The New York herald., 1922-04-17
Two Lose Lives as Truck Is
Hit Trying to Pass
Ahead of Train.
TWO YOUNG GIRLS KILLED
Soldiers Run Down and Law
yer Is Arrested for Driv-
ing When intoxicated.

Perfect weather for Easter driving
filed the roads with automobile traffic
yesterday. Six deaths resulted from
motor mishaps.
At Interlake. crossing, on the out
skirts of Asbury Park. a Philadelphia
Long Branch express train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad crashed into a
touring car in which four young per-
sons were riding. The train was run
ming at thirty-five miles an hour and
tie automobile. struck full in the CEN
ter, vas lifted from ths track and its
occupants scattered. The automobile
hit telegraph pole several yards away
with such force that it nearly buckled
around the pole.
Ailcen Griffin. 10. nurse at the Long
Branch Hospital. and Lynn e. Moore.
81, OF ell Eighth avenue, Nashville.
Tenn, were killed; Elizabeth Griffin, 20,
sister of the young woman. was SO Sc
riously injured that physicians at the
Long Branch Hospital think she with
die. Clyde Mitchell. 10, owner Of the
automobile, was only slightly injured.
No Flagman at. Crossing.
Mitchclls car, small sedan. was at
the head OF long line Of motors that
had been held up at the crossing by
northbound passenger train. There was
no fiagman at the crossing, and as the
last coach OF the train had cleared 1t
Mitchell set his motor In motion and
started to drive across the tracks. a
light at the crossing was showing rcd
and the automatic signal bells were
ringing. but Mitchell thought they had
been set off by the other train As his
car was half way across the southbound
track the express train plunged into It.
The iifcless body OF Miss Griffin was
picked up about 900 feet from the track
and Moore's body was hurled 150 feet
The express train was stopped after
the accident L. w. Stultz OF Long
Branch. the engineer, told the authorf-
ties that he had blown the whistle for
the crossing, but the sound OF Il prob
ably was drowned In the rumble of the
other train. Stuitz was not arrested.
NJ j., and Mitchell lives at Eatontown.
Moore went to Eatontown Saturday TO
visit Mitchell. The party were return
ing to their homes after spending the
day at Asbury Park
Death Race with Train.
Two men wcre killed and three badly
injured at o'clock last night when the
light motor truck in which they were
riding was struck at the West Nyack
crossing OF the West Shore Railroad BIZ
a passenger train coming from Albany
TO Weehawken. The engineer said lie
saw the men a mile away and blew his
whistle several times, but they appar-
emily believed that with a burst of spec
they could beat the train across the
track. The truck was thrown 100 feet.
q The dead are Joseph Cavanagh, 26,
who lived at Ninth avenue and West
Forty-fifth street. and Charles Moler.
who lived in West F'orty-fifth street.
near Ninth avenue. rhe injured are
Charles Surrey. 5f0 West Forty-sixth
street Henry Biando OF 404 West Fifty
sixth street and Dominlck Scomen ri
1880 Tenth avenue. The injured were
taken to Nyack Hospital. where II was
said last night they would recover.
An automobile driven by James &.
Cornell, 4 lawyer of 56 East Elghty-scc-
ond street. collided simultaneously with
two motorcycles on the South country
road between Babylon and Bay Shore.
Long Island. yesterday afternoon and
caused injury TO two eoldiers from
Mitchell Field Mincoa. Corporal Alvin
Harrell. "a. suffered a fracture of the
left leg and decorations. Chief Mechanic
William Jones. 25. was cut about the
thighs Both werp taken to the South
side Hospital at Babylon. After the
collision Cornell's automobile crashed
against tree at the side Of the road
nd he received slight injuries. Sheriff
Biggs arrested him on a charge OF driv-
ing an automobile while intoxicated and
he was held In 5000 bail for hearing
Saturday.
Tessie Tausky. .. or 1887 Avenue A,
when crossing Riverside Drive at 1Sfst
street last night was killed bv an auto
mobile driven by Caroline M. Schlaich
OF 2ii Jackson street. Brooklyn. The
driver was not arrested.
Rosina Anastaf. 10. or 245i Second
avenue. was crossing that avenue at 26th
street yesterday afternoon when an au-
tomobile ran over her. Charles H. Nell
son OF 70 Winfield avenue, Jersey City,
the driver. took the little girl TO Harlem
Hospital but she was dead when he
reached there. fic was arrested on a
charge Of homicide.