The sun., 1919-07-05
5 DEATHS IN LIST |.
OF 4TH ACCIDENTS
Brothers Bathing OFF Coney
When One Is Killed by
Radio Wire.
wOMAN's BODY IN CREEK
Other Fatalities Caused BY
Motor Crashes-Many
Are Injured.


Eight fatalities and a score OF accf.
dents in and around New York was
the toll Of yesterdays celebration. Most
OF the accidents were the result Of chill
dren using firearms to shoot blank
cartridges, and several of the deaths re-
suited from auto collisions on the road.
Samuel Posner, "a, a medical student
Of 1877 Southern Boulevard. was electro
cuted yesterday afternoon while in BATH
ing at Coney Island. Posner left his
brother at the foot of West Thirty-sev-
enth street. and swan out to some rocks,
where a warning read: Radio wires,
Dangerous" These wires extend from
the radio station at Sea Gate, and are
charged with 1900 volts. Posner grabbed
one, and was Instantly killed. His body
was brought to shore and identified by
his brother.
The body OF an unidentified woman
was found in the Coney Island Creek at
the foot OF Fourteenth street early yes
terday morning. Bernard Human. a
woman, said she had been drowned but
a few hours.
The woman was fully dressed and
there was nothing to indicate she had
been the victim OF foul play. She was
about 35 years old, 5 feet 4 inches IN
height. light complexioned. brown eyes
and brown hair, and she wore white
dress with blue stripes, and white canvas
shoes. The body Is in the Coney Island
Hospital morgue.
A one pound shell exploded as Evelyn
Lightfoot, a twelve-year-old negress,
played with It in front Of her home, 9
West Ninety ninth street The girls
left wrist and ankle were burned and
lacerated. She was sent to the Knicker-
booker Hospital.
Firecracker Injuries Man.
An unidentified boy tossed a lighted
firecracker into a well filled surface car
at Eighth avenue and 147th street. II
exploded the instant 1t struck Patrick
Slattery, 81. of 314 West 142d street. in
the face. Slattery was painfully burned.
Morate Aldermichian. IA, of AT East
Twenty-fifth street had a joyful time
celebrating with a .22 calibre revolver
| in front of his home until the gun ex-
ploded and a bullet ploughed into his left
palm. DR.. NJ. J. Cowett OF Bellevue
| Hospital attended him. -..
Gustave Keelanberger. a chauffeur
| living at 913 Brook avenue. The Bronx.
| discharged 80 calibre revolver in Elton
| avenue, near 154th street. Magistrate
| George Simpson in the Morrisania court
| held him for trial.
| Edward Tompkins, a discharged SOL
dier, of Cos Cob, was loading toy can
non yesterday afternoon, when 1t OK
| ploded in his hands. Two fingers Of his
| left hand were blown off and his arm
was fractured.
| While seated in the window Of his
home on the fourth floor of As Carmine
! street last night, Frank Ziegler, ~. was
i shot in the hand by some unknown per-
| son celebrating in the street below. His
| wound was dressed at st. Vincents Hos
| pital
| At about the same time, Tony Son-
! tani 10, who lives across the street from
Zlegler. was shot in the hand when .
| cartridge he was playing with banged
! against milk can and exploded.
Mrs. Anna Finite Of S34 First avenue
left her three-year-old son Charles on
! fire escape on the fourth floor Of the
I tenement house last night, and went into
her kitchen for a minute. When she
! returned she saw the child slip through
the iron grating and crush to death on
| the pavement below.
! JoIted to Death From Truck.
! Fred Dietz, is, OF, 90 Charlotte street,
, Richmond Hill, was jolted from an au-
! tomobile truck at Metropolitan and Left
ferts avenues yesterday afternoon, when
! the truck struck a rut In the road. A
rear wheel ran over him. causing inju-
ries from which he died an hour later in
/ St Mary's HOSPITAL
Two men were killed early yesterday
! morning when their motorcycle crashed
! into a Newark and Hackensack trolley
! on Hasbrouck Heights. Hackensack. The
men were Lorenzo Fuccello. 81, and
Michael Amino. 49, of IS Washington
! street, lodi y. J.
! w L, Reeves. soldier connected with
| the navy rifle range at Caldwell, N j..
| while riding a motorcycle from Engle-
wood toward Hackeusack spun into Q
| ditch near Hackensack 10 avoid a West
| Shore train. His skull was fractured.
| George Sanderson OF 1904 Lafayette
| avenue, Brooklyn. was thrown from his
auto truck at Ridgewood, n. j.. and the
! machine ran over him, breaking his
right leg
| While playing IN the street IN front OF
| his home, on Hasbrouck Heights, Willie
| O'Dell. s, was run over by an automo-
bile and seriously hurt. The automobile
| sped away.
Two occupants OF a motorcycle which
| colided with an automobile on the State
| road near the home OF Charles r
| Murphy in Good Ground, L. J.. are dead
Miss Dora Harding. "a. visiting her sis
/ ter at Southampton. and Burton L. Pow
/ ley, n butler of Southampton. are the
! victims.
| Michael O'Hara. IS, OF S17 East Fifty
| eighth street, was instantly killed last
night while crossing Third avenue at
! SiXty-fourth street by an automobile
truck owned by the Dockerman Storage
| Company,
| TRAIN HITS MOTOR