New-York tribune., 1922-09-11
Three Killed, 8
Hurt, as Truck
Goes Into Ditch
Party Returning From Clam
bake Crushed Under am
Overturned Car When
They Speed Around Turn
Five Injured at Clifton
Auto Is Hit by Erie Train
ON Crossing; Two Occu-
pants Expected to Die
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

SpoStus DloDutCH 10 INC IftoHn6
STAMFORD, Conn, Sept. 10.-Three
men were killed near here tonight
when truck in which they were rid
ing crashed INTO telegraph pole,
burying them in ditch beneath the
overturned car. Eight other men were
injured.
The men were returning from a
clambake in Longridge, suburb of
Stamford, in a light true. which was
going at high speed. At the foot of
a hill, near Lockwood Corners, the
road makes sharp turn. Frederick
Nee, driver of the truck, was un-
familiar with the turn and the car
shot straight ahead, broke telegraph
pole in two and overturned in ditch.
The three men who were killed are
believed to have been suffocated in
the mud, although their injuries
might have caused death. The others
were thrown out of the truck.
The dead are: Kenneth Grupe, a
clerk, of New Canaan; Albert Ruben,
a dairy salesman, of Stamford, and
Frederick Browne. butcher. of STAN
4oIu' ne injured are NEE, tne Chauf-
feur: Thomas and Charles Daley
Ralph With, Louis Powell, Allan Gus
tafson, William Maher and John Moore
Oliver, all of Stamford.
None Injured Mortally
The injured were treated at Stamford
Hospital. They are not expected %
die. Nee, who was only slightly bruised
and cut, is being held pending the cor
oner's inquest.
Five persons were injured, two Of
them so seriously that they probably
will die, when an Erie Railroad train
crashed into an automobile at Van
Houten Avenue Crossing at Clifton. N,
j.. yesterday. The injured, who were
taken to the Passaic General Hospital,
Were:
Charles Denmert, of s Glen Road,
Rutherford, N. j., concussion of the
brain, both legs broken and internal
injuries. Probably will die.
Marie, his wife, internal injuries,
broken ribs and possible fracture of
the skull. Probably will die
William, their twelve-year- son,
cuts on face and body.
Street, Brooklyn, left eye torn out, left
arm broken and internal injuries
Emma, his wife, cuts about head and
scalp wounds.
Car Thrown 125 Feet
Mrs. Denmert was at the wheel, and
the alarm bell was ringing when the
car approached the tracks, according
to witnesses. The machine did not
slow down, and was struck by train
bound for Paterson. The automobile
1Jot fhrnwY 125 feet
While riding north in a taxicab on
Fifth Avenue early yesterday Mr.. and
Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, of 15 East
Sixty-sixth Street. were injured when
the cab collided with another automo-
bile at Fifty-fifth Street. Two of four
men riding in the touring car, which
was going in the other direction, were
also injured. They were Michael Ro-
gan, twenty-five years old, of POI Kent
Avenue, Brooklyn, and Harry Thomp-
son, twenty-seven, of Ola Lorimer
Street, Brooklyn. All were treated at
Roosevelt Hospital and sent home. Mr..
Fahnestock is banker of 2 Wall
Street.
Eleanor Popaczewaki, five years old,
of 348 Henderson Street, Jersey City,
died in the Jersey City Hospital yes
terday from injuries received Friday
night when she was struck by an auto
mobile driven by Thomas Solilaro. of
s36 Johnston Avenue. Jersey City.
Solilaro is under arrest charged with
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