New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-20
HEn AND CHILD
KILLED. IN AUTO
Teachers Family Fatally
Struck by Train Near
New Britain.
ACCIDENT OCCURS ON
NEW HAVEN TURNPIKE
Motor CataStropheS Many in Diff.
ferent Suburban Sections
Garage Man in One.

Garage Man in One.
Msriden. Conn, Sent, To- Mrs, ".
Gordon Brown and hcr fivc.year Old
daughter we're instantly killed and her
husband and vourgcr child badly IN
iured Yesterday afternoon when the
car SIR. Brown was driving crashed
mo 3 Middletovn electric train Nesr
Berlin.
MIR. Brown, vho an Instructor n
the Hopkins Grammar School, in New
Hsver. tried 20 change his course
after il was 100 la.c, and the automc-
bile was dragged along the tracks 800
feet emf literally ground % pieces.
DR., X. a. zeigler. Of &. Frsacis's Hos
pital. Hartford. was near at hand with
his machine Seeing thai ne could do
nothing for Mrs. Brown. he speeded
with Brown and the younger child 90
the New Britain General Hospital, four
miles awsy.
The Brown family had been III Hart
ford and were returning home when
the accident occurred at the American
Brick Company's crossing on the New
Haven Turnpike. The crossing is not
bad one. snd it is probable that M.
Brown misjudged his speed or that Of
the train.
The injured mar is a graduate of
NcCill University, Montreal. His wife
before her marriage was Miss Eta
Louise Brown. teacher, Of New Ha-
ven. Their home it. at $50 Alden st.,
New Haven. and both are we'll known
in Connecticut educational circles.
Mount Vernon. Sept l9--Mrs. Anna
J.. Webb. wits Of Benjamin L. Webb, of
Co.. 'no. IS in the White Plains Hos
pitai suffering from a fractured skull
and compound fracture Of the leg.
and her daughter, Miss Marion Webb,
Is badly iacerated as the result of
rc.T end auto accident between the
" ebb ca and 4 machine owned lN
William Hirsch, general manager Of the
LeEo. Garage Company, of ia East
55tB ST., New York City.
I he accident occurred late last night.
7ors Webb, who j. daughter of the
Rev Ur j. J.. Robertson, Of Bronx
VA, was still unconscious this after
l0eE. and the chances Of her recovery
arc slight.
Nj. webb. his vile daughter, and
crippled son were touring from Cort-
land 10 visit WIFI ~. Robertson and
his family ~ BY)H,vil.e. They had
reached place IT, Central av.. near
Platt av.. almos, IL BronHvillC, when
the Hirsch machine. heavy touring
car, j. which were Nj. and Mrs. Joseph
Burns. O. New York, and Mr.. Hirsch,
with Mr.. Burns driving, ran into the
SIGHT Webb car.
Nh Webb had slowed down to make
the turn into Plat av.. and the other
cer struck Il from behind. The Webb
machine wss thrown into a ditch and
turned over All Of the party was
thrown out, and Mrs. Webb rendered
unconscious.
In an attempt TO avoid striking
boy, Mrs Margaret Bowers. Of 2096
DAILY ay.. The Bronx. drove her auto
mobile through a picket fence yester-
day afternoon. The boy, Leo Schwartz,
was struck in spite Of Mrs. Bowers's
efforts and was taker to Fordham
Hospital. suffering from internal in
1uries. The police say that Mrs. Bow
eis violated the traffic regulations, and
she was served with . summons TO ap-
pear in court.
A motorcycle. with two men, and an
auto, driven for the first time by its
owner. with two young women as pas
sengers, crashed at Broadway and G2d
st. about $3.50 o'clock last evening. The
motorcyclists were thrown under the
auto, and when willing hands had lifted
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were rushed TO Roosevelt Hospital,
physlcians said each woul6 probably
lose his right leg.
The injured men are Frederick J.
Knapp, subway guard, OF 523 East
14Sth ST., The Bronx, and George KE2-
naiek, an engineer, of n East 10th ct.
They were crossing Broadway, going
west, when the automobile came down
town. At the wheel was Jacques Berst,
of 203 West S1st st. With him we're
the Misses Esther and Cecilia Strauss,
Of 3l7 West 93d st.
All saw that q collision was incvi-
table, and while the men tried to make
the crash as free from damage as pos
sible, the young women's screams at
tracted crowu.
A big motor truck owned by Hage-
dorm Brothers, coal dealers, skidded a.
1Jbth ST. anQ NOft maven Odnal lASt
night, causing painful injuries 20 Fred
erick Lindenkohl. the driver. and HE
companion, Eugene Grant The mer
were hurled from the truck and badly
liberated They were '&Eo 90 L!Hco;r
hospital,
John +. Poole. o. A,... Putnam
County. was hurled from h;s motorcycle
into the lap Of Mrs Alfred Goetschiu0,
whose arm was broker il! - collision
with an automobile in Kert. He suf-
fered fractured skull. Frank NOor-
his Of Somcrs, suffered a broken collar
bone and Frank PieraD broken leg
when a bull, which upset THEW motor.
cycle in Brewster, charged end goTeG
them after wrecking the vehicle.
Two automobile accidents in Newark
yesterday resulted in serious injury 20
boy and a narrow escape for a trolley
conductor The boy is Frank Smith, of
IS Jacob St. who was run down by
William +. Kimperlcy. who was driving
mis- car along Bergen st. 70 meet
Thomas l., Raymond. Republican can
late for Mayor Kimperley was ar
tsted.
The conductor hurt was Albert
Splnn, Of East Orange. who was swept
from the running board Of an open troll
lev car By an auto truck OF Butler
r-nkkoro .rholagalp procprc in front