New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-11
3 DEAD, 10 HURT,
Y'SMOTORTOLL
Mother and Child Injured
When Train Hits Auto
Carrying Family.
WOMAN KILLED AS
CAR TURNS OVER
Husband 90 Victim and Two
Others In Hospital-Four In
Machine Hit by Speeder.

Petor +. Nolan, real estate dealer,
Of 1854 Fulton Street, Woodhaven,
Long Island, took Mrs. Nolan and their
three children-Iazel, ten; Harvey
seven, and Ethel, four-for a short
automobile spin before supper last
night. Twenty minutes after they
left home the machine was wrecked
I'm collision with a Rockaway Beach
electric train ut the Liberty Street and
Ocean Avenue crossing in Ozone Park.
Ethel, the youngest child, is at st.
Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, with tract
ured skull and conclusion OF the brain.
She will die. Mrs. Nolan is in the
hospital with dslocated right hip,
sprained back and cuts and bruises.
The other children were not injured.
Mr.. Nolan escaped with a cut on his
nose, inflicted. he says, by one of the
gates descending as he drove on the
crossing. According to statement
issued by the Long Island Railroad, the
gates were down and there was light
on the train. The accident happened
III Ds-v y. ILL.,
"As we approached the crossing no
ticed that the gates were up and that
the track was clear" said Mr.. Nolan at
the hospital. 81 was driving across
when the first gate was lowered sud
denly. II struck me on the nose with
such force that the gate was broken.
Stalled by Second Gate.
after recovered from the stunning
shock o. the blow l saw a Rockaway
Beach train bearing down on us two
hundred feet away. The other gate was
being lowered and | realized that my
only hope Of escape was TO dash across.
My machines rear wheels, however,
slipped on the moist rails, and by the
time | got under way | ran right into
the other gate and stalled my engine.
81 told Harvey, who was sitting in
front with me, to jump. Then grabbed
Hazel and leaped out over the ton
neau, yelling to my wife to take Ethel
and jump. She was standing up with
Ethel in her arms getting ready to
jump when the train hit the machine
and hurled them both through the air
clear of the wreckage."
Mrs. Frank J. Bauer, of Park Street.
Hackensack, y. j., was killed and her
husband and two other passengers
were injured early last evening, when
Mr.. Bauer's six-cylinder touring car
turned turtle on Franklin Turnpike,
near Mahwah. Mrs. Bauer died in the
Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern
an hour after the accident
Mr.. Reuer, who was driving the car.
suffered from shock and decorations of
the head and body. Frank c. Fielder,
Of Camden Street, Hackensack, sus-
tanned severe scalp wounds and
bruises and Mrs. Feidler's left shout
der was dislocated. All were taken
TO the hospital in SufFern.
Car Rolls Over Twice.
The touring car, it is said. was trav-
cling at high rate of speed, when It
seemed TO jump up in the air and roll
over twice in the highway. It is
thought the machine struck a rut.
Mrs. Bauer was about thirty years
old. the daughter Of James Tracy a
retired meat dealer OF Hackensack Her
husband is associated with the Bauer
Lithocraphing Company of New York.
Humphrey Sullivan, seventy years
old, of Patterson, Putnam County. was
struck by an automobile and killed in
Brewster while running to catch
train home. The car was driven by
Charles Maggie.
While riding motorcycle near
Elizabethtown, Y. Y, George Benson, Of
Pomona, Rockland County, struck a
rock in the road and was hurled into
ditch. lie died from fractured skull.
John Virlas, twenty-one, Of 65l
Broadway, Flushing, well known in
Queens Borough as an athlete, was rid
ing his motorcycle on Murray Street
when he collided with an automobile
driven, the police say. by Mrs. W. c.
Burhans, of 81 North Fourteenth Street.
Flushing. He was taken unconscious to
the hospital, where it was found that
he had a possible fracture of the skull
and numerous cuts and abrasions.
Four Hurt in Crash.
Four men, who say that a high-pow-
cred auto crashed into the rear of their
auto on the Merrick Road. at Oceanside,
Just after dark last evening, hurting
them 10 the roadway, are in the Nassau
Hospital at Mineola, Long Island. They
assert that the driver of the car that
struck them dashed on without slacken-
ing speed.