The age-herald., 1898-10-25
THREE BICYCLISTS
 GET BAD FALLS Ran Into Some Excavations at Fourth
 Avenue aud Twentieth Street. ED. ALLEN PAINFULLY HURT His Knee Cap Knocked Out Of Place and Internal Injuries. TWO BOYS HAD SPILLS While Doctor Was Attending Allen The Birmingham Railway and
 Electric Company Was Re-
 moving Crossing
ED. ALLEN PAINFULLY HURT
BOYS HAD
TWO

Some uncovered and unlighted excava- last night cased one bicyclist to get spill which almost proved fatal, and two other bicyclists to narrowly escape serious in- juries Ed Allen was the young man serl- home of his brother, Fred Allen, on the South Highlands.
 The Birmingham Railway and Electric company had force of men on yesterday intersection of the streets mentioned, and they had only finished digging the dirt out from around the crossties when night came on and the work was stopped. There was pile of crossties right by the excavations, though just on the outside of the car track. The workmen placed four lanterns on top of the pile of crossties, but in such man. ner, it is said, that a shadow vas cast on the hole inside the track. Nor was there any electric light on this corner to give warning of the danger.
 Not Aiding Fast
 It is customary with nearly all bicycists riding on Twentieth street between Fourth and Sixth avenues, both going and coming, to ride in the middle of one of the car tracks, becase the riding is so much smoother. Young Allen was riding down the track toward the city last night about o'clock, and it is said that he was not riding at an excessive rate of speed.
 Before he realized what had happened he had run into the excavations in the middle of the track, and the next instant he was lying senseless ten or twelve feet over the handle-bars. It was an ugly spill the front wheel of Aliens wheel being shattered, and he himself being knocked senseless.
 The accident happened almost in front of the Riddle Warrent Cycle company and the injured man was taken in there for by this time. but was suffering terribly. His knee cap was knocked entirely out of place and the plucky fellow put it back in it's proper position. His arms were badly bruised and strained though thev were not broken. About this time he began to com plain that he felt as if he was bleeding in- formally, and then he suddenly fell over in his chair in a dead faint. pr. Heffin had in the meantime arrived, but it was nearly an hour before Allen was brought back to consciousness. He was taken immediately to his brothers residence, where his injur- ies were fully dressed, and he was made as comfortable as possible. Dr. Hefin said that he could not determine last night whether Allen was injured internally or not.
 The Other Unfortunates
 While Allen was in the store being cared forehead, and his wheel broken, he having fallen into the hole just as Allen had. Only a few minutes later another boy came in the store, he, too, having fallen in, though he was not injured as much as the first boy had been.
 John Warren thought that it was then about time to go out and put up a warning at the point of danger, which he did by means of one of the big lanterns. He took the responsibility of having the excavations filled in with dirt, so that even if any one failed to see the lights, he would not run into the hole.
 MT. Allen, the rider who was so seriously hurt, works for Smith & Coughlan, at their compress and is a very capable and prom ising young man. He came to this city only few months ago from Atlanta. He resides at I'll North Nineteenth street, and he told the people with whom he boarded that he was going down town on his bicycle for few minutes only. His brother, Fred Allen, is circulation manager of The Age- Herald. At the latest reports last night, the patient was resting quietly.