The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-07
WOMAN CYCLIST KILLED.
SHE RIDES HEADLoN8 IyToA HAoos
Nv FIETH Avenue

Was Descending the Hin Mt Tbirty-fourth
street rs the Driver Crossed the Avenue,
aud Could Not stop or swerve-Hor Skull
ana Neck Extraordinarily Unknown.
Awomnn ridlnga bicycle was Instantly killed
In collision with a Long Island Express Com
pnny wagon at Thirty -tourth street and Fifth
avenue early last evening. She was descen ling
the Murray Hill slope that begins about Thirty
seventh street on tho avenue. and tho express
wagon. drawn by two horses. was proceeding
west on Thirty-fourth street. According TO
tho driver. the woman's bicycle ran into his
wagon. striking 1t n foot in from. OF the rear
wheel. The rider pitched forward and her
head struck the hub OF tho wheel tho contact
causing almost instant death. An eye witness
and the driver both say that the woman was
not run over. although tho bicycle was
Almoat Immediately after the collision pedcs.
TRANS and lettering cnbmen rushed to bssist
the PROSTATE woman. and she was carried
into the Thirty.fourth street carriage
court OF the Waldori-As.oria. Blood flowed
from her nostrils AMI ears. She uttered
no word IA abe lay on rubbsr
loot mat awaiting the arrival Of an am bulance,
which had been summoned from the New
York Hospital. After n hnsty exam nation tho
surgeon. Dr. John Soly, snld that the body
WWns i'iTcies.i The ambulance carried 1t 70 the
the rnatrog searched the rockets and clothing
Tor some clue to aid Identification but found
none
The body was that o, n woman Weighing
about one hundred and nftv pounds and an.
irS Speny ano9s .Henty,nys years oli with dark
f.-t i've inches tai. She wore n bicycle skirt
OF brown cloth and an Et9n Jacket Of the same
brown stockings and high bicycle boots. The
jsgGket was trimmed with black braid
The hat was brown felt fedora with a single
feather, The woman wore gold ring Of fancy
design holding two garnets and without inI-
tnis Her pocketbook contained 5000 In
DR., soiiy said that either the crash into tn.
Wagon or ihc tal UPON the pnyem"nt fractured
the base ot tho womans skull and broke her
neck. There were NO marks to show that tho
wheel had passed over the body. The driver
np in the West ThIrtieth street station. He is
Peer Stark, 20 years old. OF l49 Noll street.
driving at hishsr speed than The law permits h
and that he did not see the woman riding
II heard a shout and felt tho wagon Jared"
= pulled up and turned around in my ' seat al
over something. l guess It was the wheel, but
the woman was not run over. When saw her
stu. l did not see her coming down the
ayense. She must have run into the wagon
me Sera h there snd sss sn: sa
nEs TO aso ,a ss ssta
Waiting on the Waldorf a.tor Gs Corners s% .sa
that people who mingled with the crowd
around the woman declared that the rider had
evidently lost control OF her wheel D. W.
Cohen OF l27 West Fourth street told Police
man Tompkins that the woman rode down the
hill at rapid rate.
The express wagon was going slowly and
was about in the middle OF the avenue" said
Mr.. Cohen. Il saw the woman coming down
the hill at rapid rate. Other people looked at
her. and On she seemed TO be unable to atop or
manage the wheel properly soms one shouted
TO the driver OF the wagon which was Just cross
ing the avenue He pulled up and Just then
she crashed into the wagon. don't link the
driver can be blamed. for car. see how no
could have avoided the collision. i think my
sell that the woman was unable to stop or
slow up"
Another man who saw the accident told q
cabmnn TINT the woman evidently could not
stop her wheel and that she tried TO steer over
toward the east side OF the avenue to pass the
rear END OF the wagon. The wagon isa heavy
one and was loaded with trunks and nled bar
rels. The front wheel OF the bicycle was des-
troyed. the lamp and hsndlebnr crushed and
the bell knocked oil. The wheel was labelled
Tally ho" and numbered 1911.