New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
BOTH HER LEGS CUT OFF.
MISS ADALINE MULLER RUN DOWN BY A
TROLLEY CAR
YOUNG SCHOOL TEACHER CRIPPLED FOR
LIFE BICYCLING IN DANGEROUS
PLACE-HER COMPANION [

pIACE-HER COMPANION UNHURT.
Miss Alkaline Muller. twenty years old. OF NO ITO
North Oxford-st-, substitute teacner III the .i
haitian public schools. was run over by Douglass
St trolley car, OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit sys
tenn at Cumberland-st. and Atlantic-ave'' ias'
ntgbt at about 7:lO o'clock and both OF her legs
were cut off lust above the knees. Despite tne
terrible shock to her system. she soon resai,eu
consciousness and the surgeons at the brooNlyn ~
City Hospital TO which she was TAKEN eApieS'e'
the hope that she would survive =
Miss Muller and her chum, Miss Rlppehoeie, VI
the same address started out for spin on their
wheels Just before O'Clock, intending 10 s'op anu
see some acquantances in Sixth-aVe' iheS 'e
through Cumberland-st. to Atantic-aVe'' "he'e al
iron fence incoses the tracks OF the Long lslaho
Railroad This point is the end OF Cumperiano-st
but there is a foot passageway across the tracks
The path Is guarded by iron gates, whlcn are
worked automatically by the swftchman down tne
track. This passageway is about four ieet "lde'
and is hardly intended for bicyciists' aithoush
many expert riders take this route across the
tracks.
The iron gates were open and Miss Muller and
her companion according TO the motorman on the
car which ran over Miss Muller did not dismount
but continued right across the steam tracks into
Atlantic-ave The trolley tracks or the Dougass-
ST. line are close to the iron fence nut between
the inner trolley track and the renee Is space OF
about five feet.
As soon as Miss Muller and Miss Rippenberg
passed through the gates they turned sharply TO
the right down Atlantc-ave.. placing themselves in
the nsrrow space between the inside track and the
iron fence Along the trolley car, bound FOR
| the Bridge with John Lenihan. the motormah'
Changing the bell.
"They didn't to realize that they were right
in front of me-" said Lenihan TO Tribune re-
porter Just before he locked up by the police
| They were chatting together, and didn't look
| around They had come through the gates so
| quickly that they alongside the track before
| l knew It almost and as saw the danger
I screwed on the brake. 1t is downhill right there
and the car moving quite rapidly. Just as
came up 10 Miss Muller she turned to the left try
INK to cross the track ahead of me. Her tire dlo
not mount the rail. Her front wheel struck the
side OF the rail- the bicycle lurched to one SIDE
the girl fell right on the inside rail in front OF
the fender and the front trucks passed over ner
and the wheel don't see how was to blame at
ALL She had fallen off before the fender struck her
at all"
There were about ten passengers in the car an
open one and all was excitement in an instant
ance of Miss Muller, who was pinned under IN. tne
truck Of the car They M tried bI to t ed aed 9G, sbe
could not be lifted. She was unconscious at TINS
A crowd soon gathered. and twenty or thirty
men and boys got hold of the side Of. Of the ,a car
Conscious woman but it was too heavy. Then
message was sent to truckhouse No; o; In Paclnc-
St, and the hremen came ana ll'eu '"o 'ai WIN
As soon as Miss Muller was lifted from the rails
Il was seen that her limbs were completely sew
cred They we're picked up several feet away.
She soon regained consciousness, and, looking
she had been run over she quickly asked if her
feet had been cut off No one answered her. and
oh this is terrible. G!ye me something to
make me unconscious again;
moaned oh what will poor mother do now%
on the way to the Brooklyn City Hospital she
seemed more concerned about her mother than her
penberg seeing what had befaen her friend tainted
stored She was so weak that she could give little
assistance beyond telling her name and that Of her
M Miss MeF we're was Sent for She lives With
her widowed mother and sister Hattie az tne
teacher. and Adaline had recently passed the ex-
animation for regular place In the Queens County
fall Kiss RMPRsneesg TSr Is the daHsts5
bicycle With Sbis Tse ebetkeS stEaT sr ha sSe
weighs about one hundred pounds and has light
hair and blue eyes. - ,,. 49,.
Lenihan is experienced motorman' having l neen
with the Nassau company ever since It was started:
He lives at Rockaway and New-Lots ayes; he was
questioned at the staIh snvsd o to ohf nsh
his trip before being locked up. The conductor was
Peonie in the neighborhood where the accident
took place wonder that any one should attempt 10
ride a wheel between the inside trolley track ana
tho iron fence on Atlantic-aVe The space is NOT
more than five feet and here and there are tee-
graph poles. If Miss Muller had kept on across s
both trolley tracks she would have been sate Sne
doubtless saw her danger, and thought that there
would be by keeping close 70 the fence for me
trolley car TO pass. and then seeing that 1t would
he dangerous TO risk II she tried when too late. 10
get across the rails ahead of the car. ana
of the Greenport line into collision yester-
day morning in Broadway. near Kent-ave. MISS
Suu 9ifth ave were thrown from the seat Of one Of
the cars and received contusons of the body and
limbs The tenders and front platforms Of each car
were smashed.