New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-03
Man Killed,
Wife Injured,
AS Auto Upsets
S'epson Escapes with Minor
Hurts When Auto Over
turns After striking Curve
on Surface Car Tracks
Woman Is Near Death
Taxi Taking Girl to Hos.
pital After Accident
Is Smashed by Another

With crash that was heard several
blocks, an automob;ia driven by John
Carr. ffty-fve years old, q 237b E;ghth
Avenue, in which hia wife, Elizabeth
and his stepscn, John Trainer, we're
riding, overturned last night st Ire
mont and Appleton avenue, the Bronx
plnning the three beneath it.
Carr was instantly killed. His wife
suffered a fracture OF the skull! and
was taken to Fordhnm Hospital, where
surgeon said her condition was serious
Trainor received minor injuries, en-;
after being attended by q physician
went home.
Carr, his wife and stepson, had spent
the day with Thomas Trainor, another
son, at Throggs Neck, the Bronx. They
we're returning to their home. Carr
was driving on the tracks Of the ire
mont Avenue surface lire ct motrer-
ate rate of speed, according to Patrol
man Frank Taylor. who was on his way
to the Alexander Avenue police station
The surface car tracks made a sharp
turn after crossing the bridge across
Westchester Creek. AS the automobile
made the turn the radius rod of the
autom obile snapped, causing the front
wheels to collapse, and the automobile
turned over.
Blowing his police whistle for assist.
ance, Taylor ran to the overturned car
and managed to eXtricate Tranor from
tho wreckage. Other Automobiles
hearing the police whistle, drove to the
scene. After several minutes effort
Carr and and his wife were taken from
beneath the machine.
Nine-.year- Rose Gravito was
knocked down by an automobile last
night in Third Avenue at l27th Street
Barnett Weiner, Of ATT Bedford Ave
nue., Brooklyn, owner and driver Of the
car, wrecked the vehicle against a pillar
of the elevated structure in an en-
deavor to avoid hitting her.
Patrolman Sullivan, of the East 126th
Street police station, hailed taxicab
which was passing with three men in
1t, climbed IN with the girl in his
arms and ordered the driver to speed
for Harlem Hospital The girls head
was cut.
Ten minutes later, as they went
through 127th Street to Lexington Ave
nue., northbound taxicab, driven by
Louis Deutsch, Of as East 112th Street
crashed into their taxi and upset it
The girl, firmly elapsed in the patrol
mans arms, escaped further injury, but
Sullivan and the three other passenge RS
were cut and bruised
Sullivan gave up trying to reach the
hospital in taxicab, crowded all his
charges into Deutsch s taxi and ordered
him to drive to the police station
There he placed Deutsch under arres,
and called an ambulance. DR.. Tame,
attended Sullivan and the three in.
iured passengers. Vincent Walsh, o.
381 West 141st Street; Thomas Mul
doom, Of 315 Alexander Avenue, the
Bronx, and William Murphy. of 81;
East 142d Street, the Bronx. Ros.
Gravito was taken to Harlem Hos pita
and will recover.
Andrew KAMA of 60 Van Colt Street
Maspeth Queens, suffered a fractur.
Of the right ankle and internal in
juries and John Sharkey, of 1872 Ut;cf
Avenue, Brooklyn, a fracture of the
skull yesterday, when an automobile il
which they were riding was struck by
another on Sumner Avenue, Brooklyn
They were taken to Bushwick Hospi
tai. Six other men suffered less seri
Gus injuries.
Charles Smith, Of 1865 Prospect
Place, Brooklyn, driver of the cal
which crashed into that in which
KAMA and Sharkey were riding, was
held for examination in Gates Avenue
police court on a charge of assault
Four men who were in his car were
held on charges of disorderly conduct