New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-19
WHEELWOMAN KILLED.
RUN OVER IN MADISON-AVE. BY A HEAVY
FEED CAR
ONE LEG CUT OFF AND THE OTHER CRUSHED
INTERNAL INJURIES ALSO sUSTAlNED-IhE
GARDINER UNDER ARREST

INTERNAL INJURIES ALSO sUsTANED-THE
GARDINER UNDER ARREST.
Mrs. Edna Polrler, thirty years old. Of No 4Ss
West Twenty-nrst-st. met with a fatal accident
about $3.50 o'clock yesterday afternoon while ridhg
a bicycle IN Madison-ave., between Forty-n!nth ana
Fiftieth In avoiding a carriage she turned INTO
the car track and run over by heavy leed
car that was being drawn uptown by four horses
The car IL one used by the Madison-ave. surface
railroad for cartng feed to It's stables
Mrs Porier fell In such a position that the for
ward wheel OF the heavily laden car passed over
both Of her legs. one OF them was badly crushed,
while the other cut off. Mrs Poir!er also sus-
tanned internal injuries. Two hours and half
after the accident occurred she died In the Flower
Hospital.
The driver OF the was placed under arrest
Immediately and was held without bail He as
that the accident could not have been avoided
as the woman rode against the horses His state
ment Is corroborated by two policemen who VIZ
messed the accident. The driver .s Amos Richard
son. Of 40 as West Thiriy-slxth-st. He ls sixty
years old and has been employed FOR half MS lito
by the Mad!son-ave. line
Al the place whore tho accident happened there
Is somewhat Of ascent. Mrs. Polrier. who was
riding downtown her wheel reached the brow
OF the Hill about the same time the feed car
Behind her carriage was being rapiN driven In
the same direction that she going She seemed
TO become nervous the carriage pressed close be-
hind her. and. evidently fearing that she would
be down II she kept her course. wheeled 10
the left with the probable Intention OF riding along
the track. II may De-. however. that SIC
had II IN her mind 70 cut across 10 tho other side
II the avenue. thinking she had time 10 pass 70
front OF the approaching feed car which was then
close 70 her The result that she rode directly
In between the leaders and the pole horses. She
thrown to the ground and trampi-l beneath
the pole horses. Richardson. who says he was
watching Tho woman approaching him. put on the
brake and tried 70 bring the car 20 A stop Having
four horses to control. h. could no, instantly 90
70. and ono ~ the forward wheels Of the passed
over the woman before the car could be stopped.
Two policemen had also been watching the woman
az she rode the brow OF the hill. and they
by the side OF the car .nstan, after II was
stopped. The woman lay across the track. with her
head and the upper part OF her body beneath the
Her LEFT leg had been cut clean Of llttle
above the knee. The policemen carried her 10 the
sidewalk. where OF them remained by her side
while The other hurried 70 store near by and rang
FOR ambulance. The policemen were Patrolmen
HausSler AM richardson. OF the East fl!tS -hrst-
81 station Richardson does patrol du,y along me
town when Mrs Polrier was run over. Policeman
Hauss.er was standing at Madson-av and Fifteth-
II. the time
Mrs. Polrcr was conscious when rfted from be-
neath the car and carried 20 the sidewalk. Po.ice-
name. shc ga not wan, TO give Z, AZ nrst. but
when ;he policeman asked her the second time she
lived No. ii3 Yves; Twenty-frst-st An ambu-
lance soon arrived from the Flower Hospital in
charge OF Dr crump. lie gave what aid ne could.
and the injured woman ih@n conveyed 70 the
hospital II was found there that her right leg
WAS broken N several PAGES and that she had
also received internd. injuries. l. seen
one" that she could no, live. She died few mn
utcs Do fore o'clock
When her history was taken a. The hospital she
81 that her name Edna POir.er In giving
the other name 20 the policeman she begged that
her husband should not be tOli OF the terrible ac-
cdcn, which had happened TO her.
When a reporter called a. the POrier house
shortly after O'Clock with news OF Mrs. Poir!ers
death. 10 learned that the husband had jus,
been Informed ~ the accident and had driven 20
thu hospital. unaware thai D. VIE dead. L;
was said that the couple had furnish 81 apartments
~ the house. but the woman who sad she had
charge OF he house positively refused D give
any Information concerning the Po riers. She would
not even tell what the husbands business
The dead womans hlcyc." was N 4 room at the
East Fifty-nrst-s- station last night. II badly
smashed, the front whec. being knocked TO pieces.