New-York tribune., 1922-09-04
f our killed,()nle
Injured When
Auto Hits ole
Sriver rs Said TO Have Lost
C,ossssoI of Car With New
Workers, Going ali High
Speed, In Sullivan Co.
/ Dead, 8 Hurt In Jersey
Machine Turns 'rartle; Ex-
plodilag Tire Kills Cyclist
Who Had Aided Officer
Special Dsapasch 10 7hs Trsbuns


MlDDLEToWM, n. r.. Sept. 8. -Four
New York men were killed and one
severely injured late last right when
an automobile travelling at high speed
crashed into telegraph pole near
Bridgeville, Sullivan County.
The dead are Martin Berger, $50
East Eighth Street; Philip Minchcn-
berg, 81 Avenue d; John Bayies, 1926
Clinton Avenue, and q man believed to
be A. Sinrns, but whose identity has
not been definitely established Abra-
ham Bayles, brother Of John, is in a
critical condition in a local hospital,
but is expected to recover. He was at
the wheel OF the car.
The men were on their way to White
Lake, Sullivan County, to spend Sun
day and Labor Day Two other auto
mobiles, bearing members of the same
party, had gone on ahead and news of
the tragedy did not reach them until
to-day.
Car Demolished by Impact
It is said that the automobile was
going at top speed without lights when
Bayles lost control of the wheel. The
car sweryed from the state highway
and was demolished by the force of Its
collision with the pole A few minutes
later two Middletown men, Ralph Cod
dington and Alex King, came along.
They found the man believed to be
Sinan1s dead and the others, except
Abraham Bayles, dying. John Bayles
died on the way to Middletown and the
other two euccumbed shortly after
reaching the hospital.
The Bayles brothers were partners
in printing business at 10S Fulton
Street, New York. All of the men are
said to have been members of the Cler-
mont Club, of Brooklyn. A eoroner's
inquest will be held to-day
One man was killed, woman and
two men were injured, when an auto
mobile driven by Andrew Daniels, of
234 Wilkinson Avenue, Jersey City,
turned turtle after skidding seventy
tlve feet on Hudson Boulevard near
Hill Street, West Hoboken, yesterday.
The four occupants of the car were
pinned beneath the machine for ten
minutes before aid came. George Muir
Avenue, Jersey City, died of frac-
tured skull In an ambulance that was
rushing him to the North Hudson Hos
p;tal, in Weehawken. Daniels and his
wife both suffered fractured shoulders
and possible internal injuries. Paul
Sitos, Mrs. Danieiss brother, escaped
with few minor decorations and
bruises.
Auto Skidded and Turned Over
Just as Daniels was passing ELL
Street car driven by Joseph Paga-
nessi, OF Weodcliff e.on- Hudson, start
ed out of garage. Paganessi's ma
chine scraped the side of the other car
and Daniels jammed on the brakes. His
heavy automobile, which was going at
high speed, skidded and then turned
suddenly over.
Faganessi was unable to remove any
of the injured party until other mo-
tcrists came by few moments later
He was arrested on technical charge
OF manslaughter.
Michael Petutis, twenty-four years
old, of 152 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers
was thrown from his motorcycle and
killed yesterday in Mount Hope Viii
lage, Westchester County. The tire
burst on the machine he was riding
A few minutes before he had dismount-
ed to aid Patrolman Philip Sheridan, OF
Yonkers, who had been knocked from
his motorcycle when machine he was
pursuing on the Saw Mill River Road
swerved into him and bowled him over