Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-12
'CARS OvERTURN
|NWQQDBR|nGE:
AND THIS CITY
Several Are Taken to HoSp!ssl
for Treatment - Injuries
Not Fatal, is Report
CARS BADLY DAMAGED
Woman Not Killed, as One Re-
port Said-Four Injured
in Carteret Accident
CARS BADLY DAMAGED

total of fifteen persons were IN
jllred in accidents here and nearby
places over the weekend. SIX men
and two women received serious IN
luries when two machines collided
on Amboy avenue in woodbridge
yesterday morning, miraculously
escaping death. A man, wife and
three year old child figured in an ac-
.ident here when their machine col
ided with another and overturned.
1 Carteret woman and her baby
we're saved from serious injuries
when the car in which they were
-iding was hit by a fast line trolley
IT the Carteret crossing.
WOODBRIDGE, Nov. 12.-Eight
persons were hurled to the ground
. when the automobile driven by Hy-
hman Bender, of Perth Amboy, col
lided with a machine operated by
Mrs. Martha Horning, of Elizabeth,
and going south on Amboy roao
shortly after IL o'clock, here yes
terday morning. In the Hornlns
machine were the drivers two cnlt-
dren and Charles Fullager. Bender
had four companions in his automo-
lille The force of the Bender car
which is said to have gone at hlgn
sneed caused the Horning car to
orerturn. The commotion which re-
eulted after the accident broughl
ont rumors that a person was killed.
This was refuted, however, when the
occupants of both machines were
+olxen to the Perth Amboy City HOS
nital where they were given medlcai
attaption. Mrs Horning and MT.
Render. the drivers of the two ma
nhines. suffered the most serious IN
iuries. The police here investigating
he accident could not learn the true
cause of the smash-up'
The persons injured and the ex-
tent of their injuries as reported py
he police and hospital attacnes:
Mrs. Martina Horning. wife OF L. T..
4, Horning, druggist, of n South
sroad street, Elizabeth. surlerlhs
from shock. 1y,;ro
same address, injuries unaccounleu
Violet Horning daughter OF Mrs;
Horning, slightly injured, returned
to her home. x,oars
old baker of 3S4 Barracks street:
pert1, Amboy, possible fracture OF
ribs abrasions of left lag, laceratlons
on left hand and head.
isaac Wingler, 26 Smith street,
perth Amboy, lacerations on rlght
Henry Ellis, thirty-six years old
of asa Barracks street, Perth Am
boy, slightly injured.
Samuel Ernst, 452 Park avenue
Perth Amboy slight injuries.
Charles Fu1lager of "a Katherine
D s+reet elizabeth, sprained thumb on
Jeff hand. brusies on right shoulder
William Irving, of Belmar, his
wife. Elsie, and three year old chlid,
Kenneth, are in the local hospltai
suffering from injuries received In
this city Yesterday afternoon when
their car was overturned. lrVlhg
has a fractured left collarbone, and
his wife, bad bruise on the left slde
Of her forehead and her left elbow
The child escaped with scraped
forehead. s.,
THE report of Motorcycle Officer
paul T,syden who investigated the
accident. is to the effect that Irving
was driving his Ford delivery be-
hind a. bus and Pierpont butcher, of
NTontclair. endeavored to pass with
his Ford sedan. At the same time
Irving started to pull out from pc
hind the bus ana the WneeiS VI tAo
two Fords locked causing the irving
machine to turn over. Officer Lay
den had the injured persons taken 10
the hospital where DR.. G. w. Tyreii
attended them, and they are SUN
confined. The car was taken TO tne
National garage.
There were a number of other
minor accidents investigated by the
local authorities over the weekend,
officer Arthur Peterson issuing q
summons =. s~Vo drivers who were in
an accident at jefferson and Maple
streets early Sunday morning and
Iesired to prefer reckless driving
harges against one another. Con-
,iderabe damage was done to We
,icles in these accidents, the police
cport