New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-25
THREE DYING AFTER
DAY OF ACCIDENTS
Many Persons Injured by
Series of Crashes in and
About City.
AUTOS AND BICYCLES
TAKE HEAVY TOLL
Women and Children Among the
Victims-Fifteen Hurt in
Car Collision.

LAR NOIIlSlOH.
II was day Of accidents IN and around
New York yesterday. Three persons were
fatally injured and are dying In tho hos
pitfalls to which they were taken, while
numbers of others were more or less seri-
ously hurt in the numerous mishaps when
occurred. Trolley cars smashed into
autos automobiles wrecked carriages and
there were serious motorcycle, bicycle and
motorboat accidents.
Jacob Elias. fourteen years old, OF Al
Christopher av, was taken to st. Mary
Hospital suffering from a fractured skull
and Internal injuries after being flung
from a motorcycle at Suffer and Stone
avs, Brooklyn. when he crashed into
wagon In trying to avoid running down
children in his path. He probably VIII
die.
Michael Misteo, seventeen years old, OF
1917 Eastern Parkway, who collided win
n horse and carriage owned and driven
by Arthur Rage. OF 16 Doscher ST. AT
Eastern Parkway and Bergen st, while
riding a bicycle. was taken to 81 Mary
Hospital. fatally hurt.
Knocked down by a bicyclist at East
ern Parkway and Park Place. Leo Botoi-
Sky. TWO years old, OF 40S Saratoga av.,
and Pauline Waselofsky, twelve years DID,
Of 444 Rockaway av, received bruises.
Vito Vitelio. twenty-three years Old OF
PASS Fulton ST, riding a bicycle was
struck by streetcar at Fulton ana
Crescent SITS. He sustained internal In
jurles and a scalp wound.
John Reid. thirty-fiye years old, OF
Corona. Long Island, was probably fatal
" injured yesterday afternoon when
trolley car hit and wrecked the automo-
bile in which he was driving at Jackson
ave. and the Shell Road. Corona. Reid
and his companion, John Burling, also of
Corona, were hurled from their auto.
Reid landed on his head. His skull was
fractured and he was badly cut ana
bruised. lie was taken to st. johns HOS
pital. Long Island city. Burling sus-
tained broken arm, decorations about
the head and body and several severe
bruises.
An automobile party, consisting OF two
men and two Winter Garden chorus girls
modishly gowned. came to GRIEF near
John ID. Rockefeller's estate at larry
town. and were lucky to escape serious
injury. Their car was shooting along AT
high speed, when the driver lost control
1t brought up with great force on an en-
bankment at the side OF the road after
narrowly missing a telegraph pole. and
was badly damaged.
James O'Nell, builder, who lives at
Great Neck, Long Island. was found un-
conscious and pinned under his over
turned car late yesterday afternoon by
other automobilists. at Broadway and
10Th St, Flushing.
As DIR. John Winters Brannan was driv-
ing to Bellevue Hospital, yesterday after
noon, his phaeton was hit by an auto AT
Goth ST. and First av. James Munsey, the
driver, was thrown out and his side
bruised and right ankle sprained. DR..
Brannan cut his left hand as he leaped
from the vehicle.
Mrs. Caroline Fink. OF 33s East SD St,
and her little son narrowly escaped death
Yesterday when an automobile owned by
Samuel Kaplon, OF 6s Lenox av., smashed
into the carriage in which she was driv-
ing in Winfield, Queens Borough.
Mrs. Fink and her child were hurled
from the carriage. and it was completely
wrecked.
Fifteen persons were slightly injured
when one Gates av. car rammed another
late yesterday in the Sands st. terminal
of the Brooklyn Bridge. Both cars were
badly damaged. Mrs. Julia Tomlinson, OF
423 West 10th St, and Mrs. Mary HUGH
ard of 2Ss Christy St, and William
/ Rogers. of eos Hancock St, Brooklyn,
were badly bruised.
/ A broken axle on a DeKalb av car,
which came to a stop near the Brooklyn
/ Tower, held up traffic on the bridge last
evening for nearly half an hour.
While floating his motor boat. Sunny
| side clear Of a mud fiat in Pugsley's
Kuhle. of 70 East 18th St. had his leg
caught and badly cut in the propeller OF
/ the boat DR.. Dolan, Of Fordham Hospi-
tai. sewed up the wound
Martin Butler, of $40 East l36th st,
fractured his leg yesterday while attempt
ing to get off a Clason Point Road car at
OBrien av.
While playing with matches in her home
yesterday afternoon three-year-old Helen
Egan. Of 49, South 18th ST.. Newark, set
fire to her clothing. and before help
reached her she was seriously burned.