Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-26 | Page 1 | Unusual Accident

UNUSUAL ACCIDENT One Man Killed, Another Anoth-er Fatally Injured in Auto Collision New York, July 26. Charles HIrsch. a manufacturer of Brooklyn, was in stantly killed, and John Wotka, a chauffeur, was fatally Injured in an unusual automobile accident early today to-day on Pelham Parkway. HIrsch had crawled beneath his car to make repairs re-pairs when a second automobile crashed crash-ed into it, wrecking both machines, and crushing HIrsch so badly that he died a few minutes later. The chauffeur of the second autoombile, John Wotka, had been blinded by the glare of a third automobile, and, in swerving out. struck the Hirsch machine ma-chine Wotka as he la,y In the ambulance, am-bulance, kept repeating: "My God, that glare, that glare!" The physicians say Wotka is not expected to live. Three other occu-1 occu-1 pants of Wotka's car wore slightly hurt, Including John Giles of South Norwalk, Conn., the owner of the car. . They were returning to Norwalk. -T-hxeo-frJendH.oMr.- HIrsch, wJiowere standing in the road, wore uninjured.