New-York tribune., 1922-04-17
Couple Returning From
Asbury Park Easter Pa.
rade Struck by Excur-
sion Express at Crossing
Engine Hits Truck
Near West Nyack
Girls Die Under Cars On
Drive and I'd Avenue;
Five Seriously Injured


sccidents. One took place at Interlaken
Crossing, y. j., New York and Long
Branch excursion train hitting an auto
robile and killing Lynn b. Moore, Of
Nashville, Tenn, and Eileen Griffen,
of Shrewsbury, n. j., a nurse in the
long Rfanch Hospital, aud in1icting
probably fatal injuries on the other
tao occupants of the car.
The other accident was at the West
yyacs crossing of the West Shore Rail-
rosd Charles Moler, Of West Forty
sfh Street, driver of A small motor
truck and Joseph Cavanagh, of Forty
18th Street and Ninth Avenue, were
Killed sno three other men seriously iu-
Jgred
The five men, according to informa-
Ter obtained by the Coroner, were out
Tor ride IN the truck. The engineer
.. The train, q passenger train bound
.or NeehsVken, which does not stop al
Vest Nysck, saw the lights of the
tguck when nc WAS mile from the
eycssn: and blow his whistle.
Raced for Crossing
There is an automatic gong, but no
fagmsn, at the crossing. Witnesses
ssid the gong rang. Nevertheless, the
actor truck according to the engineer.
sped for the crossing with undiminished
peed The train was under too great
Roadway to be checked in time to avoid
The accident and the vehicle with the
bodies cf the two men who were killed
IN it was carried for several hundred
fest on the pilot.
The injured were taken to Nyack
hospital They are Henry Nlando, Of
a West F'lf{y-sixtb Street; Charles
arey, Of 30 West Forty-sixth Street,
md Domlnick Scomen, of no Tenth
Avenue
Those injured in the accident at In
terlaken Crossing are Elizabeth Griffen,
stet Of the Young woman who was
He'd and Clyde Mitchell, nineteen
wears old, Of Eatnntown, n. j., owner
and driver Of the car They are in
Asbury Park Hospital. The young
7roaaan is injured internally and may
have fracture of the skull. Mitchell
rs injured Internally.
Returning From Easter Parade
The party had spent the day in
Asbury Park, where they participated
N the Easter parade on the Boardwalk.
Mitchell has lived in Eatontown several
months. Fl recently met the Griffen
sisters al Long Branch. Moore also
was Of recent acquaintance. They met
for the first time in Washington, and
Moore was visiting Mitchell.
When the party reached lnterlaken
crossing & bell warned them that a
train was soon TO pass. Mitchell
Al. IT,
local train passed. Mitchell started
the machine. He was half way across
the tracks when the excursion train,
The approach of which had been hidden
by the passing Of the local, struck the
car.
The automobile was hurled twenty
i've feet against telegraph pole. Miss
Eileen Griffeu and Moore were dead
when picked up. Mitchell and Miss
Elizabeth Griffen were unconscious and
told a few details of the incidents
!, leading up to the accident.
Says Bell Was Ringing
The engineer of the excursion train
said that his train was going but
twenty-five miles an hour when it
reached the crossing. be insisted he
had sounded his whistle and that the
he'll was ringing.
fessio Tausky, five years old. OF
1891 Avenue a, was struck and killed
by an automobile on Riverside Drive
eear 1Slst Street. The girl was with
her parents who we're walking on the
6rive. The mother tainted when Tes-
rle was struck. The girl was taken to
Columbus Hospital, where she was
Pronounced dead.
RoSin3 Anastofio Of 2Ab1 Second
Avenue, was crossing the street a
block from her home when she was
'truck by a car driven by Charles II.
Neiison, Of . Winfield Avenue. Jersey
pity. The child suffered fracture
et the skull. She was placed iu the
nelson ear and rushed to Harlem Hos
Ntal. She vas pronounced dead on
arrival,
Two Soldiers Injured
James c. Cornell, thirty-tive years
olo, lawyer of Manhattan, ran down
we eodiers on motorcycle on the
south Country Road near Babylon, l.
~ yesterday afternoon. He was placed
Under arrest charged with driving an
automobile while intoxicated and held
by Justice Cooper for examination
next Saturday.
The men injured are Calvin Harrcll.
gwenty-four years old. and William
zones, twenty-five, both of Mitchell
,'ed. They were taken to South Side
hospital where it was said last night
Slsy would recover. The police say
SofhetI had TWO companions with him
tne automobile which struck the
soIalers. He lives at So East Eighty
second Street.