New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-14
One DEAD, 20 HURT,
IN MOTOR CRASHES
Man Killed When New
Haven Train Hits Auto
on Grade Crossing.

Automobiles and motorcycles claimed
their Sunday toll Of victims yester-
day.
In a grade crossing accident near
Stamford. Conn, seven were injured,
one OF them fatally. A train on
the New Canaan branch Of the New
Haven crashed into an automobile
driven by Thomas Bufsrd, OF Water
bury. Gem.
Joseph Garunskas, of Waterbury,
vas injured internally. and died in the
EOSplta. last night !. F. Yoksza and
Miss Elizabeth Daunc,e. of WATERBURY.
were painfully cut and bruised. Rut-
lard, Charles Dowery, W. VI. Burns
and !. +. NokSza, jr. seven years old.
were slightly hurt The whole party
was taken TO The Stamford Hospital.
They were returning 20 Waterbury
iron. Stamford with Miss Daunete, who
had been patient ~ a Stamford sana-
torium
Dr. Alexander C. Y. Garnet. who
was married or Saturday 20 Mss Mil
cred Harper Poor, had 20 procure q
new automobile az R.verhcal. Long
Island. yesterday, d. which TO continue
ms wedding trip. soon after leaving
LaStnampt0r, where the wedding took
one driven by Leslie Robinson. of Sag
Harbor. Both machines were badly
damaged and Mr.. Eob.4son's face was
cut The accident tooa place near
Riverhead.
William Mayor, Of Ia Eagle Street.
Brooklyn, took MS three ch.Idr. y. Min
ME. clgE. years old; Samuel, SIX, and
Helne, four Tor q ,driye. A. Queens
Boulevard and First Street, Long Island
City. an automobile driven by IS Own
er, Paul Basigkow. Of 23l Franklin
Avenue, Mount Vernon. struck the
carriage and upset II. Mr.. Mayor and
the children were taken 20 s.. Johns
Hospital and were later able 10 60
home All were cut and bruised, Sam
Uel's nose was broken and Minnie had
d broken ankle.
While riding a motorcycle on the Am
boy Road al Great Kills. Staten Island,
Joseph JohEsO. and SernadO Surder-
hoF were run down by an automobile
driven by Paul HrSch. Of los Twelfth
Street. Brooklyn. SunGerhoff right
leg was broken and Johnson was badly
bruised They were taken TO 81. Vim
cents Hospital H,rsch was arrested
for reckless driving. Johnson lives At
Port Richmond and Sunderhof az
Rosebank, Staten Island.
An automobile drove headlong into
a motorcycle at Brook Avenue and
l46th Street The Bronx. throwing the
cyclists, Louis Trefo, Of 635 Morris
Avenue, The Bronx, and Miss Louisa
Boltwood. Of 2l57 Fifth Avenue. The
Bronx, in the street. They were taken
to Lincoln Hospital, suffering from
cuts and bruises. The automobile was
owned and driven by Leo Schmidt Of
%S3 East l84th Street.
Meyer Heekim, II years old, of 344
Madison Street, Brooklyn, was flung
from MS bicycle and seriously injured
by ar automobile at Ocean Parkway
ard Dltmas Avenue, Coney Island. The
automobile sped on without stopping.
John J. Brennan, Of - West Thirty
fourth Street, stopped his car and took
the youth 20 Conry Island Hospital.
!, Is feared that his skull is fractured
sno that he may have internal in
Juries. He is expected 20 recover. The
police obtained q number said 70 be
that Of the automobile which ran Hee-
kim down.
-Four persons were injured last night
when the touring car Of Boris Thomas
hefsky, actor, was overturned when il
hit a dog on Avenue A, between six
teenth and Seventeenth Streets The
front wheel Of the machine struck the
animal, and II turned turtle The in
jured were Samuel Koppel, q chauf-
feur. 232 First Avenue; Max Wilmer,
56s Grand Street, and Elsie Faderbush
and Sophie Fcskel. actresses. Of 2lJ
East Fourth Street. All were treated
by Doctors Anna Tiomsland and Lam
ger, Of Bellevue.