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The New York Times
November 28, 1922
Real Arrival of Winter Here Brings Many Accidents in its Train.
BROOKLYN WOMAN KILLED
Trolley Car Jumps the Rails in Bronx and Scatters Crowd—Snow Removal Force Mobilized.
Winter is really here. The first snow of the season, other than a slight flurry, fell later yesterday. It did not appear to be much of a snow, for the streets were so warm that it soon turned to water or slush. More fell, however, than most folks thought, for at 8 o'clock last night the Weather Bureau recorded six-tenths of an inch, a record for this time of the year since 1912.
When the first snow fell the Snow Removal Bureau sent out orders for the men to be mobilized should the fall show signs of clogging the streets. Preparation was also made to get all apparatus in working order. The first call was for 1,200 snow removers to stand by in Manhattan.
The coming of the snow brought many minor and several fatal accidents in its train.
Anna Berner, 43, of 172 Himrod Street, Brooklyn, was struck last night by a commercial automobile while crossing Myrtle Avenue near her home during the storm and instantly killed. The truck, owned by the Dulbert Brothers of 33 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn, was driven by Louis Frisch of 30 Cypress Hills Road, Queens. Frisch was not arrested.
Frank Barris, 14 years old, of 199 Orient Avenue, Jersey City, died late last night in City Hospital, Jersey City, from injuries he received when struck by an automobile driven by George Van Pelt of 539 Bramhall Avenue at Bergen and Bramhall Avenues. The lad was crossing the street about 8 o'clock when the motor car skidded, due to the snow, and knocked him down.
The snow caused a peculiar accident to Miss Jean Dane, 21 years old, a vaudeville actress, of 114 West Forty-seventh Street, who was taken to Roosevelt Hospital suffering from a fracture of the left shoulder and left collarbone last night. Miss Dane was crossing Broadway from east to west at Forty-seventh Street when a southbound Broadway car skidded on the slippery rails and struck an automobile, which collided with a taxicab. The taxicab struck Miss Dane and threw her in front of another automobile which was stopped before it could injure her. Patrolman Patrick Foy placed the girl in the taxicab and took her to the hospital.
Mrs. Bertha Farkas, 28 years old, of 330 East Ninety-first Street, received several fractured ribs when she was struck by an auto truck driven by Carl Sommerfeld of 736 Communipaw Avenue, Jersey City, at Madison Avenue and Ninety-eighth Street. She was taken to the Harlem Hospital by Patrolman Hoffman of the East 104th Street Station, who reported that the accident was unavoidable, as the woman, blinded by the falling snow, stepped in front of the machine.
Jacob Ely of 755 Dawson Street, the Bronx, sought the shelter of the elevated structure when he got off at the 174th Street station on his way home. When he stepped from behind a pillar he was struck by a taxicab. He was taken to Fordham Hospital suffering from internal injuries.
The police of the East 104th Street Station are seeking the driver of an auto truck which collided with a Madison Avenue car at Ninety-eighth Street last night. The driver ran off after the accident, deserting the vehicle, which the police said belonged to the Gorham Company of Fifth Avenue. The passengers in the car were shaken up. Miss Molly Saepethay of 70 East 115th Street suffered from bruises and shock. John McInnis of 135 East Seventy-eighth Street was cut on the left hand and arms by glass. Both were attended by Dr. Bernstein of Flower Hospital.
Charles Olsen of 768 Fox Street, the Bronx, fractured ribs and internal injury when the Tremont Avenue car of which he was the motorman crashed into the rear of an auto truck of the Meal Package Corporation at Tremont and Mapes Avenues. The front platform of the car was smashed and Olsen was caught in the wreckage. The passengers were badly shaken.
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