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Show AUTO CARRIES THREE TO DEATH 1 Speeds Into an Open Draw, Five Occupants Plunge With Machine Into Chicago River. Two Narrowly Escape With Then Lives, Bodies of Others Not Yet Recovered. CHTCACO. June 10. Throe people wero drowned and two others narrowly escaped a likefate tonight when an automobile In which the live were riding plunged Into the open draw of the Rush sired bridge, crossing tho Chicago river. Those drowned: Dead. JEROME G KTRT7.MAN', Chicago manager for the Llquozone compani. MRS. JEROME G. KURTZMAN V. E HARTLEY, manager for a local automobile establishment. Rescued. The rescued W H. HOOPS. JR., local manager for an automobile company. MRS JEREMIAH RUNYON, New York Cltv Both Mrs Runyon mid Mr Hoops wero unconscious for half an hour after being taken frorn the water, but are exr M ti 3 to recover. No Chains Across Roadway. The accident occurred at the north end of the bridge, where there is an upward fclope of 2ao feet before the end of the bridge or the ede of the draw is reached This slope is so steep that It has not been necessary to stretch chains across tho roadway, as Is done ,-tt a number of other bridges for the reason thai It would lie almost Impossible for a vehicle to slide over the edge Into the river. Shoots for Open Draw. Tonight the occupants of the automobile wl Ich dashed into the river wero coming eouth on Rush btreet, close behind another an-other mai-hlne, tho chauffeur of which, seolng that the draw was open, slackened epced and was comlm? to a ston about lifty feet from the edge of the draw when Hoops, who was driving the rear machine, flunking to pass ahead, pulled out to one side and. putting on extra power shot toward the open draw at the rate of twenty twen-ty miles un nour Attempts to Turn Machine. Vlv-n clos.' to the open draw he realized real-ized his danger and. throwing all his weight on the steering wheel, attempted to turn the rnai lilne to the left and bv running along the nlk'-- of the draw make a quick turn and regain the roadway. The machine was too close to the draw to permit of this. hpWever The machine turned slightly, and for a fraction of a second hung on the brink. The tire of the front wheel ripped off. the hub broke and the machine, after sliding along the edge for a few feet, dropped Into the river thirty feet below. All Plunge Into River. As It slipped along the edge of the draw the women In the automobile creamed In fear and all the occupants rose to their feet, but had no time In which to make another move before they were , thrown Into the river and after them plunged the heavy machine. Hoops and Mrs Runyon fell clear of the heavy machine and were taken front tho river by a number of Teaselmejn who were on the dock Just cast of the bridge. Both were unconscious when rescued, and it raa thirty Dflnutes before they rallied, Mrs Runyon was taken to the Lexington hotel In n'lilghlv hvsterlc.il condition, but Hoopfl recovered within n few minutes uftcr opening his eyes. Bcdics Not Yet Recovered. Nelthir Mr or Mrs Kurtzmau rose to the surface, and it la thought they were pinned beneath the machine l'p to a laic hour the bodies of the three drowned persons had not been recovered It Is believed be-lieved the current carried them further down the stream. |
