New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-27
Grandfather RcsCueS Lad
as Train Wrecks Speed
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MANY INJURED IN
SUNDAY ACCIDENTS
Girl Seriously Hurt When Hit
by Bicycle-Car Backs Into
Fete Crowd.

old grandson. who was alone in high
powered automobile when IT crashed
into a West End line train at Bath
Beach yesterday afternoon, lgnatz
Greenfield. seventy years old. OF u I
Bay 10Th ST.. Bath Beach, was fatally
hurt.
The boy had accompanied his father,
George Greenfield. of 3 Bay 18th ST.
70 the home OF his grandfather AZ
they were about 10 depart the LAD
climbed into the car while his father
cranked the engine. The gears OF the
machine had been left accidently IN
mesh. and as the engine started the
hurled TO ono side and the car dashed
down the street.
lgnatz Greenfield grabbed for the
child. but was unable TO reach him. He
was able. however. after a short race
to swing on the running board.
As he reached for the child tram
OF the West End line ran directly IN
front of the automobile. The car
crashed into the side Of the tram,
throwing the man of the running
board. The boy was cut and bruised.
and the automobile wrecked
DR.. Colch. Of the Coney Island Hos
pital. found Mr.. Greenfield suffering
from fractured skull. He was taken
20 the hospital II WAS said there last
night that he could not live.
Peter Kigofsky, twenty-cight years
old, Of 344 Oakland st. Brooklyn. while
riding q bicycle AT Broadway and Jack
son av.. Long Island City, yesterday
was caught between several trolley
cars and automobiles al that point. An
automobile ran the bicyclist down. lie
was thrown about twenty-five feet. lie
vas picked up unconscious and taken
to st. Johns Hospital. where u was
found that his shoulder and collarbone
we're broken ard he had also sustained
internal injuries. The police arc seek
ms the owner of the automobile that
rar into Kigofsky and then dashed
away.
Bicycle Strikes Girl.
Bessie katzin. seven years old. OF 2I'
East I22d ST.. was found unconscious
yesterday afternoon in front Of i5oi
East New York av.. East New YORK.
After being revived in the police sta
ton she told the police that she had
been struck down by triple bicycle
on which three men we're riding. She
had started 80 cross the street. she
said. when the bicycle struck her and
threw her against the curb.
DR.. Smith. of st. Mary's Hospital.
said she probably had fracture of the
skull
Four persons we're slightly injured in
a collision. last night, between an auto
mobile and street car at Washington
and Jamaica avs. Richmond Hill. Those
VINO suffered hunts were Ben lamin Der
ger. Jacob Israel and 4. Morrison, OF
Richmond Hill. and Samuel Koch OF
PAP Broadway. Brooklyn.
4 man and woman we're injured yes
terday in a crash between two trolley
cars at Broadway and AID 81. One OF
the cars ran into an open switch and
crashed head on into the other ut high
speed.
The injured were Mis-. Dora Gray,
sixty-fvc years old, Of Whltestone'
Long Island. and Frank Coglianesc'
siHty-onc. Of AIS Amsterdam a.. They
we're flung into the street. The other
nassenqors were thrown TO the floor OF
Tho cars. Most of them were women
and children going for 2 days outing.
Vito Velicrno. twenty years old. fell
from a second story window of az
9TH st.. Long Island City, yesterday.
and was fatally hurt. He got out OF
he'd and went TO sleep leaning out OF
the window. The youth received tract
ures Of the skull, right arm and two
ribs
Joseph Ruicin. OF 5i2 West 10Th ST.,
was taken 10 the Polytechnic Hospital
last night after Il collision between an
Eighth az. car and an automobile al
i6th t. RUigin vas on the running
hoard Of the auto. He has internal m
;rrics. The crash sent the auto INTO
anotL,r machine. which was turned
o.er. throwing out the driver feliN
Jolcovar, Of 81 West llth ST. He was
not hurt.
John Frank. SO years old. Of 59i
South Nineteenth street. IS IN BETH
Israel Hospital at Newark. AS the re
suit OF being struck b. an automoblle
driven by Robert Pierce. chauffeur,
Of 129 Academy street
The accident occurred AZ West and
West Kinney streets. Mayer. {. New
man. Of 10 Tracey avenue. the owner
Of the car. told the policc II had been
stolen shortly before the accident oc-
CURED Pierce was locked up TO await
the result Of Franks injuries. y.
Richard Donovan, a contractor. OF
1876 Ocean Parkway. Brooklyn. owner
Of an automobile which crashed INTO
tho side Of stone bridge on the
West Drive. in Central Park. ycster-
dav. was arraigned in the IorkvllIe
Court, before Magistrate Deuel.
.on charge OF reckless driy-
ing. William Hopkins, Of ~ Rock,
ford street Brooklyn. who was one OF
FIVE men riding in the auto, was ar
ra;uned on charge OF interfering