The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-22
earle CAR INJURIES TWO.
an pRoADHAY BLUECOAT AND a
d" UOM1N RUN DOWN.

v,c.rting Hcr Across the Track at
H....,,r a~treet-Fourth policeman &c Ne
"a, since the view Br,adwaJ sauad Wal
n''-.d-wom.n n Pnbiho Sohoel Teacher.
,.uo,man John Magnor, with a broken collar
49,. Fractured ribs. and bruispd legs and head.
- bod M his home at 325 East Eighty-ninth
-, the fourth member OF the broadway
go TO be laid low within the two weeks that
~ rcorsanized company OF giants mas been
: duty. He was knocked down by a cable car
u C.snd street yesterday afternoon. while
o. Miss Carrie Cobb, a teacher Of music
- - nrbIic schools, across broadway on her
70 attend n meeting at tho Board OF Educa-
w , u,ll in Grand street. Miss Cobb was
V".hod down with him and suffered what APP
".,oJ IN bo q scalp wound. but which may
-, IN he n depressed fracture OF the skull.
r., o,ber injuries she may have received,
IL, the surface bruises which were ap-
s.ron, the doctors could not tell yesterday.
e. vas unconscious for half an hour after the
accident.
NJ rf,,icth street, was arrested. The driver
,r,cr or delivery wagon. which might be
.,,d partly responsible for the mishap, escaped.
Tho noliceman, with "a continuance OF the pluck
rhicb characterized him at tho time OF the col
,,,or went home in u cab afterthe broken collar
hone had been set at 81. vincent Hospltei.
Miss Cobb was kept at the hospital.
n was some time after 3 O'Clock when Mag
= while standing between tho Broadway rail-
INV tracks, saw Miss Cobb on the western side
=, ,he street. indicating her desire to get across
with n reasonable chance for her life. Miss
Cobh lives at 3e7 Lenox avenue. where the cleo
,ric cars Of the Broadway system don't keep
r,.ssrs.hy guessing quite as lively as do the
.,Me cars down town. Magner went to assist
h,r and. taking her arm, started with her cast
rord across The tracks. ahead OF Heinos's car.
which was bound uptown at n rate, Magncr
,nys, more rapid than was proper or safe. The
noliceman thought, however. that he had timo
10 get over ahead of 1t.
The car struck the policeman and tho woman
and threw them forward into q truck. or deliv-
ery wagon. which was going uptown on the cast
aide OF the road. The wagon, being In rapid
motion, tossed them back against the car. which
bowled them over, ninging Miss Cobb from tho
policeman's grasp, and dragging him along
thirty feet or moro before people made the grip
man understand what had happened and 60.
Y Hcines says that he didn't know his car had
struck anybody, and that it must have been the
wagon that was to blame. Holmes also says that
he didn't see where Mngner was. even after ho
had stopped his car. According to Roundsman
G i dnn9 o T tSc p aesiasny f fro% S Sysns dea s %a an
%pfostrate. having jumped. up as soon
II the cob car pr wns a ssGppSS siiples snd' on SEEING sRS
pavement. run Off toward the nearest telephone
Office to send for an ance to take care Of
The woman he hal tried to protect with such i'll
success. Only one thing he paused to do before
that. He told the first policeman no met coming
up on a run, Reuben Huntington of tho Maodou-
gal street station. to jump on the car and arrest
tho gripman. Before Megner had taken many
more steps Policeman James Mulligan Of the
atran aonad had emma nm RI prno1-
to cali the ambulance, .Magner finally sue
cumbed to the pain Of his injuries and waited
Bystanders had carried Miss Cobb to Q neigh.
boring store. where o man who posed as .
physician undertook not only to treat her. but
10 claim her as a patient, 30 Ambulance Sur
gson De Naouley ofst. vincent's Hospital says.
srst. this ihs s ssifstslsd p sSs tasT' s aid 10 Na0ui''
Pulse, temperature, and respiration normal.
doctor: this is my case; was here Immediately;
shell BE- al right. / gave her q dose of
DR.. De Naouley asked him why he had given
her s%tryGhnin. II her pulse ! sed temperature emu and
that he did so because she was suffering from
Then" said DR.. De Naouley. "ber pulse.
respiration. and temperature arc not normal. 10
che your patienti For IL she is of course I do
not want TO take her from you."
The man admitted that be was not her regu-
lar physician. Then DR.. De Naouloy learned
that ts !he ambulance call was a police call and
tv nul case u pOuce Cdo0s DO no UOlu Inc
volunteer doctor TO clear out.
How severe the shock and injury were to Miss
Cobb may be gathered from tho fact that when
consciousness returned at the hospital sho was
% utterly bewildered that she not only wanted
70 know where she was and what had happened
70 her. but When it had happened and whether
1t was q month ago.
The doctors wanted Wagner to remain at the
hospital for q time. but as soon as they had at
Tended him he insisted upon going home, saying
tnat his wife, who was i'll. would be made worse
Hhe was late in getting home.
Wagner Is q feet 1 inches tall. He has been on
the force nearly eleven years. but wal not q
member or the old Broadway squad. Before be-
iLng drafted for the new squad and assigned to
Srand street two weeks ago he was ON duty at
thS East Eighty:eishth street station house.
Policeman John S~choppmeyer. who for two
years was stationed at broadway and Houston
ttfeet, Is In st. Luke's Hospital suffering from
INJURIES received, on duty which will probably
make MIN a cripple for life. On Dec. 81 no was
Iuptured in lifting. single handed, a wagon
that mad been knocked over by a truck and a
Saole car in collision. 1t had fallen on the
ariver, who had been thrown from his seat. In
hnmlnent danger of being trampled by tho
norses Schoppmeyer raised tho wagon and
sayed Tue man from being crushed.
inough badly ruptured, he continued on duty,
snq Yen days later stopped n runaway cab horse
On ms corner, IL had thrown its driver and was
Iusning nladlv upon an advancing cable car,
Win q helpless woman in the cab shrieking for
MHeip. Inc policeman sprang upon the horse.
Ee was dragged fifty feet and fractured his