New-York tribune., 1921-06-02
Dead, 25 Hurt
Is Days Toll of
Auto Accidents
Truck Rams 5ih Ave. Bus
After Hitting Limousine,
Iuiures More Than Score
and Ties Up Traffic
Mob Threatens Women
pursues Car After Boy of S
Is Killed; Two Other Lads
Victims of Motorists


Three deaths resulted from automo-
Aas accidents yesterday and more than
.,ore Of persons were injured.
Five persons were seriously and
twenty slightly hurt late yesterday
.ftsrnoon when tive-ton motor truck
.sruck Fifth Avenue bus norchhound
:, Fifth Avenue and Eightyffth
Street.
The accident occurred when traffic
was at its heaviest and resulted in one
~ the worst jams ever seen in Fifth
Avenue.
the seriously injured are;
Msv Rotholz, thirty-fve years old, of
.bs Hotel Theresa. 125th Street and
seventh Avenue, lacerations of the
,cslp and severe contuslons of the
bosv. Taken to Flower Hospital.
Rose Cowan, thirty years old, 39S
rdgecoulb Avenue, fracture of the left
tsee and lacerations OF the. scalp and
eoptus;ons of the face and body. Taken
10 Mount Sinai Hospital.
Helen Bader, eighteen years old, an
actress not known, contusions of the
hack and cuts and bruises of the face
and bodv. Taken to Mount Sinai Hos
pital.
william Ahrens, twenty-three years
aid 7s East 122d Street. and Harry
yrlipg. his assistant, Of 2o1 East 12oth
Street both suffering from severe
,.esrations. attended at Mount Sinai
Hospi.al and sent home
First Hits Limousine
Ahrens. driving the truck owned by
k;s father. was going south in Fifth
Avenue. AS he approached Eighty
sftb Street an automobile that had
besn running in front of the truck
stopped dead. according to Ahrens, who
told the police he swerved TO the left
IN order to avoid collision. AS he
I'D 50 the truck struck q limousine
operated by Dudley H. Prabot, of 4S
Proad Street, member of the Cam
bridge Engineering Company. Several
women were with Prabot in the ma
chine.
The limousine was badly damaged
but according TO police reports, none
Of the occupants was hurt. Swerving
again, Ahrens's truck hit the Fifth
Avenue bus as it swung into the north
side Of Eighty-ffth Street.
TIE bus, which was thrown against
the cgrbing. narrowly missed being up
set by force of the impact. Its win
d9vs were shattered and many pas
ssngers were cut by broken gisss. Lee
Aary, OF 427 East l34th Street, chauf
teur Of the bus, escaped injury and wa
ate able to drive the vehicle away
aBde. It's own power.
Ahreas, driver of the truck. was
sslTeG with q summons for reckless
lrivirg by Patrolman Ashworth. He
said he had done everything possible to
eyaie the accident, but that the sudden
ssoFp2ge of traffic made it impossible
for him to avoid collision.
Boy of Six Killed
William F. De Young. six years old
Of l6 Van Buren Street. New Brighton
s. L. died in the Staten Island Hospital
aiter being struck by an automobile
driven b. John F. Campbell of 222 Be
meHt Avenue. West Brighton. Campbell
took the injured boy 10 the hospital
and vas detained during a police in
YeScigatl IN, but later released.
An automobile driven By Harry
Townsend, of Stapleton, 9. l.. ran dowr
and ii!led Bronislaw lgqbitski. Ave
years old. Of 80 Washington Street
yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Townsend
and her daughter who were in the cal
With Townsend, We're taken to the Old
Slip police station and later released
A crowd gathered outside the statior
-+--s
corted away by patrolmen.
StanIls Kawpiniski, FIVE years old, o.
1871 Greenpoint Avenue. Long fslant
City, was struck and killed last night
by an automobile owned and operated
by Charles Kanize, f65 India Street
Brooklyn. The boy was crossing til
street a. The time The police founo
kanize had no operators license, ant
he was held pending an investigation.