New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-08
ONE SUNDAYS ACCIDENTS.
BICYCLES AND TROLLEY CARS FIGURE
AS CAUSES.

Charles links Sunday outing at Coney Island
ended in death at $50 o'clock last night IinK'
while riding on a troey-car Of the Lorimer-st'
line. fell from the step at Nostrand-ave. and NAL
bone-st striking on his head. His skull was
fractured and on the arrival Ambulance surgeon
Nen, from the Kings County Hospital ne was
dead.
link was forty-two years old. cigarmaker oy
occupation. and lived at No 2lS stasg-st. he lei,
his home at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, a me
went to Coney Island After ENJOYING . hI When
Se re tPGf every ses Sss The
d back 6a9 to ds on h step and
on TO one of the stanchons ..
When the car nearing Bedford-aye an S extra
link link lost his e1 hold and e headOns to street
AS he did not rise the car was stoppen anu rs
bleeding from his nose and ears poll policeman n,
being called AMBULANCE Surgeon Men was sum sum
was almost instantaneous The body was re-
moved to the Grant;st police statIon ., bnmicde
after he had taken his car and passengers 10 'he
e'i The motorman will have hearing in the Grant
ST. police court to-day before MAGISTRATE steers:
While the road was led with "heene baSpened
at Fort Hamilton-ave. and ocean Parkway,, III
T he fender PGa and received fractured
skull The boy. who is about sixteen years oi ha
Sad b alGne an snG 10 the seney Hospa
The following description was given by i i6sn DIV
the boy this morning: He is of medium height s,,,s
about sixteen years old. with SANDY nalr anu pIue
eyes There is scar on the back OF MS righss
hand. His sleeves were caught up win YIN rec rea
eastics The wheel which the unknown boy rooe
WIS a Pierce. No. 2,49i
When the accident happened there was a
bunch OF riders speeding for home Al fors
Hamilton-ave. a trolley-car of the Coney Island
and Brooklyn line had just started to- cross
the tracks. The riders ahead Of the boy decided
that they would cross ahead OF the car, ana
slowed up suddenly. The boy had made up his
mind in the other direction. and had put on an
extra amount of speed When the riders In front
slowed up suddenly the boy veered quickly to the
right in order avoid accident and TO cross
the tracks ahead the He was going too
fast. and his wheel struck the rear wheel OF the
and thrown against the fender OF the rapidly NOV
ing car.
Luckily the feneder brushed the boy away. but he
had struck the ironwork OF the fender, and when
the other riders went his assistance the boy was
unconscious
An ambulance was called from the Seney Hospital
and the unconscious bicyclst hurried 10 the oper-
ating-room. There is found that his skull had
been fractured. None of those who saw the acct
dent who saw the boy afterward were able 10
identify him.
The motorman and conductor OF the car. Charles
L. Foster. of No. 337 Knickerbocker-ave and Henry
Norris OF No. 36 Paimetto-st., respectively, were
arrested and locked up.
Emily Zedel, fortyfive years old, OF No lib Ridge
wood ave- received conclusion OF the brain last
night in fall from troley-car at Linwood i.
and Jamaica-ave. She riding No. 40l9.
OF the Brooklyn Heights line, and was on her way
out from Brooklyn In attempting to get of at Lin
wood-st Mrs Zedel was thrown headlong She
became unconscious In few minutes At st.
Mary's Hospital which she was taken II was
said that she suffering from conclusion Of the
brain.