New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

sponsible for many accidents in this
city The most serious of these was
1 when a signboard in front Of the build
ing occupied by the Oliver Typewriting
| Company, at $40 Broadway, fell three
stories to the sidewalk injuring three
| persons, one of whom will probably die.
Another man, hurt when he slipped
from a plank, is in a serious condition
at the Volunteer Hospital, and q
number of other persons were injured
by falls on the slippery streets, many
OF whom had to be treated at hospitals.
When the storm was at its height
| In the afternoon the high wind blew
down the Oliver company's sign, which
was stretched across its building. 1t
dropped without warning at the feet OF
dozen pedestrians, and struck three
of them.
Two policemen reached the building
soon after the accident and carried
two men and woman into the COM
pany's Offices, where they were made
, comfortable while an ambulance was
summoned from the Hudson Street
Hospital.
But the heavy snow delayed the am
bulance, and before it arrived fire
automobile was pressed into service
and the two injured men taken to the
hospital Miss Ruth Taggart, OF ga!
Webster Avenue, 1he Bronx, suffered
contusions of the shoulder, but was
able TO go home.
At Gansevoort Street Patrolman Ma
guire saw a truck pulling another
through Hudson Street last night. Drag
lying behind the rear truck was the
body of a man. Mcguire stopped the
driver of the leader and called doc
tor from St. Vincent's Hospital. 1t was
found that the mans neck had been
broken. He was George Fitzgerald, or
ACT Kosciusko Street, Brooklyn.
Fitzgerald was employed by Jackson
Brothers, 16S Church Street. lie got
stuck in a snowdrift, and John Butler,
of POP North Eighth Street, Brooklyn,
another driver employed BY the hrm'
undertook TO pull him out Each driver
stayed with his own wagon. 1t is sup,
posed that Fitzgerald left his seat and
fell under the truck.
DR.. Sinton found that S. Auerbach'
employed at 42S Broadway, received q
fractured skull when the sign hit him.
Little hope was held for his recovery:
| Harry Brimberg, cotton broker, OF
| 1859 Flfty-frst Street, Borough Park,
whom the signboard also hit, suffered
contusions OF the head.
Horse Tramples Policeman.
John Guglielmetto, a lsborer. of II
/ Roosevelt Street, is in q serious con-
| dition at the Volunteer Hospital, where
/ he was taken after an accident at
broadway and Dey Street. He was
walking across d snow-covered plank
on top of a shed, when he slipped and
| fell forty feet TO the ground. He sus-
! tanned a conclusion of the brain. He
was at work on the addition TO the
| Western Union Building.
While he was aiding 10 get team
| OF horses from a sewer st Washington
and Barclay Streets yesterday after.
noon Patrolman Charles Wagner, OF
the Greenwich Street station, slipped
and fell into the opening. One OF the
horses trampled upon his body. Sew
eral passersby lifted the animal up,
and Wagner was able to climb out OF
the hole after a time. He was assisted
to his home.
Unable to see for the snow, James
McKenna, of Rutherford, N. j., drove
an automobile truck into the rear OF a
wagon 81 Webster Avenue and l69th
| Street, The Bronx. Andrew Gagandi,
! Of 2S9 East 149th Street, who was rid
( ing on the wagon, was thrown TO the
street. receiving broken leg. He was
/ treated at Lebanon Hospital.
Florence Rothberg, OF 727 East l56th
Street. fractured a rib when she fell
on the sidewalk in front OF 2l East
Twenty-third Street, and was taken to
Bellevue Hospital.
DR.. Cyrus Fields, of the Bellevue
staff, while walking IN Twsnty-eighh