New-York tribune., 1918-08-06
Eleven Injured, None Seri-
ously, in Two Surface
Car Collisions
3 Bathers Overcome
Motorman on Long Island
Train Killed at Pennsyl-
vania Station

Eleven persons were hurt yesterday
IN two surface car collisions in New
York, one child was killed by an auto
mobile. four were hurt by motor
cycle, one was drowned, three persons
were overcome while bathing, the body
of q drowned man was found, woman
was killed by an elevated train, boy
fell from tireescape and was killed, a
woman died from gas asphyxiation, the
motorman of train lost his life when
his train ran into a concrete wall in
the Pennsylvania Station and man
sustained a fracture of the spine when
handtruck fell on him.
Seven of those injured in car COL
isions were victims of crash at
Jamaica Avenue and Queens Boule-
ward. Jamaica. where a Manhattan
bound car left the rails and hit one
going in the opposite direction. The
most seriously hurt was Corporal Otto
Gurnsey, of the 17th Canteen Company
at Babylon, Long Island. twenty-six
He had scalp wounds and bruises and
was taken to St. Mary's Hospital.
The other streetcar collision, in
which four persons were hurt. was at
the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn
Bridge, where Flatbush Avenue car
bumped into a Court Street car. Wal
ter Matth hews, sixty, of 364 Twenty
sixth Street, was cut on the face and
lost several teeth. The others injured
were John Borre. forty, ITO North
Street, contusions of the leg and
right shoulder; Nicolas Strethakis,
forty, 776 Academy Street, Newark, n.
j.. decorations of the leg, and Andrew
Nielsen, tifty-tive, 1923 Fifth Avenue,
Brooklyn. contusions.
summons was served on Robert
Henderson, of 531 Atlantic Avenue,
Brooklyn. motorman of the Flatuusn
Avenue car.
Joseph Holland, Of 24l East Forty
sixth Street. was killed by motor
truck near his home. Thomas Anasto,
of 433 West Fortieth Street, driver of
the truck, was arrested. Witness ses
told the police that he was on the
wrong side of the street.
Avenue, fell into the East River while
and was drowned.
Sophie Odle, twenty-nine, of 1S
South Wavecrest Avenue, Arverne, and
Sadie Welsz, twenty five, OF 521 Deca
tur Street, Brooklyn. were overcome
while bathing off Wavecrest Avenue,
Rockaway Beach. George Marks. thir-
ty-two, Of Wavecrest Avenue and the
Boardwalk, started to their rescue and
also was overcome. The three were
brought ashore by John Holdmeyer, of
/ Wygand Place, and Walter Bayley, of
33 South Hammels Avenue, Rockaway
Beach Miss Weisz was taken to Rock
away Beach Hospital.
The body of Albert Kraatz, thirty
six years old, of 1853 Raymond Street.
Brooklyn, was found in the East River
at Ninetytirst Street. He had been
missing since July "a from Lincoln
Hospital, The Bronx, where he was an
orderly.
AS a northbound Sea Beach train
drew into the Twenty-second Street
station, Brooklyn, a woman jumped or
fell from the platform to the track
and was killed. Her body has not been
identified.
Thomas Coughlin, five, fell three
at 1853 East Fifty Street and was
killed
Mrs. Bertha Louise Steine, fifty four,
of GOA West 112th Street, was found by
her husband, Frederick L., dead from
asphyxiation on the floor Of the bath
room of their home. According to the
police the woman had been suffering
from nervous prostration
A motorcycle, ridden by Gustav Elm
strong, of 552 Fifty-ffth Street, Brook
lyn took to the sidewalk at Myrtle Ave
nue. and Sandol Street, Glendale,
Queens, slightly injuring Madeline
Hunder, six months old, and her sister
Anna, eleven, of 25l8 Myrtle Avenue,