Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-07-01
WOMAN IS KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Touring Car With TottenvilIe
Party Crashed Into Auto Van
Early Yesterday Morning
CAR COMPLETELY WRECKED
Were Returning From Great
! Kills Beach After Late Sup
per--Five Were Injured
b specsai Correspondent.

TOTTENvILLE, July lone
woman was killed and five other
people were injured in an automobile
accident in Amboy road near Beden
avenue at 3:15, o'clock yesterday
morning when car In which they
were riding collided with an auto van.
The automobile was turned over on
its side and completely wrecked.
The occupants of the car, all local
people, were returning from Great
Kills Beach where 1t Is said they had
had a late supper.
I come over on the last boat from
- Perth Amboy at 2:45 o'clock and was
going toward st. George.
Mrs. Emma Peifer, thirty-four
years old, wife of Charles III. PETER
Of 1877 Bentley street, was thrown out
on her head and received fractured
skdll. She was killed instantly.
Mrs. Ida Hilker, twenty-eight years
old, wife of Charles Hilker of 1892
Amboy road, the most severely, In
jured of the five. is at the Staten Is
land Hospital. She received q broken
collar bone, dislocated right shoulder
and severe laceration of the right
foot which required several stitches to
taken IN the wound.
the wound.
She refused to go to the hospital in
the ambulance at first, but about 10
o'clock yesterday morning was taken
down BY AUTOMOBILES. The others in
fured were John w. Kragenow, thirty
four years old. of 1872 Amoby road.
driver of the automobile. He received
severe lacerated scalp and minor
injuries. Mr.. Peiffer, forty-two
years old, husband of the woman
killed, received a lacerated scalp, cuts
and decorations of the left leg and
bruised right arm. Charles Hilker,
received abrasions and Clinton Felch,
fhirty-four years old of Al Satterlee
avenue. received decorations Of the
face.
All Of the injured were attended by
DR.. Washington and DR.. Coleman, of
Tottenville, and DR.. Skidmore, of the
Staten Island hospital. who came with
the ambulance. Solomon Silver, of
SIS West 161st street, Manhattan,
owner OF the auto van; Irving Hori-
gil. Of S1s West 18th street, Man
haitian, chauffeur and John Brown, of
1920 West 52nd street, Manhattan. a
laborer, all on the truck, escaped in
jury.
Kragenow and Horigil were arrest
ed by Captain Ernest Van Wagner
and Detective Schley, of the Ninth
Branch Bureau. shortly after the acct
dent and are out under bail. Krage-
now IL held in $4,000 and Horigill in
for hearing tomorrow. Hilker, Silver
and Brown are each under 500 bail
as material witnesses.
Just who is at fault will probably
be determined IN court at the hearing.
Hilker at first was arrested on a
interfering with Captain Van Wag-
ner when he was trying to ascertain
the facts of the accident.
When arraigned in court before
Magistrate Evins In tho first district
court that charge was changed and
he was held only as a material WITT
ness. Kragenow has a record for au-
tomobile accidents. this making his
third, and once he was arrested for
speeding and fined s25 in the police
court.
This accident is said to have been
the worse seen In this vicinity. The
screams of the injured aroused the en-
tire neighborhood where II happened
and the home OF William McAndrews
where the injured were taken, was
made a temporary hospital. Mrs. Me-
Andrews. her daughter Gladys and son
Frank and her husband assisted
the physicians, as did Charles Hamil-
ton and John Scherb, who We're tbe
nrst on the scene. Patrolman Cotter
and William Taylor. of Yetman ave-
nue.. taxi driver. also did good work
The driver OF the auto van told the
police that he saw the lights of the
approaching automobile which an
peared to him to be zigzagging back
and forth on the road. He brought
xhis truck almost TO a standstill and
rQm the position of II after the acct
1emed to bear that fact out. as
struck on the left side tearing
{nudguard and lay resting at
on the opposite side of the
pa which 1t was going. II is
hat a misjudgment of the
ClsSY In passing the truck caused
the automobile to sideswipe the
truck
Assistant District Attorney Frank
Innes. with an official Photographer
OF tie police department Were at the
wreck about II o'clock YESTERDAY
morning and took measurements and
Photographs One of the wheels OF
the wrecked car was thrown nearly
a hundred feet from the car over into
a field. Hundreds of people visited
the scene OF the accident during the
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Peifer were ali
packed up to move to Manhattan to-
day. where he had taken a new posi-
ton He worked at the Hilnard
plant where Kragenow is a foreman.
The funeral OF Mrs. Peifer will be
held tonight at 1870 o'clock from her
late residence in Bentley street Rev
J. +. BindenbergeF. of ST. PauI,s Meth
odist church, viii officiate. The body
win be taken tomorrow TO her former
home in Phoenixvflle. Pa. where an
other service will be held at TIE home
Of her sister on Wednesday.