New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-04

came along. There was 10 llIlc W
turn back, and although the chauffeur
put on extra speed he did not succeed
In getting over the rails before the
swiftly moving train struck the auto
mobile.
The auto was turned over three or
four times as il was being showed
along ahead OF the train. and 1t Is
supposed that it was in this way tha'
the chauffeur's body got caught under
the trucks and held there.
Wife Long Unconscious.
Mrs. PeH was close behind her hus-
bands machine when the train struck
ii. She heard the crash and saw the
auto go over. She screamed and then
tainted. In the excitement which fol-
lowed no one paid much attention TO
Mrs. Pell. Later when she was still
unconscious. she was hurried to the
hotel and revived.
S OSgood Pell the rich New York real
estate dealer. came from one Of Manhat-
tanS oldest families. He was d DARING
hunter. automobiles and flyer of various
types Of aerial craft. He was socially
prominent and i member Of many New
York and suburban clubs.
His real estate firm. S Osgood Pell q
Co. maintained its main offices at NO.
542 Fifth avenue, with branch offices IN
the city and on Long Island.
William x. Vanderbilt, jr., aided in
caring for the dead and injured. He
also identified the body of Pell and
that OF the chauffeur. Later on he
took Mrs Pell I'm his machine to the
Hotel Nassau and saw that she was
given medical treatment.
Mr.. Laimbeer at o'clock was taken
10 the Mercy Hospital. at Hampstead.
II was said there that he cannot re-
cover. Mrs. Laimbeer was in an hys-
terical state and under the care of
physicians at the hotel She is COM
pletely dazed.
After the accident word was sent 70
the beach, and friends Of the victims,
in their automobiles, rushed to the
scene. The unconscious forms of both
Mr.. and Mrs. Laimbeer were placed in
another automobile and taken to the
hotel, where Drs. Johnson and Rogers
set 10 work TO try 10 save them from
death.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Laimbeer left
their home at Hampstead earlier in the
day they placed their three children in
tire care Of servants. When these en-
ployes learned Of the tragedy tonight
they could not get up courage enough
10 tell the children that their father
vas dying and their mother badly in
jured. The children went to bed some
time before the accident occurred, and
when word was received at the house
hone of the servants would wake them
up to tell them.
The wreck caused a tie-up in traffic
over the railroad, and for over two
hours not a train moved on the Long
Beach branch of the road.
Justice Neu. of Lynbrook, who is act
ing coroner. was notified of the acct
dent shortly after il occurred, and he
hurried here in his automobile He SUI
?ervised the work of getting the body
II the ehauffeur from under the trucks
Of the car, and he then ordered the
body of the chauffeur and that of MIR.
oell removed TO Rohald's morgue.
Mrs. Lainb.er Partly REEVES.
Hoping to get an ante morton state
ment from either Mr.. or Mrs. Laimbeer,
Coroner Neu came TO the hotel, but Mrs.
Laimbeer who had been revived, was
unable TO talk, and the doctors were
stin working over her husband. Mrs. Pell,
who also had been revived. was unable
TO give any coherent account Of what pre-
coded the tragedy.
Hundreds Of persons who had come TO
the beach from Manhattan and Brooklyn
and who intended TO leave around II
o'clock were held up for two hours or so.
md many Of them did not get away until
after ! o'clock.
A long line Of automobiles was held up
during the tie-up Of traffic but when the
Coroner arrived he had the trains so
shifted that automobiles could pass over
the tracks and continue on toward Rock
vile Centre. and thence to the city.
:. Osgood Pell was a brother Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt Pell and stephen II. Pell
and cousin of Archie Pell.
Mr.. Pell was thirty years old. His
income from his business and inherited
fortune was very large. He was the son
OF John Rowland Pell
Mr.. Pell married Miss Isabel Audrey
Townsend daughter of Frederick S.
Townsend OF lslip, Long Island on Octo-
Der is. 1899. She was then eighteen
years old. one child was born to them,
Isabel Townsend Pell TWO years later
they separated.
In the fall OF 1901 Mrs Pell obtained
a divorce and got the custody Of the
child. Not long afterward Mr. Pell mar
Tied Miss Elizabeth Warden, daughter OF
an oil millionaire OF Pittsburgh
Less than month ago Mr.. Pell made
a daring trip to his Wheatley Hills home
from the Westchester Country Club in
an aircraft. In July of last year Mr..
Pen and a party of hunting friends sailed
into the Artic regions I'm quest OF tabled
gold. They returned In September Of that
year having captured. not gold, but many
specimens OF Arctic animal life.