The morning call., 1894-10-22
HE CoLLIDED WITH A BUGGY.
Then Followed a Runaway and
Smashup.
TWO THROWN TO THE GROUND.
Another Bicyclist Dashes Into Com
veyance, but Gets the Worst
of the Encounter.

The first serious park accident since the
Commissioners permitted bicyclists TO in-
termingle indiscrimnately with carriages
on Sunday afternoons in Golden Gate
Park happened yesterday. a young wheel
man was dangerously injured, and two
other young men out riding for the after
noon suffered painful wounds and had
their buggy badly smashed.
1t was about P. NJ, when the carriages
were passing out from the music concourse
in various directions. The main drive was
literally covered with all manner of
vehicles, some going toward the ocean and
some in the opposite direction. while a
stream of other carriages flowed in from
the concourse as the concert was coming
TO close. Right in the thick of this crush
many wDeelmen dashed hither and thither
with apparent disregard for their own
safety.
ii. j. Vollmer was one of these rather
reckless riders, but be did not escape as
Others had done. As he was heading for
the Cliff House he ran into horse and
buggy opposite the old music pavilion.
The buggy contained John Lyons and
friend, who were going homeward. with
Lyons driving The collision frightened
the horse, anu instantly the terrified anil
NAL was dashing through tile crowds and
carriages. NOllmer was lett behind with
his bicycle, and a crowd quickly gathered
and carried him to grassy bank, where
he lay seml-cOnscinuS until taken nome.
Policeman Sam Harper saw the runaway
horse and gave chase, but before running
a hundred yards he saw the buggy collide
With another one and capsiZe. The fright
ened horse struggled forward, dragging
the buggy behind for about fifty yards,
when Harper caught him opposite the
peacock lawn without the aid of lariat.
The horse stood quietly while being cut
away from his tastenines, though in
the smashup his lower legs were severely
gashed. The buggy was total wreck.
Lyons was thrown oIt upon his right
elbow and back and sustained painful in
iugies. which, however, are not regarded
as dangerous. He quickly came to and
expressed his great pleasure at seeing the
young man who had sat beside him and
was also pitched upon the drive uninjured,
except Tor badly cut hand aud various
bruises.
VOllmer was, meanwhile. attended by q
physician, who tied bandage round his
head, which was horribly cut. Evidently
the wheels had crossed his head or the
horse had stamped upon him. He bled so
profusely that the ground where he fell
was covered with blood instantly. Cap
tain Thompson of the park police secured
a hack and sent him nome TO 735 Turk
street. In addition to the wound of the
head it is believed that Vollmer was in
jured internally.
Lyons is an employe of the Bancroft
! Company and lives at 937h Thirteenth
| street. According TO his story Vollmer
rode directly against his buggy with every
! sign of deliberatioD.
! On the other hand VOllmer says he was
! riding to the Cliff on the right side, when
! Lyons turned the corner and did not pull
| his horse either way. Neither horse nor
| bicycle was moving a. q fast speed, so the
! accident was all the more inexcusa BILE.
| just ten minutes later wheelman,
headed for town at risky speed, collided
with buggy coming from the carriage
course to the main drive. The horse was
turning, opposite Chicken Point, into the
drive when the reckless bicycIist became
TOO familiar with the buggy-whee. Pres
! emily there was wheelman in the air and
then in the mud. He picked himself u d
| in daZed way and rode oft. after inter-
! changing eloquent looks with the horse
| man.
| Yielding to the pressure of public
| opinion, the Park Commissioners some
| what reluctantly repealed an old rule pro-
| hibting wheelmen from riding among the
carriages on Sunday. 1t is thought that
these two accidents, if followed by another
one, Will have the effect OF deDarring the
! bicycles from the main drives, at least
| every Sunday afternoon.