Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-12-16
AUTO P[UNGES INTO KEYP0RT
CREEK; TWO MEN NEAR DEATH,
BEING THROWN INTO WATER
Frank Gregor and David Owens,
Of Perth Amboy, Injured as
Castles Co. Auto Truck
HurIs Them into Icy Water.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Keyport, Dec. 16.-Frank Gregor
and David Owens, both of Perth AM
boy, are suffering from shock and
injuries as the result or being hurled
into the oyster creek when an auto
truck of the Castles Ice Cream Com
pany, of Perth Amboy, in which they
were riding, ran off the Keyport-
Amboy road at about 1880 o'clock
this morning and sank in the creek.
Gregor, who is twenty-one years old,
and lives in Goodwin street, Perth
Amboy, was picked up unconscious
in the creek about half an hour after
the accident. Owens, who is also
twenty-one years old, managed to
save himself from the Icy waters of
the creek, but he was powerless to
rescue the driver Of the machine.
Owens then ran a distance of aboutAa
mile to procure help and Gregor was
saved. =
Ralph Lange driver for the
Castles branch of Perth Amboy, was
at Middletown with truck No. 2
stalled last night. He telephoned for
aid and Gregor was dispatched with
truck No. l, loaded with tackle and
other paraphernalia last night. With
Owens as company, Gregor was driv-
ing from Perth Amboy towards this
place when the accident happened.
Several causes for the accident have
been advanced. At the Perth Am
boy headquarters of the Castles con-
Germ 1t was stated this morning that
the steering gear had broken. At the
scene of the accident 1t was declared
that Gregor had lost control of the
big machine and that it had skidded
off the road and into the creek.
1t was while the men were near
the oyster plant of James A. W..
Ellsworth, approaching this place,
that the accident occurred. The ma
chine ran off the road and struck
head foremost into the Oyster creek.
AS 1t ran over the bank of the creek
the radiator struck a large oyster
scow. The vessel was smashed and
Gregor and Owens were precipitated
into the water as the ponderous ma
chine sank the remains Of the
barge and went to the bottom of the
creek. The men were bruised and
suffered from the cold. Owens saw
ed himself and when he found that
ne COuIO uOL rescue GTSSOT, lie Tdu 10
the nearest place he could find for
aid. He hurried over distance of
about a mile to the West Keyport
hotel and there aroused the proprie-
tor, Josepuh Suffer. The latter ac-
companied the young man to the ac-
cident scene. They found Gregor un-
conscious in the creek and believed
he was dead. He was fished out and
carried to the West Keyport hotel,
where he was revived
Because no word of the accident
was received until daylight and the
Perth Amboy branch had not heard
from Gregor and Owens up to near
iy 10 o'clock this morning, 1t was be-
Iieved that both had been killed.
They were found nursing their in
juries at the West Keyport hotel.
William S. Weed, the Perth Amboy
manager for the Castles Company,
went to the scene Of the accident this
morning and decided 1t best to haul
out the machine at low tide tomor-
row. 1t had been greatly damaged.
The loss is partially covered by in
surance,