The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-30
Jitney Bus Overturned and
Demolished in Collision
With Jersey Trolley.
ACTORS CAR KILLS A BOY
Brooklyn Coal Dealer Loses
Life in Trucks Chain Gear
as Horses Run Away.

persons yesterday and the injury Of
seventeen others.
At the Boulevard and Communipaw
avenue, Jersey City. Lincoln Highway
line trolley car. filled with workers on
their way to the Federal Shipbuildins
Company's yards at Kearny, crashed
into jltney bus, owned and operated
by William Palera OF eco Boulevard.
Bayonne. The jitney was overturned
and demolished and eight OF the nfteen
passengers were taken to the City Hos
pitRl. whence four of them went home
after having their hurts attended to.
Palera and William Grass of 40 Court
House place. the motorman. and Will
lam Kelly, the conductor, were arrested
on charges of assault
The four jitney passengers held m the
hospital were Mrs. Mary Magic. &c Dan
forth avenue. Jersey City, suffering from
shock; Edward Soble, "a West Fourth
street, Bayonne, Internal injuries and
injuries to his chest James Brennan, II
West Fifty-second street, Bayonne, dis
location and fracture Of the right shoul-
der, and Robert Davis, 201 Armstrong
avenue. Jersey City, dislocation of the
left shoulder.
The four who went home after treat
ment were Albert Salvatore. 1s1 Ocean
avenue, Jersey City, fracture of the left
arm: George Widemeyer, 90 West Thir-
teenth street, Bayonne. decorations of
the hand and wrist; Mrs. Mary Roth,
356 Woodlawn avenue. shock. and Nell
Orsen, 627 Boulevard, Bayonne, lacera-
lions about the body.
The following passengers were sent
directly to their homes from the scene
OF the accident after being attended by
physicians for slight cuts and bruises:
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman. 204, Bartholdy
avenue, Jersey City; John Eggenberg,
1858 Broadway; Robert Hemer, ~ West
Forty-seventh street: John II. Mapphi.
II West Thirty-frst street John Wright
and Mrs Dorothy Wright, AZ West Fiji
ty-trst street, and Ida Goldman. 81 West
Twenty seventh street, all of Bayonne.
Jed Prouty'. Car Kills a boy.
Three boys playing on Eighty-third
street between Broadway and West End
avenue ran in front of Jed Prouty's au-
tomobile yesterday. James Smith, 10
years old. b07 Amsterdam avenue, was
killed and the other two boys were in
jured slightly
going to a dinner party with his wife
and mother. They left the Hotel Lu
cerne, where they have rooms. and go;
into their car, driven by Charles Sileo, L
chauffeur, of 32S West Forty-fourth
street
On Eighty-third street between Broad
way and West End avenue an automo
bile was drawn up alongside the south
curb and on the north side. directly OF
posite, moving van was backed up
Traffic space was small. Proceeding
slowly and sounding his filaxon the
chauffeur was just passing the vehicles
when the three boys ran across the
street directly in front Of the automo-
bile.
Mrs. Prouty screamed. The boys were
knocked in three different directions.
Sileo put on his brakes and avoided
running over them. Some one picked
up Smith and. putting him In an auto
mobile. rushed him TO the Memorial Hos
pital. where DIR. Vogt found he was
dead
Mrs. Prouty and her mother had got
out OF the car in a bad state Of nervous
excitement. Women In the neighbor-
hood took them away from the scene.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Prouty hustled one OF
the boys. George Black years old. OF
511 Amsterdam avenue, to Roosevelt
Hospital. He was not seriously injured.
suffering mostly from shock and contu-
sions.
In the excitement no one was paying
any attention to tho other boy, John
Hauser. Z years old, and living at 500
Amsterdam avende. He was lying on
the street when Patrolman Lyons of
the West Sixty-eiShth street station
found him and sent in a call TO the
Knickerbocker Hospital for an ambu-
lance. Hauser was the least hurt of
the three. The ambulance surgeon
oh a,H, -
went home badly shaken.
When Lyons began to look for the
car which had hit the boys, he could
not find it. Later. however. Mr.. Prouty
went to tha station and told Lieut..
Hamil how the accident happened.
About the same time a sailor told his
version of the AFFAIR as he had seen 1t,
stating that the chauffeur was not TO
blame. No arrests were made.
John Smith. James father. went to
the hospital and identified the body of
his son. Then he went home and tried
to look as II nothing had happened. HIS
wife is sick. She is going to DO operated
on this week. and the shock of such
news might kill her. So he said nothing
to her OF their sons death.
Caught I'm Trucks Driving Gear.
4525 Seventh avenue. Brooklyn, was
killed at Bay Ridge avenue and Shore
road yesterday afternoon when he went
under an automobile truck driven by
Joseph E. Gombe OF 24S Eighteenth
street, Astoria, Queens. Mantione's two
horses became frightened at the appear
ance of the truck. He was eating his
lunch by the roadside and sprang for
their heads. He missed the bride rein
and fell forward into the trucks driving
gear The chain wound around him sew
eral times and hook and ladder truck
from Engine Company ia had to be
called from F1fty-second street and Sec
ond avenue 10 extricate him. Mantione's
skull was fractured
An automobile truck belonging to the
Marine Corps and operated by Sergeant
Robert T. Bell. stationed at the New
York Navy Yard, ran down and instant
ly killed Tony Trocione, 7, of Pas High
street, at Nassau and Navy streeIs,
Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon. The no
lice say the lad stepped from behind a
wagon directly in front of the approach
ing truck.
Joseph Mazurkowitz Z, Of 327 Hopkin-
son avenue. Brooklyn. was killed yester-
day afternoon while crossing the strees
In front of his home when he was struck
by motor car owned by Mrs. Ruth
Wentworth OF 34s st. Johns place and
operated by Roger Wentworth No ar
rest was made as the police said the
accident was unavoidable
Three Die in Motor Crash.