New-York tribune., 1920-12-09
I Dies, 20 Hurt
4 $ Fifth Ave-.
Bus Overttlrns
Driver Killed Trying to
t.void Collision With a
coal Trnck at 10Th ST.;
Ran Vehicle Into Curb
" ealthy Give First Aid
i3omes Turned Into Emer-
gency Hospitals; Inquiry
Begun to Fix the Blame

One man was killed and about twenty
rersons we're injured by the overturn-
ss Of crowded Fifth Avenue bus
hen the driver, in attempting to avoid
r collision with a coal truck al Fifth
Avenue and Seventy ninth Street, yes
terday morning, steered the bus into
the curb and hurled the passengers,
with the twisted wreckage, on to the
sidewalk
Frank Cullen, 111t Park Avenue, the
driver, who stuck to his wheel when it
appeared that the bus, running south
as a no-stop express between 10th and
FIfty-ninth streets, was about TO jam
snto a coal truck which ran into the
avenue from Seventy ninth Street was
found pinned under the wreckage. He
died a. the Icnox Hill Hospital of q
racture of the skull and internal in
urics Most Of the passengers who
vere injured were thrown off the top
seats. Those inside were badly cut by
broken glass, while number were in
iured b. shock when the bus hit fire
alarm box and an electric light pole.
Relief for the injured was furnisi. ed
bl number of Fifth Avenue residents
Mrs J + FEEDER turned her home at
s73 Firth Avenue into an emergency
hospital where some OF the injured
we're given first aid by Mrs. FEEDER and
members OK her household. Mrs Harry
Payne Whitney was among score of
women who organized an autom obile
corps to send the more seriously in
jLred to hospitals.
The Injured
Among the injured were:
frederick Rothenhauser, COZ East
Eighty-third Street, conductor Of the
bus; fracture Of the ribs, taken to
Mount Sinai Hospital, where it was
said his injuries may prove fatal.
Florence Fleck, 551 West 10th Street,
consusiors Of the spine; taken to
Mount Sinai. Mrs. Anna Gastenman,
55l West l70t' Street, sister of Miss
fleck: internal injuries; taken to
Mount Sinai. Helen Herman. 101 West
1f2th Street, fracture of the right arm;
taken to Flower Hospital. Myra
Harris, - West l11th Street. internal
injuries; taken 10 Flower Hospital.
Nathan Frank, 235 Fort Washington
Avenue. sent home. Helen McDer-
mott, 56S est 173d Street, attended
for hvsteria. and sent home. Lawrence
Wolf, 4f3 West 163d Street, three
wears old; taken TO Lenox Hill Hospi-
tal. Mary Y. Russell, 559 West 169th
Stree taken to Presbyterian Hospi-
tai. Ros Galldank, 1913 West li2th
street, possible fracture Of the skull
taken 10 Flower Hospital. Annie
Rubin. 500 West l76th Sire It. a book
keeper; taken home. Mrs. Catherine
NcEllgott. 5O7 West 10th Street,
fracture OF the skull; taken to Flower
Hospital. Mary Ilaritz. $40 West Hist
Street. contusions of the spine taken
% Lenox Hill Hospital. Rose Libert
Ii rwitz, 1884 Seventh Avenue; taken
to Lenox Hill Hospital.
Among those less seriously injured
we're Fred Strauss, 245 East Eighty
first Street; Murray Gardner, 525 West
17eth Street; Eta Roth 531 West
l7+th Street; Gertrude Mather. $50
West 10th Street; David Lieberman,
90 West lT2d Street, and Fannie Sill
herman, = West 10th Street.
Coal Truck Driver Held
A charge of homicide was placed
against Alfred Meyer, PSI York Street,
Jersey City, the owner and driver of
III coal truck Magistrate Edgar V.
Fioth ngham, at the Yorkvillc Court,
held Meyer in $500 bail pending 8
Tearing tomorrow. William O'Shaugn-
nessey, Assistant District Attorney,
VINO examined witnesses. said he had
learned that the bus was going south
on FIFTH Avenue at the rate of twenty
lies an hour when the coal truck ran
before i'.
Traffic Patrolman Ziegler. who was
ca duty At Fifth Avenue and Eighty
second Street. on seeing the bus crash
into the fire alarm box and topple over
on the sidewalk sent in q call for am
h3iances from all nearby hospitals and
then ran TO the scene Pedestrians
aad automobile drivers assisted in
lacking UP the wrecked bus to release
She passengers who were caught inside
and to extricate Cullen.
Iwo-thirds of the passengers were
riding on top of he bus Some of them
were whirles off by the sudden turn
lefofe the vehicle hit the tirebox pole.
Meyer was able 70 reverse the mechan-
lam of the truck before 1t nit the side
walk. bat its momentum was so great
ss 20 throw IL near the bus. Meyer was
rniniurei.
Representatives Of the Police Depart
.aent. the eMdical Examiners Office and
is District Attorney began an inves-
t.gatiou 70 determine responsibility Cor
the accident.