Peace. also
4 started an investigation.
The train was In charge Of Conductor
: j. II. BELLS. who made a brief report to
the train dispatcher at Jamaica, hut
: could give no details Of the accident.
5 The dispatcher said he believed the
train was going at a pretty fast rate
. when the automobile was struck, but
Engiueer Esston pulled up imms1iota1y