New-York tribune., 1919-09-22
Ambulance Hits
Auto in Brooklyn;
Several Injured
Speeding Car Pl,1nges OFF
Staten Island Dock and
Two Have Narrow Escape:
Boys at Jersey City Hurt

several persons were injured, two of
them seriously, when WyckofF
Heights Hospital ambulance crashed
into touring car last night at Gates
and Reid avenues, Brooklyn.
Leo c. Miller, of 822 Gates Avenue,
was returning home with his wife,
Leona, his three-y -year-old daughter,
Violet, and his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Kate Hughes, of 9OS Gates Avenue,
driving east on Gates Avenue. The
ambulance, operated by julius Schmitt,
OF 253 Stockholm Street, and with DR..
Arthur }. Berger standing up inside
the conveyance, was coming north on
held Avenue. Schmitt later admitted
to the police he was going at thirty
miles. Bystanders declared he was
going forty.
-, The two machines collided squarely.
me tour wheels were ripped from
Mliier's car and it was propelled into
telephone pole, throwing it's occu-
pants to the pavement. The ambulance
crashed into the window of William J.
settles drug store on the corner, show
ering glass in all directions among the
Nhrohg Oh passing pedestrians.
Injured Saving Wife
Among the latter were Charles Hag-
meyer end his wife, of 1853 Putnam
Avenue. Hagmeycr pushed his wife
rom the path of the ambulance. but
was himself jammed up against the
window frame. His right leg was
broken and he received internal in
juries. Mrs. IIagmeyer tainted.
Meanwhile DR.. Berger, in spite of a
deep cash in his head, had assisted in
the removal Of the Miller family to the
drug store and treated them until the
arrival of a Bushwick Hospital ambu-
iancc surgeon. Mrs. Hugues was
found to be the worst hurt She was
attended at Bushwick Hospital, whittier
Hagmeyer was also taken, for internal
injuries.
Mrs. Miller and the little girl were
painfully bruised. Miller escaped with
q few scratches.
Edward c. Haviland and his eight
year-old daughter, Margaret, Of 637
Monroe Street; Mrs. Ella Hayiland and
Her daughter, Marge Nelson, also
eight years old, of 1923 Snyder Ave
nue. We're cut by flying glass. Mar
garet Haviland received q deep wound
in the neck
Schmltt and Miller we're each served
with SummonSeS to appear in court to-
day.
Two Brooklyn Men Hurt
Two Brooklyn men had narrow es-
capes from drowning yesterday when
the automobile in which they were
speeding to catch a ferryboat ran off
the dock at St. George, s. l., into fifty
feet of water They are Charles Helt,
OF POI Norman Avenue, and Edward
Miller, of 104 West Street.
Helt owns and was driving the big
touring car. He had but a few minutes
to make the 3:l5 p. m. boat and was
driving in South Street at so fast q
rate that he could not make the turn to
the lett which leads to the ferry house
he machine shot over the end of the
dock and Pelt and Miller were hurled
through the windshield and into the
| bay
Some of the crew of the ferry boa,
| Gaynor. just about to leave the pier
! lowered lifeboat and rowed to the res.
| cue. The two men were badly cut anC
suffered from submersion. They were
taken to Staten Island Hospital. The
| automobile has not yet been raised
feilX Dltrck, twenty-five years old
OF 2o7 Windham Street, Jersey City
was probably fatally injured, and Will.
1919 49, ~ScFcl, Oh % clare
mont Avenue, Jersey City, was hurt Sc
badly that his right leg had to be am.
putated, when the driver of the car they
were riding in attempted to escape from
a Westiield, N. j., policeman, who placed
nm under arrest for driving without a
Incense The machine hit trolley pole
while gong sixty miles an hour
Asserts Auto Was Stolen
The automobile was later claimed
by B: N. Reamcr, of 227 Clinton Ave-
nue., Jersey City, who said it had been
stolen from his garage Saturday night.
Dltrlck and Darcy were removed to
the Muhlenburg Hospital, Plaintield.
Inc former has critical internal in
Jurles. Two other men who were with
them escaped after the crash.
Slx-year-old Max Baum, of IS East
10th Street, was killed last night by
an automobile which ran him down at
Fifth Avenue and 10th Street. The
car was driven by Everett J. Toussant.
of "a Monroe Street, Mount Vernon
who was held at the East lO4th Street
station on technical charge of homi
eide.
A defective brake on the bicycle of
Leonard Denoiuo, thirty years old, of
43I West Twenty-tifth Street, who was
riding on Broadway, near 225th Street.
caused him to collide with an auto
mobile driven by Albert Hyman, of
52S West 175th STREET. The cyclist was
cut about the head and body and
treated at 81 Youyvorca uosr;%,Y