The sun., 1919-07-24
THREE DIE, 4HURT
IN MOTOR ACCIDENTS
Six Children Injured When
Two Cars Jump Curb
to Stops.
GIRLS CAR OVERTURNS
Child Killed at ROckaway
Beach and Chauffeur Is
Arrested.

Three persons were killed and fourteen
ir jured. some OF them seriously, in auto
mobile accidents caused by the wet
pavements yesterday and late Tuesday
night
Among the injured were six children
hurt in Newark in accidents Of a pre-
cisely similar nature. Three Of them
were injured when an automobile driven
by Michael Enclezes jumped the curb
and ran iPto porch on which the chill
dren were playing. One of them, Tessie
Cerevot. 7, was burned from gasolene,
which became ignited in the collision.
and was cut about the head. The
chauffeur was held without bail for
driving without a license.
Not more than two or three hours
later another automobile jumped the
curbing and pinned Daisy. Constantine
and Mary Dilrunni, 7, 5 and years
respectively, to the steps of their home
In 14S Academy street. Newark They
were taken to st. Mary's Hospital. where
1t was found that Daisy's skull was frac-
tured and that she was severely burned.
Mary was burned about the body and
cut about the head and Constantine was
cut on the head.
While riding a bicycle on tho Merrick
road and Remsen street, near Spring
field, l.. l.. Henry LanZinger. 80 years
old, OF Springfield avenue, Springfield
was struck by commercial automobile
owned by the Schultz Baking Company
OF Jamaica and operated by Edward b.
Cordes Of Gilbert street. Jamaica. He
was taken to the Jamaica Hospital and
died shortly after. No arrests have
been made in the case.
Girl Driver Loses Control.
Miss Virginia Pendleton. IS. of 253
Eighty fourth street. Brooklyn, was
driving in Seventy-siXth street when the
| car skidded and crashed into a Fifth
| avenue trolley car. The machine over
| turned, throwing the girl out She was
cut about the body and was taken to
her homo. Miss Elizabeth Boyle IS, OF
| l5S Eighty-fourth street. Brooklyn ard
| Jack Silva. a sailor. who were in the
car with Miss Pendleton, were slightly
| injured
Barney Edelfrank. 80, of 407 Kos
| ciusko street, Brooklyn, was pinned be-
tween two automobiles while crossing
Broadway nj Gates avenue. Brooklyn
| and received severe bruises and probable
| Internal injuries One OF the machines
was owned by the Borden Farm Prod
uCts Company. The other driven by
| Joseph Sohn OF 26s Monroe street
! skidded as Sohn tried 10 avoid the acct
dent. The injured man was taken to the
| Bushwick Hospital.
| The steering gear on an automobile
| belonging to Stroh & wilson, engineers
| lao Manhattan avenue and driven by
| Peter Barna, 26T West l46th streer. sud
| denly became contrary yesterday after
| noon as the machine was passing the St
| Margaret Hotel. 1877 West Forty sew
| enth street. headed cast. Barna turned
| on moro gas and his car leaped TO the
| sidewalk before he could check 1t.
Benjamin Burgman, Z East Forty
seventh street was struck and thrown to
the stoop OF the house he was passing
| Then the motor car moved down two
| young stenographers, Miss May Nc
Quade, 75l Pelhamdale avenue, Pelham,
and Miss Grace Richards SS Aqueduct
| place, Eonkers. Both are employed at
! the Pacific Bank. at Seventh avenue and
| Forty ninth street. and were on their
way TO the Grand Central Terminal.
! The young women screamed as they
| went under the machine, which dragged
| them for twenty feet before It could be
stopped Passersby assisted Patrolman
| Samuel Kundsen Of the West Forty
seventh street station to lift the car
bodily from the sem, conscious girls. DR..
| Davis answered an ambulance call from
| Bellevue Hospital and took them to the
| West Forty-seventh street station, where
| their numerous abrasions were dressed.
Their clothing was badly torn and they
| were suffering from shock. Upon their
refusal to be taken TO the hospital they
we're sent to their homes in an automo-
bile
| Barna was arrested on a charge OF
reckless driving and of violating the
traffic regulations. The police say his
car was on the northerly side OF the
street where 1t had no business to be.
Chauffeur Held in $4,000.
Morris f. JOY of 95 Bergen street.
| Newark. chauffeur was held yester-
day in s2,500 ball on a charge of man
slaughter by Prosecutor Harrison In
Newark Late Tuesday Joy ran down
| seven-y ear-old Kathleen Harris of 40
Bank street, on Breintnal place near
High street, Newark. The girl was on
her way to the movies with her mother
when she darted across the street.
Josephine Casalla, 16, OF 1922 Am
sterdam avenue was seriously injured
last night at Amsterdam avenue and
l45th street by an automobile owned
and operated by Thomas Mogul, 7s0
Ellsmere place. The Bronx. DR.. Frank
Johnson OF knickerbocker Hospital said
tHt Nltblih was sulLc'i hb IiNAii q pSoS'otS
fracture of the skull and general con-
tusions. She was taken to the hospital
No arrest was made.
Harry Barazani, 8. OF rs Grandreu
avenue, Rockaway Beach, was killed hlsi
might in Beach Eighth street and the
Boulevard, Rockaway Beach. by an au-
tomobile driven by Alfred Rand. a chauf.
feur for Joseph Rosenberg & Sons, Sc
Townsend street, Brooklyn.
In the car with Rand was Miltor
Rosenberg, a son of one OF the members
of the firm. and fve other men. RanG
! was arrested on a technical charge Of
homicide and will be arraigned to- day II
the notice court AT jamaica