New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press Broolzlyn Buzldmg Burns Walls Collapse Burying Many Firemen in Ruins Two Are Dead, 47 Ser- iously Injured, Six More May Die — Search Of Debris Not Yet Complete. 01d Building With Interest- ing History, Razed by Flames at Four Alarm Fire Early This Morning. By The Assoclated Press. New York, Aug. 21.—Two dead and 47 seriously injured, six fatally, per- haps, was the unofficial police report of casualties after a thorough search today of the smouldering ruins of¢« a three-story brick dance hall and store building in Brooklyn which collapsed last night during a fire burying a score of firemen and spectators amid flaming debris. According to this list two firemen— Raymond Farrell and James Sullivan, both members of the same engine company—were killed and 47 men, most of them fire fighters, were seri- ously injured, six perhaps fatally. The search of the ruins, however, has not been completed, for the fire was still smouldering, with fitful bursts of flame, The hall, a landmark of Wiiliams- burg for half a century, had been the scene of many political battles and at one time had been a Masonic bhall. Lately it had been used for dances and meeting house. The fire, of unknown origin, was in a 60 year old building that former- ly housed a Masonic temple. cent years it has housed two stores on its ground floor while the second | and third stories were given over to| dance halls. Firven found born blaze, and, the building w in the heart of a close-packed tene. ment district three additional alarms were rung in. Working under the glare of half dozen still erected arc lights th: fire fighters apparently had the under control at 2 o'clock. curious crowd had begun fo disperse, A score of linesmen were on the low er floor with hoses, 8ix hook and lad der men were by way of the fire escapes, men were on the roof, chopping at a jout to violators of cornice. ‘Wall Crashes, Without warning a 5 of wall crashed in. A girder, recently installed as an ad- titional roof support, fell with the erumbling wall, and carried its bur- den with it. The wall crushed most of the linesmen on the ground floor under tons of debris. Those on the fire escapes were carried with the wall into the burning pit. Six of the men on the roof were catapulted into the very heart of the building. The sev- enth clung to a wooden heam which he had straddled; in its fall it twist- ed its living freight into space, clear of the wreckage. He was rescued only slightly hurt. The crash sent its call for blocks around and startled thousands of men, women and children who flowed from the close-packed tenements to crowd about the tragic spot and add to the confusion. The women—most of them of Latin extraction, for the quarter has many foreign residents— capped their horror with hysteria and their eries rose above the shouts and groans of the injured. Another Alarm, A fifth alarm brought additional firemen as rescue workers; telephone calls summoned police reserves. The firemen tore at the hot bricks to get to their comrades. News of the tragedy apaprently was carried on the winds for within a few minutes vehicles of all kinds, wagons, limousines, commercial cars and taxi- cabs, crowded about. The police lined up the taxicabs for possible emerg- ency use. Thirty ambulances from nearby hospitals also were summoned. The rescuers worked, at first, under the glare of the flames which flared up anew with the crash. They con- tinued their task under the light of several arcs hastily installed by their comrades. It was slow work. The debris was hot, and great clouds of smoke and steam arose as tons of water were poured on to cool the pile and facilitate rescues. 'he first body removed was that of a fireman, killed by bricks. Then five injured were removed. From then on the victims were extricated one at a time. It was daylight before the wall's wreckage had been cleared from the street and the dead and injured removed. Then the rescuers concentrated their efforts on clearing a way to the fateful central heap of debris, be- neath which they believe their com- rades to lie. This entails a tremen- dous task as the remaining walls, now tottering, must be shored up and the hot wreckage, more than four feet in depth at this point, must be cooled before the final burrowing can begin. Two Killed When Train Hits Coupe on Crossing Dunkirk, N. Y., Aug. 21.—Two per- #ons were killed and two seriously in- Jured when a fast Pennsylvania rail- road train crashed into a light coupe ction steel ' | heavy advance over the | Of re- | | so as to enable the government to re- | quisition a certain percentage for the | prop under the tumbling mark and | threatened with closure ! o GERMANY PREPARING TOREQUISITION CASH Will Make Organizations State Amount of Foreign ' Money They Have By The Assoclated Press. Berlin, Aug. 21.—Germany's indus- trialists, commercial organizations and banks will be immediately called up-| on to state under oath the amount of foreign currencies in their possession | purpose of creating a national de- fense fund. With this money the government will endeavor to put a establish a fund for food purchases abroad. This emergency program was agreed upon at an extraordinary ses- sion of the cabinet which lasted all last nigh® President Ibert, Chan- cellor Stresemann and the entire min- istry are convinced that nothing short of dictatorial measures will save the internal situation which is now fast careening not only because of the mark’s collapse but chiefly because of the chaos prevailing in all lines as a result of the introduction of ‘gold mark” wages and prices, completely upsetting the conditions of produc- tion and retailing. With German coal selling at a prevailing prices for the English product many of the smaller industrial plants are as the de- preciated mark also bars them from replenishing their stock terlals or purchasing Many plants arec already glish coal operating | [IALLEIJ iy 10 .,W""" Father Confesses to Execnting Objectionable Son-in-Law BEFORE EYES OF OTHERS —_— Minters Take Trouton “For a Walk," Into Woods Where Elder Man Shot Him Five Times Newman, Ga., Aug. of their brother-in-law was revealed to the po- lice here by John W. Minter, who confessed, the police said, that he shot Millard Trouton near here a fortnight | ago and then threw his body into a shallow creek. Minter, head of a large family of boys and girls and having four sons- in-iaw, told that to avenge alleged mistreat- ment of his daughter, the wife of l'lrouton, and prevent him from mak- ing further overtures to get her to come back to live with him, he de- cided to “get rid of him.” Minter is quoted by the police in his confession. He was re- ferring, they said, to a whipping which Trouton gave his wife causing her to leave him and return to her parents. Mrs. Trouton told her father, brothers and brothers-in-law of other mistreatment. Sought Reconciliation Then came a note to her from Trou- | ton, Minter said, seeking a reconcilia- tion. The father called his sons and | sons-in-law into council and it was | then decided, that to prevent any chance of Mrs. Trouton leaving the | Minter home again to live with her husband, they would kidnap him and | get him out of the way. The father took all the blame for the Kkilling, the police said. His sons, John, Jeff, Benjumin and Grady, and | his sons-in-law, I.. 1. Goodrum, B. I. Weldon and Claud Washington, and forget it,” | with half shifts and the situation is drifting to a point where unemploy- ment on a large scale seems inevit- able. a stub- | firo | taking hoses roof-ward | Seven | | RECORD PENALTIES ON LIQUOR CHARGED » Heavy Fines and Jail Sen- ||u»! The | tences Meted Out in Police Court ‘The heaviest penalties yet meted he liquor law in wore Judge three him New Britain potice court nounced this morning . Hungerford arraigned Michael Jezarsky was fined 3300 and sentenced to four months in jail for his third offense, Theodore Makulas | was fined $150 and sentenced to 15 days in jall on his first offense ana the by when hefore pr \\vl\unl C men were Konstanti Wisolmonski was fined §150 | and costs and given a 30 day jail sen tence on two counts totalling §300 and G0 days in jail on his second offense. Jezersky and Makula were arrested on August 3 by Policeman Patrick O'Mara, Thomas Feeney and John (' Stadler at Jezersky's place of busine at 686 North Main slreef Policeman O'Mara testified that on that date, he visited the place with other officers and found Makula on guard at the door. When the officers arrived, he (Continued on leur|nr~nth Page) a friend, W. M. Keltman, are impli- |cated in the plot. Ben | being held, was not implicated in, the | confession. | The police announced early today | they would not give out in detail the | confession of Minter until later. They . |said other members of the family | have confessed and they still are (:\- pecting to learn more about thn shootimg. His Last Walk After having enlisted the Feltman to get Trouton to walk® the Minters: kidnapped taking him nearby woods. The police, are still what took place in the woods as re- lated to them by the elder Minter other than to say Minter admitted bhaving fired five shots into body. Trouton's hody in the shallow str aid f ‘take a was found am about nine miles below the place where the alleged killing took place. His arms and legs were tied, Examination of the body, |according to the police, revealed that |the skull had been crushed. SFARCH LIQUOR PIRATES Boston, Aug. 21.—The coast guard cutter Tampa left this port early to- day for Cape Ann fo search two men who yesterday hoarded the rum running Nova Scotia schooner J. Scott Hankenson off Rockport and wounded the captain and cook. A. S, AARONSON DEAD. New Haven, Aug. 21.-——Former Representative A. A. Aaronson of An- sonia, who was operated upon for ap pendicitis a week ago, died at Grace hospital during last night. Boy, Aged 7, Hurled to Death Over Brldge, Grandmother Loses Eye Child of Fmgerprml Expert Dies When Thrown From | Auto Forced Off Road by | Speeder. ‘ lobert Dolan, seven old son /| of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dolan of 667 Stanley * street is dead, Mrs. Mary Avery, age 55 years and grandmother of the boy, of 30 John street, is at the Charlotte Hungerford hospital in Torrington suffering the loss of an| eye, a broken nose and mrvrali(mn about the face and Miss Helen Avery, age 26 years, is suffering with a hrnk— en finger as the result of a tragic ac- | cident at Castle’s bridge on the Tor- | rington-Thomaston road last night at| about 11 o'clock. From what can be learned Martin | Snyder, 22 years old of 368 Arch| street, was driving the automobile in | which the above people and William Avery, were riding. The youth had taken two aunts of young Avery's to their homes in Torrington and were on their way back to New Britain when the accident occurred. It is said that Snyder w; driving between 10 and 15 mile an ‘hour when he appreached the sharp turn in the road which leads onto the nar- row bridge. Tt is claimed that anoth- er antomobile which was being driv- en fast, passed him on his right. This caused his machine to swerve into the bridge structyre throwing the Dolan boy out of the machine but not Mrs. vear at a crossing here early today. The dead: Herbert. Roloff, 21, donia; Miss Martha Rothoweki, Dunkirk. Fre- 17, Avery and her daughter. During the | excitement which followed, the Dolan | I (Continued on Thuuenth Page.) Bobbhie Dolan Victim Of Auto Accident s T WAIL TRAIN Kidnap Him in Auto, Carry Him | 21,—How six | members of a family were called upon | | to witness the execution one of whom was Trouton.‘ “It preyed on my mind; I could not | reeman, also | him, | in an automobile to a| withholding | Trouton's floating | for the | EflAST 10 COAST MAIL ONTHE WAY (Kive me Overpower Crew andfPilots Hop O From New York Get Away With 20 Packages | and San Francisco { 1MASKE[I BANI]ITS Fireman of Train Has Possible Yrac- | First Flights of Government Experi- Place—To Continue 30 ture, of Skull—Others Beaten Hm‘ ment Taken Not Seriously—Passengers Sleep| Until Saturday—Flapsed Time Unmolested Through Event. | By The Assoclated Press. Reno, Nev., Aug. 21.—Pilot Burt I‘L“ Oklahoma City, Okla, Aug. 21.—|\yingiow, carrying the first consign-| Five masked bandits looted the mu(llmcnt bl b et i and express cars of Missouri, Kansas coast, landed at the Reno air mail {and Texas passenger train No. 128|411 7:46 this morning and four | |near Olosa, Okla. eany today and|ininutes later Pilot Blanchfield hopped | [icschREARNE B abat S0 “5’1”‘”“‘ off on the second lap of the coursn| lis '1u,t and schedule time is I»elng main- | mate of the vafue of the loot \\aa\ tained at this end of the country. [EvaLEDigeaaly S0duy. Pilot Blanchell took off at 7:50, Pauiey difpoted by ORI T, “[ | twenty-five minutes ahead of sched- Osage county were scouring the coun-| . "“po"eriq o expected to reach | Klko in two hours and 20 minutes or |ty around Okesa in search of the bandits who fled in motor cars. = | [ "®It s belleved the band mumbered|!¢ss Elko is not a scheduled stop, | a dozen, although only five men act- and as it will require a [e?\' minutes to | i e R R change planes thero, no time was lost Towers, fireman of the train, was in | 4t the Reno landing field in order to |a Pawhuska hospital today with “wET«koc up for:the necdssary deliy at| | probable fracture of the skull from | ¢ a blow on the head with a heavy| | revolver. Engineer Hours, | P S I By The Associated Press. Hempstead, L. I, Aug. —With | | one mail plane winging its way from | n Francisco to New York, another | took off from Hazelhurst field on Long Island for the Pacific coast to-| | day, in the first of five days’ test in-| augurated by the government to dem- | onstrate the feasibility of permaneut) trans-continental air mail service. | The start was made at 11:01 eastern| Miller and Mail Clerks |C. D. Weiss and W. Burch were beaten by the bandits, but sus- tained no merious injuries. | The train was south-bound from | Kansas City to Oklahoma City. Pas- sengers were not molested and many | |of thém slept through the holdup, | which occurred one mile south of ‘(\kesu, in Osage county, which long pas been & haunt of & daring band | Stahdard time, unofficially clocked. of bank robbers captained by Al| Regardless of weather conditions | | Spencer. the most | plane notbmous lontiawil will hop off daily from ' New ‘o[ present day Oklahoma. In his re-| York and San I'rancisco from now By [Claims $7,142 for Services was ‘entered today by Isabel Mara against the New Britain Trust as executor of the estate of Pat- | rick 8. McMahon for $7,142 for serv- lices rendered und material supplied. | | Through Attorney Joseph G. Woods, | {an attachment for $10,000 was placed lon the estate of McManhon in the | hands of the trust company. | For personal services, the plaintiff | claims-more than $7,000, representing 201 weeks at $35 a week, running | from February 17, 1919, to December 18, 1922, ® FIREWORKS EXPLOSION | CONFERS WITH COOLIDGE KlLLS ONE’ ]NJURES Two‘ Wathington Atig 2l R D Cren mer of Texas, who had been under TR consideration by President Harding for ambassador to Mexico, had nearly an hour's conference today with President Coolidge. treat in the Osage hills Spencer has UNtil Saturday. —Pilot C. Eugene et ! 9 Johnson, will take flight from Hazel- [the train at Bartlesville, some 15| Ward flight of the test. . miles north of Okesa. They rode| Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Chey- pear until the train approached flm‘t"‘s'fl"“lml as Mopp,lnz points. The spot selocted for the robbery. The|Schedule calls for 30 hours el ‘lpse | coaches were cut loose from the re-|the two hours difference roprnscnt!ng mainder of the train and the bandits| the probable effect of prevailing west- i a quarter of a mile down the tracks, |ing will be made only between C: cago and Cheyenne. ’ i | “san Krancisco, Aug. 21-—Twenty-| v | Francisco and New York was inaugu- o n rated here when Burt H. Winslow, air| { Crissy field at 5:59 o’clock this morn- | 64 pounds of first class mail. Plana’ and”pitot willl be changed at| : There was one pouch of mail for| | ipplied | Reno and one pouch for vach of the| Lake City, Omaha, Chicago, Cleve-| land and New York. | | Mayor Rolph of San Francisco sent a letter to Mayor Hylan of New York. contributed a novel gift to the New| York executive in the form of a box The pilot carried numerous photo- | graphs and motion picture films of | this purpose he made a trial take-off landing before starting the mail | \ It is belleved that bandits boarded Murst field, L. L, on the first west- the blind baggage and did not ap-| °NN& Salt Lake City and Reno are cngine, tender and mail cars and two | flVing time westward and 28 eastwa | forced the engineer to proceed about | €rly, winds at this season. Night fly | eight hour mail service between bun\ mail serviee pilot, hopped oft from | ing in a De Haviland plane carrying| | Rendered and Material jnpml Noviiha nestiaton. ‘ |other ~stops—Cheyenne, Wyo.; Salt| (i00d weather favored the start. The mayor of Burlingame, Calif. of “butterfly” orchids. the plane as it got into action. For its speedy tins-continental jour- |and {on | ney | ney i | Aerial Bomb Goes Off Prematurely in Rochester Park—Autos Damaged | rhy Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 9,1 73 ) Aug, 18th .. Auto Bas With T ourists Plunges Over Cliff; Five . Americans Are Ktlled FLEE IN MOTOR CARS | WINSLOW (LANDS AT RENO SECRET Afi[NTS’ RAID | FINDS LIQUOR LABELS rested for Counterfeiting —Large Mailing List By The Aesociated Press New York, Aug. 21.—Federal secret ervice agents today raided the quar- ers of the “Consolidated Importing and Exporting Co., at 114 Lexington avenue, and arrested five men and a woman on charges of counterfeiting revenuc stamps, whiskey labels and sians’ liquor prescription blanks. The agents also found .and confis- | cated several stills, 100 gallons of al- cohol and a dozen cases of whiskey. Those arrested give the names of Dr. Adolph Lappner and his wife, ose; Joseph Serpico; Allen Snow; Herman FKriedlander and Joseph B. | Robinson. The raided building also housed the Montreal Bottiers Corp., and was headquarters for “The Iold,” a mat- rimonial paper. The six arrested were alleged to have flooded the country with circu- lars seeking patronage for their var- ied business ventures. The matrimonial paper, the agents allege, served as a blind for alleged |illicit dealing in liquor and counter- teiting stamps. An extensive mailing list was found, which bore evidences of large ship- | ments to many points in the United States and Canada. The quantities of stamps and labels shipped to Canada indicated that mugh of the supposed- ly high grade liquor that is smuggled |in from that country is nothing more than cheap bootleg liquor, 'FRENCH NOTE GIVEN T0 BRITISH IN PARIS Embassy Gets Poincare’s Reply to Reparations Comimunication By The Associated Press, Paris, Aug. 21.—The French gov- ernment’s reply to the recent note of Marquis Curzon, the British foreign secretary on reparations was handed to the British embassy at 9 o'clock this morning. The feeling in French official circles is that this note, indited by Premier Poincare, will prevent a rupture of the entente, There is no concealment of the fact that the reply is largely controversial, that Premier Poincare is unyielding on the outstanding features of the sit- vation and that it ig not expected Premier Baldwis wjll find the reply conclusive. It is considered almost certain, however, that he will regard it as en- couraging and will withhold any plans for separate action toward Germany until the points in dispute are further elucidated. There is said to be a tendency to look more favorably on a new republi- can conference among the allies and (Continued on Page Fifteen) But Occupants Are Unhurt | | Y., Aug. 21.—One/ another man and a ightly, and ?\\n Rochester, N | man was killed, | woman were injured automobiles were damaged by shrap-| | nel from'an aerial display bomb that | exploded prematurely in the hands of | Hm anln) of the company in charg: a local |- P B i e sonn FINGER-PRINTS AN A | IN HOLDING WOMAN | The dead man is reported as John | | Brosk Slightly injured are Mrs, | | | | Emlie Prola, 23, and Andrew J. Web- | erlacker, 2 Automobiles damaged were 200! | yards away and in each case the mis- sile came through the top. Motorists were unhurt. 15 Year Old Boy Get | Bulk of Durity Estate A 15 year old son of the late Mrs. Alice Mabelle Durity will reccive the ‘hulk of his parent’s estate by the [terms of a will filed this morning in probate court The boy, Arthur kK. Durity, lives in Berlin as does his sister, Helen W. Schroeder to whom a plano is bequeathed, and there are no |other bequests in the will. The will |was drawn May 12, 1922, in Newing- |ton. | ® Police Match Impressions of Mrs, i Kearney's Fingers With Marks On Rifled Box. Stamford, Aug. 21. — Fingerprint evidence had much to do with the holding for trial in the superior court of Mrs. Francis H. Kearney, wife of a | well known musician and member of a family of wide acquaintance today cn a charge of having stolen $2,200 trom William J. O’Connell, former in- | ternal revenue collector and real es- | tate dealer, who lives next door to the | Kearneys in Belltown road. | Mr. O’Connell said he had the money in a tin box and he missed. it from his desk in his living room. There were fingerprints on the box and the arrest of Mrs. Kearney was made after the police had matched impressions of her fingers with those {on the box. Previously the charge had been made by O’Conneil that Mrs. Kearney was one of three persons who had been in the living room within the period of time when the money was last known to be in the box and when it was missed on July 30. Capt. Mitchell Expected Home From Far East | T. W. Mitchell expects his son Cap- | tain Ralph W. Mitchell home from the |U. 8. army on furiough this afternoon. Captain Mitchell is in command of the | U. 8 flying forces on the Island of | Guam, 1 - HIGH TIDES | { August 22 (Standard Time) At New Haven— 7:48 a. m.; 8:12 p. m. At New London— 5:43 a. m.; 6:09 p. m. THE WEATHER S Hartford, Aug. 21.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Becoming unsettled with show- ers tonight. Wednesday show- ers and cooler, 11 i | [l‘v————-—-—————* 'Mayor Removes Crowe and DiNonno; Claims They Were Insubordinate Wriles Brief Letter Public Works Commis- sioners Telling Them ’l‘h@y Have Been Dismissed. to Chairman Thomas W. Crowe and Commissioner John Di Nonno were re- moved from the board of public works | this afternoon by Mayor A. M. Paon- essa, who in a letter to the two com- mi; oners explained that they were being retired for “insubordination™. While the letter did not state spe- cifically in what instance the retiring commissioners had committed this of- fense, the mayor made known yester- day that their stand in connection with the paving of Grove Hill was re- sponsible for his demand that they resign. Immediately upon receipt of letters advising ther@ of the mayor's desire that they quit the board, both commissioners sent back replies that they would not and that if their places were wanted it would be necessary for the mayor to remeove them. Soon after arriving at his office today Mayor Paonessa dictated a copies of which were sent to the com- missioners. The letter follows: “Dear Sir: “In accordance with power vested in me by the charter of the City of New Britain, I am removing you as a member of the board of public works. “The cause of your removal is (Continued on Page Fifteen Five Men and Woman Ar-| letter | (French Alps Scene Of Tragedy As Sight- seeing Party Meet With Spectacular Au- tomobile Accident Others of Twenty Passen- gers May Die—All Hurt But One—Machine Turns Complete Somersault. By The Associated Press, Nice, Aug. 21.—Five American tourists and one Frenchman were killed and 15 persons injured, some perhaps fatally when a sightseeing nggtor bus crashed through a parapet on the mountain road between Nice and Evian yesterday plunging over a 100 foot precipice into the river Var. Eighteen of the 22 passengers in the bus were Americans. The dead are: Rev. Hiram Grant Person and : Mrs. Person, of Newton, Mass.; Mrs. | Alexander Sondheimer, Mrs D, 8. ‘White, Washington, D. C.; Charles H,' Gray, and the French chauffeur,, Louis Vallerino. The only passenger unhurt was Mrs, Meta Mooney, also an American The accident occurred near the vils. lage of Guillaumes, about 49 miles’ from Nice. A Alexander Sondheimer, a native of St. louis, was in a critical condition teday. Another of those hurt was Mrs. W. W. Spaid of Washington, D. C. The Injured The list of injured is as follows: Alexander Sondheimer, left arm fractured in two places; Isaac Stray- " horn, compound fracture of the left arm, wounds in the head; Mrs. Isaac Strayhorn, left arm broken, internal injuries, left ankle broken, condition erious; Carltron G. Person, lower nd upper jaws broken; Robert T, | Person, slight wounds in the head Russell B, Miller, fractured left knee, ounds in the head. Mrs. W. A. Hecker, jaw broken, internal injuries, condition serious; Miss W. H. Beaumont, deep wound in the right leg, left arm broken in two places; W. R. Coffey, woynds in the chest, serious wound in forehead; Mrs. W. R. Coffey, superficial wounds, no hones broken; Mrs. W, 8. Spaid of Washington, D. C., left collar bonse broken; ¥. W. Rugg, official protog- rapher of the Temple tours, internal injuries. Rene Moreau, of Brussels, and Jean Haul of Nice were slightly hurt. Make Room for Frenchman The party of American tourists led by Prof. Russell B. Miller, of the University of Chicago, arrived in Nice Sunday, happy and carefree, after a beautiful tour throughout Italy. They left here accompanied by Photographer Rugg, yesterday morning. The passengers stopped for luncheon at noon at the little hotet Olivier in the village of Guillaumes, perched high in the French Alps, leaving for Briancon at 2 o'dock, after the Americans had gracefully agreed to make room for a Frenche man, Jean Paul of Nice, who was de« sirous of getting a lift to Barcellon« ette. Paul escaped with slight injuries and was able to relate his experi- ences. The car, he said, proceeded at normal speed over the dangerous roads along the left bank of the river Var, ranging from 300 to 900 feet above the level of the river bed. On Hairpin Tum About 2% miles south of Guil« laumes the road crosses one of the small torrents common in the vielnity. The bridge over this stream is reached by a hairpin turn down the side of the mountain the road in its steep in- cline' dropping 100 feet in less than 1,000 yards. | The car gathered terrific speed de- | cending the hill, the chauffeur ac- cording to M. Paul apparently losing control of the vehicle as the brakes did not seem to respond. He ne- gotiated the bridge safely nevertheless but was unable to take the sharp turn at full speed. The Frenchman, seated on the side of the car opposite the chasm, was thrown into the road and stunned as the vehicle hit the parapet and crashed over. As he fell he heard horrified shricks from others of the passengers who were flung away from the open seats as if from a giant catapuit, into the river bed below, the car itself turning a complete somer- sault. M. Paul says the fact that the car was completely overturned | probably saved the lives of many of {the passengers some of whom fell from 20 to 40 feet away from W machine. The passengers who were killed outright were those who were unable |to extracate themselves from the seats and were crushed , under the heavy vhicle. Th shrieks of terror as the car fell were succeeded by the wails of the | dying and appeals for heip from the wounded. Insensibly only momentar- ily, Paul dragged himself to the para- pet and gave one look into the chasm. | A Terrifying Scene “l never saw and I never expect to see a more terrifying scene,” he |told his friends today, “and I have | been through four years of war,” he |added sadly. | A passing automobile belonging o | (Continued on Fourteenth Page).