New-York tribune., 1915-09-07
2DEAD, DYING;
{ HURT BY AUTOS
Jersey Editor Killed
Driver Held - Boy
Victim of Crash.
MOTHER AND BABY
HURLED FROM CAR
Gasolene Explosion Burns Man
Filling Tank-PatrOlman
Run Down.

Two dead, two dying and many hurt
was the Labor Day holiday toll Of
automobiles in and around New York
City yesterday The bicycle was the
feature Of at least three Of the acci-
dents.
James Petrie, editor Of "The East
Rutherford Enterprise" a paper which
he founded twenty-five years ago, was
killed by an automobile yesterday
morning. He died at the Passaic Cen
eral Hospital He was sixty years old
and had lived in East Rutherford
forty years. Louis Pounds, of Pater-
son, who is nineteen, and the son Of
Reginald Pounds, drove the car and
was held on a charge of manslaughter
last night County Judge William
Seufert held him in $4,000 bail, which
was supplied.
Thomas Muldoon, nine, son Of Police
Sergeant Anthony Muldoon, attached
to the Vernon Avenue precinct, Brook
lyn, died five minuts after having been
knocked off his bicycle by an automo-
bile in Hollis, Queens, yesterday after
noon. John c. Anderson, a civil en-
gineer, with offices at "A Broad Street,
Manhattan, was driving the machine
that hit the boy, and he was taken TO
the Jamaica police station charged
with homicide. Later he was released.
Frank Oakes, fifteen-year-old
school boy, of 1875 Linden Place,
Graniteville, Staten Island, while riding
a bicycle, collided with an automobile
driven by Joseph Spence. of Elm Park,
Staten Island. Cakes was taken to the
Smith Infrmary Hospital, New Brigh-
ton. where it was said he will die.
In a triple automobile collision, near
Rosedale, l.. l., yesterday, Mrs. Ida
Rooney, of Centreville, Avenue, Aque-
duct. L. l., sixty-fve, and young
guest, Miss Anna Boerum, of Trinity
Avenue, Aqueduct, were severely cut oy
plass. he automobile was driven by
Cha lies J. Rooney. The car struck the
machine of Richard j. Welch, OF ~
Queen Street, Long Island City, sending
il into a third car owned by Peter
Cleary, of 922 St. Marks Avenue,
Brooklyn. o,-
Peter Berlario, twenty-five, OF 30I
Fourth Street, Hoboken, was racing on
his motorcycle with several other
friends. when his machine got away
from him and crashed into Hudson
trolley. on the Palisades yesterday
afternoon. He was taken 10 the North
Hudson Hospital where it is said ne
has no chance of recovery.
Michael McGreen, of BIT East
Twenty-eighth Street, was burned last
night when the gasolene tank OF
machine in the front of garage at
Eleventh Avenue and Twenty-third
Street exploded as he was pouring the
LIQUID into it. He was taken to
Bellevue Hospital.
Clutching her thr1e-year-old son,
Mrs. E. Keppler, of 2 Elinor. Place,
Yonkers, was catapulted twenty feet out
of touring car which crashed into
pole, last evening, and landed uncon-
scious. Mrs. Keppleris head was split
open, and her son suffered several
decorations. The automobile was re-
duced to a pile OF junk.
While mounting his motorcycle at
Ocean Parkway and Avenue j, Brook
lyn, last night, George Zelss, a patrol
man. Of 1850 Flatbush Avenue. was run
down by another motorcyclist, Albert
Deckert, of 482 Tompkins Avenue, and
slightly injured.
Peter Bond, an electrician, of l6l
East Eighty-fourth Street, Manhattan.
while riding a bicycle on Burger Ave
nue., West New Brighton, last evening
was accidently run into by an automo-
bile operated by A. P. Wathason, Of
the Union Square Hotel, In Manhattan.
He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital,
where the doctors found that his right
leg was fractured at the knee.