New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-13
AUTOS AND WATER
TAKE VICTIMS,
PLEASURE BENT
Sixteen Injured in Days
Many Crashes-Two
Expected to Die.
BOY SCOUT DROWNED;
MOTHER HURTS BABE
Lad Sinks While Friends Dare
Tide to Save liim-Child'S
Skull Fractured in Fall.

Serious automobile accidents and
many drownings marrcd the pleasure
seeking festivities OF yesterdays week
end. Three dead, two dying, and six
teen injured was the toll meted out by
n otor vehicles. Nine persons were
drowned, one boy scout. At least
two automobile accidents were the re-
suit Of reckless driving, and one man
met Lis death by drowning when ne
stood up and changed his seat in the
rowboat.
While the machine Of John Bantz, Of
II Clinton Street. Hobokcn, y. j., was
travelling at a high rate Of speed on
Amboy Road, Staten Island, it crashed
into seven passenger touring car
owned by Henry Cousins, Of 1925 East
Sixteenth Street, Brooklyn. Six persons
we're injured. one seriously. They were
all in the Cousins car and are Mrs.
Mertie Malone, twenty-eight, of 33l
Huntington Avenue. Boston, who re-
ceived a fractured skull was removed
to Smith Infrmary Hospital and will
/ die: Mrs. Henry Cousins. fractured
right leg and severe contuSlons; Henry
/ Cousins, decorations; George J. Barton,
forty-fvc. Of 1O7 Fiatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn, broken arm and bruises; Mrs.
/ G. j. Barten, forty-fve. lacerations;
! Duel Barten, eleven, cuts and bruises.
/ All we're taken to Smith Infrmary. The
| Cousins car was a wreck. The other
machine, driven by William lhnken, Of
200 Eleventh Street, Hobokcn, was bad
ly damaged.
Baby's Skull Fractured.
Mr.. and Mrs Stephen Pirrello, of p
Rivington Street, were crossing First
Avenue and First Street last night
when motorcycle, operated by Ben
iamin Vogel, of o. Willett Street, ran
them down. Mrs. Pirrell0 had her one
month old baby, Rosario, in her arms.
When she saw she would be run down
she tossed the infant to the street,
fracturing its skull. Both mother and
father were slightly injured; Morris
SieCel, of 233 East Eleventh Street,
was also hurt in the crash. The baby
will die. Siegel was detained on
charge of felonious assault.
Max Sigmund, fourteen, Of 40 Lewis
Street, was killed yesterday by wagon
AT Lewis and Houston streets. He had
jumped on the front wheel to give the
driver. Joseph Duba, of 1876 East lO9th
Street, a printed circular Duba was
held on a charge of homicide.
Morris Steinberg, six, Of 80 East
Ninety-second Street, had his skull
fractured when an automobile, driven
by Louis Pullman, of l07 West l2ls'
Street ran over him at Third Avenue
and Ninety-second Street. The boy
died at Mount Sinai Hospital few
hours afterward. The chauffeur was
held.
Auto Kills Boy.
Three-year-old Samuel Ringel, of 2l6
Bay Twenty-third Street, Bath Beach,
was playing near his home yesterday
when an automobilc, operated by Sam
uel Heyman, ran lin down.
Tom Brown, a patient in st. Joseph
Hospital, Far Rockaway, whose home
is said to be in Manhattan; Miss Hannah
Anderson and Miss Katherine Shannon,
of Woodmere, Long Island, were in
iured, when an automobile, operated
by Christian W. Pintney, ran into a
tree, on Merrick Road Pintney, chauf-
four for s. H. Holman, head Of the
Holman Silk Manufacturing Company,
of 245 Fifth Avenue. Manhattan. was
uninjured He was arrested for rockies
driving.
Alfred Levy, of 1853 Fortieth Street,
Brooklyn. ran his automobile into d
motorcycle owned by Barton +. Griffin,
twenty-five, of 405 Union Street, Brook
lyn. Miss Jane Weeks. twenty-three.
Of Gas Forty-ffth Street, was on the
rumble. Both were thrown TO the
ground. receiving cuts and bruises.
Clarence ?. Langler, forty-one, Of 68I
East Third Street. Brooklyn. motor
cycle policeman of the Parkville sta
ton, hit a stone in the road at Fiftieth
Street and Sixteenth Avenu> yesterday
He swas pitched off his machine and re-
ceivcd minor injuries.
Albert Bivona. nineteen, of 70 Park
Avenue, Rutherford, \. j.. will not be
present al the first exercises of Ruth
erford High School. where he is a stu
dent. to-day He is held at the Coney
Island police station on charges OF
felonious assault and violation of traf
flee regulations, after running down
Policeman John Sullivan yesterday on
Surf Avenue.
Two Women Injured.
Patrick Dowdell, of Fourth Street,
Coytesville, y. j., was held in $500
bail on a charge of reckless driving.
Dowdell was arrested Saturday night
after three persons had been knocked
down by his automobile.
Angelo Bonita, of 14l Pavonia Ave
nue., Jersey City, was discharged with
reprimand yesterday by Magistrate
Ten Eyck in Morrisania Court after he
had been arrested Friday night on a
charge of knocking down Ernest Ter
mick, 1lOl Prospect Avenue, the Bronx,
while driving horse and wagon.
Hermick's skull was fractured. Evil
dence was insufficient to hold Bonita,
the court said.
Miss Henrietta A. Ugente and Miss
Camelia Ugente, nineteen and forty-one
wears old, respectively. Of 2l50 Crotona
Parkway. The Bronx. were knocked
down last night at Fordham Road and
Southern Boulevard by an automob.l'
driven by Samuel Galeshuker. one g
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