New-York tribune., 1918-08-07
8 Lives Are Lost,
81 ersons Hurt
In Days Accidents
Seven Drowned, Girl Killed
by Fall; Many Injured
on Streetcars

Seven persons were drowned, anothe 7
was killed in fall and eighty-two were
injured, some seriously, in a series of
accidents in and near New York yes
terday.
Coney Island, with several hundred
thousand swimming off its shores, re-
corded but one drowning that Of Sal
vatore Tilliolo, of 2063 Eighty sixth
Street, Brooklyn, who lost his life at
the foot of Bay Twentyfourth Street.
Artificial respiration failed to save
the life of John Rarberi, eighteen, of
1913 Nelson Street, who was seized with
cramps and went down in the North
River last night. Friends brought him
ashore and Patrolman Singer tried to
revive him, but failed.
Drowned at Silver Beach
Unable to swim, Martini Totore.
thirty-hve, of East 115th Street and
Pleasant Avenue. and Frank Morrell,
forty, of East 118th Street and the East
River, went beyond their denth at Sill
vcr Beach yesterday and were drowned.
-horrell was brought ashore, but could
not be revived. The police recovered
Totore's body an hour later.
Stepping into a hole whit. pushing =
boat, Howard Mcqueen, twcnty-four, of
Woodhaven, LONG Island, was drowned
yesterday in the Shrewsbury River. He
had been spending the summer at
oceanport. His body was recovered.
Yesterday afternoon passengers on
the ferryboat Wyoming were startled
Wnen an unidentified man. a cripple.
!eaped from the deck into the East
River
A SQUAD of Harbor A police is search
ing for the body of Patrolman Arthur
Braun, who was drowned Yesterday at
Grassy Point, Broad Channel. With
two fellow patrolmen from The Adams
Street station he dove into the water
Braun failed to reappear.
Lillian b. Half, seventeen years old
OF 1871 Woodhaven Avenue, Wood
! maven, l.. l., fell from window of her
rome and suffered a fractured skull
She died without reganing conscious.
ness at St Mary's Hospital, jamaica
Scores were shaken up and many
were bruised yesterday when an Erie
coacn overturned in the yards mean
tne Pavonla Avenue ferry in jersey
Nlty. Two other cars were partly de-
rallied 1t was said none was killed
and none seriously injured Traffic was
delayed from half an hour to ffty
minutes.
Twelve passengers on Smith
street car were shaken up YESTERDAY
when an auto truck crashed into the
/ trolley car at Ninth Street and Third
Avenue. Brooklyn. None of the passen-
gers, most of whom were bound fo,
! Coney Island, required medical atten
ton. Albert Hcans, twenty-one. of l9e
Ninth Street, chauffeur of the truck
was removed to the Kings County
Hospital suffering from a dislocated
hip.
Car Jumps Track
Sixteen passengers we're injured
when northbound electric car iumpec
! the curve at Broadway and Corons
Avenue. Elmhurst. l.. l., and tcarine
along the roadway for twenty feel
crashed into a pole. A defective flane(
on one Of the forward wheels is sale
to have caused the accident. None oil
the passengers. although badly shaker
up and frightened, needed medical aid
On the single track of the Hudson
RIVER line, near Hackensack, yester
day, number of passengers were
slightly injured when two cars me-
head-on. The cars caught fire ant
burned to their trucks After being
attended by physicians, the passengers
were able to go home