New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
Husband Drives Cycle Into
Crowded Surface Car
in Sixth Avenue.
CHAUFFEUR FOUND
DEAD UNDER AUTO
Stamford Victim Hit by Two
MaChineS-HoSpitalS Care
for Four.

York and vicinity yesterday, a balmy
sprinc Sunday which lured thousands
TO the highways. Three others axe in
hospitals.
While returning from Coney Island
on a motorcycle, Martin Gadlnoska and
his wife. Margaret Of 461 West Forty
sixth Street, crashed into a south
bound Sixth Avenue surface car at
For,y-eichth Street Mrs. Gadlnosks
was killed and the husband was taken
20 the New York Hospital with 9
fractured skull and internal injuries.
Alexander Applebee, Of Bronxville
was found early yesterday morning
crushed TO death under Detective Will
lam J. Burns's automobile in Palmer
Avenue, Yonkers. lie was the chauf-
feur.
Lawrence Ford died in Roosevelt
Hospital from internal injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by an auto
mobile at Twelfth Avenue and Fifty.
second Street. The machine was owned
and operated by J. w. McGrath, Of IL
West Seveuty-second Street.
Rovino Roberts died in the Stamford
Hospital after being struck by car
and thrown in front Of machine
driven by a demonstrator for New
York motor sales company.
Mrs Maurice Randall. Of 116 River
side Drive was badly injured yester'
dsv afternoon when two autos were III
D,1ho.,, Road Great
Avenue. New Rochelle. She is in the
New Rochelle Hospital with a frac-
ture6 hip and internal injuries.
With her was young man who said
he was William II. Mendle, IT., Of II
summit Avenue, Mount Vernon. lie
IS about twenty years younger than
his companion.
Tho other car was driven by William
NcLelland, of l Allart Avenue, New
Rochelle. He is employed as chauffeur
hy b. +. Watt, Of II Prospect Place
who went on his bond.
Two Hurt as Car Turns Over.
Patrick A. Curtin, Of 46 Warburton
Avenue. Yorkers, and Miss Josephine
Wilson. Of 1852 West 12Sth street, are
;r the Washington Heights Hospital
.uTerinc from injuries received Wheh
,- automobile owned by Peter Haven
~ Workers. overturned al 2-Sih StIee'
and Broadway yesterday afternoon.
Eovlinc through Forty-elgntn Street
a. 4.20 u. N. on their new drab-co!oreC
~o.orcvcle built for two, Martin anC
,,.rgaret GadlnOska were taking OF
-feir delightful days outing al Cohey
Island Interested in recOunung the
pleasures Of their trip, they neglected
g. watch out for traffic on sixth ave
The motorcycle. with brakes creak-
ING. crashed into a crowded surface car
Ms. Gadlnoska died five minutes later
III q drug store.
Women on the open car, which was
crowded TO the running board, screamed
and tainted as they saw Mrs. GadIhcsha
hurled over her husbands mead Hht
+el md P the fender and was dragged
along Tor twenty feet.
In the historical commoton when
f,l..y..e. no one noticed Gadlnoska ~
inr unconscious in the street, one OF
his legs tangled in the front whec! OF
the motorcycle.
As news of the woman's predicament
sDread through the car, men on inc
running board had 10 use all their
strength TO prevent panic. Mean
while the excitement had spread 10
fashionable houses along both sides OF
Fortv-ejghth Street, between Fifth and
Sixth avenues.
Richly Dressed Men Help.
Three men in silk hats, frOck coats
and patent leather shoes soiled their
Sunday gray gloves as they helped re-
lease Mrs. Gadlnoska. An elderly
woman knclt in the street to bind with
d white apron her wounded head. In
their eagerness 20 help, men and women
fought frantically to get near enough
10 help raise the car, under the dlrec-
tion Of Or. John Wurthmann, Of 32l
East Ffueth Street, who was one OF
the Messengers. Three women had
tainted and men showed blanched faces
before Mrs. GadlnOska was released
from under the forward truck and car
Ted 20 d drug store.
Traffic had become so generally DIS
organized that the ambulance had an
fcu.ty in reaching Forty-elghth Street.
As Dr.. Murray rushed into the drug
store DR.. Wur,hmann rose 10 announce
that Mrs. Gadlnoska was beyond help:
compound fracture Of the skull mad
caused her death.
When the physicians dlsentangled
Gsdlnoska from his machine they found
that he. too. had fracture OF the
skull and internal injuries. lie was
married three months ago, and as MRS.
Gadlnoska's health was not good, he de-
e.ded 10 buy a motorcycle, so that she
could get outdoors in the fresh ar.
Witnesses say that Gadlnoska was
travelling al medium speed when he
saw the surface car in charge Of James
Smith, motorman, and John Curry, con-
ductor. Smith changed his bell and
threw on mis- brakes, but the collision
was unavoidable. After the accident
1t was found that a small watch at
tached TO the handle bar Of the motor
cycle was still running.
Mystery in Yonkers Killing.
Mystery surrounds the accident TO
Applebee who lived in BronXville. lie
started shortly before midnight Tor
Manhattan 70 get the detectives son,
Richard J. Burns. When the car did
not come young Burns tired Of waiting
and went home by train. He notified
the Bronxville police that his car ana
Chauffeur were missing.
Applebco was found under the car,
which was upside down at the foot o.
thlrty-foot embankment. IL had LETT
The road under an eiectrlc light, while
evidently going at full speed and
ploughed through a strong fence. The
victims back was broken and his head
crushed.
Curtin was driving the Haven car
When II overturned. His hips and
spine were injured. Miss Wilson. a
passenger. has scalp wounds and con-
VISIONS Of the left side. Edward War
\ ing, Of 22O West Eighteenth Street, the