New-York tribune., 1920-09-08
AutORl11ls Wild.
Kills Two Bows
And HrlrtsFo11r
Mother of Two, i'm Window,
faints When Car Dashes
Among Children at PLAYS
Hangs Senseless ON Sill

GOO West Fifty-fifth Street. She found
she needed yeast. and went to the front
window to ask her son Jimmy, seven
years old, to get it for her.
When she leaned out of the window
she saw Jimmy and his four-year- old
brother, Cornelius Wyie jr., playing
with four other children across the
street, on the northwest corner Of
Fiftyffth Street and Eleventh Avenue.
Mrs. Wylie had called Jamie" just
once, when big green touring car,
bound north on Eleventh Avenue,
swerved around the corner at a speed
estimated at thrty-fve miles an hour
and plunged into the group of young
sters. Mrs. Wylie tainted and hung,
head down, across the window sill until
friends from the street rushed up and
pulled her back into the room.
When Jamie" heard his mother call
he was engaged in the serious business
of making an equal division of postal
tant which his brother and the other
four children had helped him collect
from neighboring doorways.
FINS Chlid Against House
"There's one for you and one for me
and one for Howard" he was saying
when the roar of an unleashed motor
drowned out his voice and snuffed out
his life at almost the same instant
Howard Schuman, eight years old, who
lives in the same house with the
Wylies, was reaching for his part of
the spoils when the onrushing car
picked him up and pinned him against
the red brick wall Of the house op-
posite his home. He was killed in
stantly.
When the big machine careened over
the curb and into the midst of the
group of youngsters, two men who
were standing on the corner barely
missed being struck. They were Pat
rick Herman, secretary Of Local 824 Of
the Longshoremen's Union, and Pat
rick Corrigan, Company F, 69th Regi-
ment. who Is nursing four wounds re-
ceived in France. They shouted
warning to the children, but it was too
late
The automobile broke through a
stout iron railing, behind which the
six youngsters were, and drove half
its length through the window of an
auto tire store on the corner.
The iron railing pinned several of
the children against the tagging of
the sidewalk, while the demolished
body Of the car carried others part
way through the brick wall Kiernan
and Corrigan called for help, and al
though the soldier was himself dis
abled, they succeeded in extricating the
body of Jamie" Wylie from the
debris.
The two men then dragged out little
Howard Schuman and laid his body
beside that of his chum. By this time
word of the accident had reacbed the The
river and longshoremen came running
up, and with their help the heavy car
vas raised and the other four children
released
Six Children Are Victims
An automobile going north on
Eleventh Avenue was stopped and the
six children were laid in it's tonneau.
Two of them were dead, two uncon-
scious, and two others had broken arms
and legs. The machine drove them to
Roosevelt Hospital
1t was found there that Cornelius
Wylie's both arms were broken. James
McCullen. seven years old, of 791
Eicyenth Avenue, suffered fracture
OF the skull which is expected to prove
fatal. and his five -year-old brother,
Lawrence. had a fractured shoulder
and other injuries. Patrick Gum,
seven years old, of 785 Eleventh Ave
7ue. was reported to have a fractured
skull
The car that caused the tragedy is
said to have been driven by Michael
bowers, twenty-one years old. of 536
vest fiftleth Street, chauffeur en-
ployed by Julius Lichtenstein, a deal
er in second hand automobiles at PIG
West Fifty-eighth Street. Tho driver
face by, the broken windshield of his
own car and the flying fragments of
the plate glass window through which
his machine had plunged.
Immediately after the accident he
climbed out of the car and appeared to
be dazed. He asked Corrigan what he
should do.
"The best thing you can do is stick
around and give US hand with these
kids replied the veteran. Five min
utes later when the crowd began to
look for the driver he had disappeared.
He had not been found at late hour
had been sent out for his arrest on a
homicide charge
Police Break Into Bowers's Home
Detectives from the West Forty
seventh Street station went to Bowers's
home and when they received no an
swer to their ringing Of the doorbell
broke in the door. They found the fiat
empty. Micnae1 Bowers. father of the
chauffeur, came home shortly after the
detectives had broken in and seemed
amazed when told Of what had happened.
He said his son had been driving for
Lichtenstein for nearly year and had
earned the reputation of being a care
full driver.
At Lichtenstein's garage, in West
Fifty eighth Street, the proprietor said
that Bowers had been in his employ
for eleven months and had never had
an accident.
IL talked to Bowers on the phone to-
dav" said Lichtenstein. land tod MN
to go to the local Office of the Secretary
Of State and get some new automo-
bile licenses that have been issued to
us. suppose he was on his way there
when the accident happened"
"Tte moat thrilling acene ever shown on
the screen said the Evening Telegram
of d. w GrIfhths Way Down East saith
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