Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-05
killed, e HURT
/ N AUTO ACCIDENTS.
a.ven phiIadeIphians Lose Lives
IN Four Days in Traffic
Tragedies
4 INJURED NEAR TRENTON

r.o-oe p. Kroucker,. frecholdecr and
',,,oor Of Camden, and Lehman
n. p assurance man and former Phil
,, nvV'' ri,cber. of Collingswood. were
~. ,,,r injured last night at Blackbird,
-" , an tbeir. way home from week.
ls' ssbinp trip at Bowers Beach.
~ rour other prominent Camden busi.
. ,., we're injured. The accident
s lsSS caused by an attempt to swsrve
W - the path of a speeding machine
~. os;r, M in the opposite direction. =,
eonI,ntd aI,nctdents over the Weekend caused
A.: ;niury of more than score OF
III s.bsr me persons living in Philadelphia
anq Ths y, Camden party Of six left Sat-
--i.r for Bowers Beach in. q car
uraasd usrnsd and driven by Martin McNulty.
0S Uhn hos n hardware store at 3l1
vsiobn avenue. With him were MIR.
Hroeckcr, hotel keeper. of Front street
r.or Koiphn avenue; Mr.. Ross, who
,rod on Narbcrth terrace, Collings-
n"od. Samuel Richelson. m, who
vans vans dry goods and clothing store
va !. ak Knighn avenue. and Charles
Purcell, restaurant keeper II, loo
KnIrhn avenue. Mr.. Kroecker leaves
az children: Mr.. Ross widow and
seren % children. McNulty. Mcclure ana
Ross we're brothers -in-law.
Auto Hits Abutment. Overtuns
According to the survivors. they had
tust gone through heavy rninstorm,
and we're running on slippery con-
crete highway. They saw the tights
a another car. "hogging the road. nc-
sorline to Mr.. Mcguire, and Mr.. Nc
Snlty swung his machine to the right.
Il lcft the concrete road. striking The
Gravel binder. and swerving violently
into the abutment Of small bridge.
Tho Tho car turned over and fell down IN
,mbankment, pinning the victims un-
Other motorists lifted the machine
and took the victims to the office OF
nr' !. ID. Miles. Mt Townsend. Del.
He called IN several other physicians.
and after the men had been given first
sid sent them on in other machines to
the delaware Hospital, at Wilmington.
thirty miles away.
Ross died in McGuire's arms on the
rod. Kroeckcr died of broken back
n II o'clock last night in the hospi-
nl. The others were treated Mt the
kosnital and sent home. McNulty and
Nicholson are in bed ut home. suffering
from shock, but are expected to re-
cover.
Three Hurt Near Trenton
Three Philadclphians were injured.
one probably fatally, last night, when
I coupe in which they were riding
struck concrete culvert along the
Lincoln Highway, a short distance be-
yond Oxford Valley. and turned over.
The injured are: NJ RS. Daisy Sea-
bridge, forty.twO years old, 212S Arch
street, fractured nose and cuts Of the
head, eye and forehead; Miss Eliza
beth Seabridge. seventeen years old,
2l2S Arch street. her daughter. cuts
and bruises, and probable fracture Of
the skull, and Paul Pcrmini, twenty
four years old. 712 Mcclellan street,
cuts Of the left knee md right hand.
Permini, the driver Of the car, left
Philadelphia with Mrs. Seabridge and
her daughter to 60 TO Trenton. lie
was travelling at fairly good speed
when the machine skidded and crashed
INTO tho culvert Miss Seabridge was
thrown c,eor tbror,h tho windsbield nnd
landed in the roni Her mother was
caught in tho wreckape.
The injured were taken to st. Fran
els Hospital. Trenton,
Arthur Grassa. fifty years old, 4943
Chester avenue, was struck by n taxi
cnb ot Fiftpentb and Chestnut streets
shortly after I 30 O'Clock this morning
Edward Cu!lihan, driver of the taxi,
took Grassa to the Pennsylvania Hos
pital, where he was treated for cuts
and bruises of the right arm and side.
He was later permitted to go home.
Cullihan was arrested, but Magis-
trate Rooney released him.