New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-29
Horse Struck by Tandem
Motorcycle at Coney
Island.
AUTO TRUCK CRUSHES
GIRL AGAINST CAR
Boy Hurled Through Plate Glass
Girl Afire Leaps Out
of Window.

estimated at from sixty to eighty miles
an hour. a tandem motorcycle struck
! n horse hitched to light wagon,
! knacked il to its feet, skidded and
smashed into an electric light post,
/ hurting its two occupants 70 the pave
ment.
When bystanders rushed TO the
mutilated bodies, they found that des,n
/ had been instantaneous. The 'pones
say the dead men are Wilhelm Lrtgens
of II Third av., Manhattan, and man
known to them only as Ernest.
Charles Mcclure was driving the
horse which was first struck BY the
motorcycle, and with him on the FROM
seat was Frank Garrigan. They were
crossing the Parkway TO Neck koad
when they heard the purr OF he cycles
engine. They caught a glimpse OF
gray streak, and then the motorcycle
crashed into their horse and shdded-
Both men were thrown from .ns
wagon seat, but neither was injured
Crushed by Auto Truck.
Harriet Rosenthal, seventeen, sales<
girl. of sos West 12sth St, was IN
stantly killed when she was struck py
m automobile truck at 1l6tn 81. ana
Fifth ay Yesterday afternoon IN the
presence Of hundreds OF persons. Inc
girl was crossing the street with
friends and attempted to pass anead OK
a 'crosstown streetcar when she was
struck by the machine and crusned,
against the car. Her companions es-
capped injury.
The truck is owned by the j. NJ Hor-
ton Ice Cream Company, or liV Eass
125th st. II was operated by Christian
Christianson, of 30l Avenue c. Patrick
ODay, of 1859 Park av., was motorman
of the street car. Miss Rosenthals
friends who accompanied her were
Sadie Schall. of 1914 Madison av., and
BENJAMIN Kahn, of 81 Barrow 81
Patrolman Connolly, of the East lo4th
st. station. summoned an ambulance.
DR.. Roach, of the Harlem Hospital, took
the body to that institution.
Several children were playing yes
terday in the hallway on the fourth
floor of the tenement at ITO second
av., wher seven-year-o James Feona,
who lives on that floor, mounted
astride the banister, telling the others
he was going horseback riding. The
next moment he lost balance and fell
through the we'll to the first floor.
Attracted by the screams of the
children, Patrolman Regain called an
ambulance from Reception Hospital.
Both of the boys arms we're broken
and he had suffered internal injuries
which the doctors say will cause ms
death.
Frank Arnold, six years old. of 795
East 160th ST., was slightly hurt yes,
terday afternoon when he was Joited
off the rear of an automobile in front
of 500 East l60th st. The little fell
low was riding on the rear Of car
owned by Max May, of 200 Eighth nv..
and driven by Michael May, the police
saw. To remove the child from the
dangerous position the chauffeur
STONED the machine. The boy was
thrown TO the gr1Ind, receiving LAGER
atoms of the left leg.
Ambulance Hurts One.
William Mikos, twenty-six years old,
Of psf Academy ST., Newark, fell of the
runboard of an open car on Bank St,
near Wilsey ST., yesterday while on his
way home He received a bad scalp
wound and sundry bruises. The city
hospital ambulance was called, and
when it hove in sight the car from
which Mikos had fallen pulled away,
leaving him in charge of police and
friends.
When the ambulance was rushing
back 10 the hospital with the injured
, man il overlook the car as II was
rounding q curve at wallace race ana
struck Maurice WEIGH, Jr., Of 30 Sd ST..
, knocking him from the runboard 20
the pavement. Earl Springer, the
chauffeur. did rot know what had hap
pened and went on. Welch was injured
about the legs and shoulders.
Long Beach June 2S.-Two automo-
bile parties narrowly escaped injury
early this morning when their ma
chimes went down an eght-foot en-
bankment alongside the narrow road
leading from Rockville Centre TO this
place The night was extremely dark
and the mist made it almost impossible
for auto lights 10 show the way.
As Mitchell Hall. Wall ST. broker,
was returning toward Manhattan with
young woman, said to be Miss Eleanor
Stewart, daughter of Manhattan
banker. his machine ran. down an em-
barkment and almost into a small
creek. The passengers escaped with
slight bruises.
half hour later, at point mile
away, in a car owned by Mrs. II. Il.
Darlington. Of the ST. Hubert Hotel,
West 57th ST., Manhattan. r. w. Van
Puskirk was driving with a woman
companion. They ran into ditch and
went down the embankment, bat
neither was injured.