GREENBERG

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The Marin Journal
Thursday, April 26, 1923
Page 1

Train Strikes Car
One Man Killed

One man received injuries from which he later died and four other persons were painfully hurt Sunday afternoon when the car in which they were riding was struck by a Northwestern Pacific train at the diagonal crossing on Irwin street.

Max Greenberg, one of the oldest employees of Roos Brothers, San Francisco, sustained a fracture of the skull, and died at 9 o’clock Sunday night in a San Francisco hospital.

Mrs. Greenberg suffered severe contusions and cuts; Henry Mohr was badly hurt in the chest; Mrs. Blanche Fischel, Mohr’s sister, received a sprained ankle and an injury to the neck, and her daughter, Ruth, aged 12, suffered from abrasions and shock.

The occupants of the car were removed to the Emergency Hospital here and attended by Dr. J. H. Kuser and Dr. R. G. Dufficy, and later they were removed to hospitals in San Francisco.

According to Mohr, owner of the Cadillac car which was wrecked, he failed to hear the whistle of the approaching train until his car had reached the crossing, when it was too late to stop. He attempted to speed up, but the engine caught the rear end of the machine and hurled it off the track, overturning it and pinning the occupants underneath. Owing to the diagonal course of the road and the track, he did not see the train until it was at the crossing.