New-York tribune., 1921-04-18
20 Hurt When
Auto Wrecks
Hospital Bus
Speeding Touring Car Hits
Vehicle Containing Visit
ors Bound Home From
the Fox Hills Institution
Veteran Rescues Women
Chops Two, Who May Die,
Out of Debris Before Ar
rival of Police and Doctor

Twenty persons were injured, two
perhaps fatally, yesterday when a mo-
tor bus owned and driven by Charles
A. Lindquist, Of 523 Third Avenue
operating between Fox Hills Hospital
and st. George, Staten Island, was
struck by a touring car going forty
miles an hour as it rounded the corner
at Tompkins and Norwood avenues, St.
George.
The force of the collision was so great
that the bus was dashed against curb
ing and upset, thirty passengers being
imprisoned in it. The one exit in the
forward end was blocked.
Otto Nusser, of 426 Vanderbilt Ave
nue., who was driving the touring car.
was thrown through his windshield and
cut with glass, being rendered uncon-
scious, while two young women, be-
lieved at first to be dead, were removed
from the wreckage of the bus by Ser
geant William De Beers, a war veteran.
who chopped them out with an ak.
Miss Jessie Mason, twenty-three
years old, of 33 Harrison Street, and
Miss Jennie Sorge, twenty-eig'.t, of 65
Murtha Street, Passaic. N. j., were re-
moved to the Staten Island Hospital
unconscious by De Beers. who COM
mandeered an automobile. Miss
Mason has a compound fracture of the
skull and Miss Sorge is suffering from
concussion of the Lrain and internal
injuries. Both were in a critical con-
dition late last night.
Doctors Williamson and Jordan, of
the Staten Island Hospital. and DR..
Morrison, of st. Vincent's Hospital, gave
emergency treatment to the injured
after detachment of police from
Stapleton had righted the motor bus
and q company of f1remen from Hook
and Ladder 81, Of Stapleton, had re-
severely injured were rushed to the
Staten Island Hospital. Fifteen pas
sengers were treated by DR.. Marsden
at the Stapleton Police Station. They
refused to go to the hospital. Their
names are:
Irene Mahoney, twenty-three years
old, of 249 Morris Avenue, the Bronx,
left leg lacerated; Margaret E. Quigley,
twenty-three, of 625 Rugby Road,
Brooklyn, cut on left leg; Katherine
Goetz, twenty-one, of 803 Flatbush
Avenue, Brooklyn, lacerated leg; Jennie
Sorge, twenty-five, of rs Merther Ave
nue., FaSSalc, IN. D., c0nCuSlOnS OF body;
Julia Hebelselm, twenty-four, of 100
Third Street, Passaic, N. j., arm lacer-
ated
Bus On Way from Hospital
The bus was returning to St. George
when the wreck occurred. Most of the
passengers had been visiting patients
at the Fox Hills Hospital.
Sergeant De Beers, who rescued the
two young women, cut the entire rear
section from the bus and removed the
two sufferers, departing with them for
the hospital before police reserves ar
rived from Stapleton. De Beers ran
into house and begged an ak. With
this he attacked the woodwork of the
bus and cut hole. Crawling through
he dragged the unconscious girls. from
beneath debris of overturned seats
and shattered glass. Placing them in
an automobile that had been standing
near the scene of the wreck he started
for the hospital at once.
De Beers said later that his expert.
ence in the hospital sectors in France
had shown him how to select badly in
jured from a group Of wounded.