The sun., 1900-11-30
STA GEFUL OF WOMEN UPSET
yTvg or ~ THE IOAD or YIvTEgN
SERIOt sly INJt RID.
The, were . Committee of Reception ia"
Returning In Procession FROM . fias Pre-
sensaton In a sohooihosse IN Browerto~n.
Near Pst.r,oo rbs Driver Also Hurt.

pArEnsoN, v j. Nov 90 serious scc'-
dent occurred at Brovcrtown, village tour
miles west Of this city. late this afternoon NJ
tho conclusion Of flag dedication exercises ~
the new Browertown schoolhons" Wuilain
Parker Council. No. IJ;. Junior order hi,eh
American Mechanics. presented the nag ana
large number of the members OF the orner
turned out 10 participate IN IN" "N"f'i>eS ''e
men marching and the women going III Stages
They had just started for home when 'he hoises
IN the stage containing the Reception Committee
ran away. They were going down mn.
buckle on the reins had become unfastcned
ard IN. driver thus lost control OF the animals.
Many OF the women tainted as the horses new
down the hill After running about quarter
of n mil. they came to a sharp curve IN 'he
road The stace had been swaying dangerously
and when IL came TO the curve II caps''n anu
rolled down a tcn-foot crnbanHmeht lhe
women were thrown out and many ol 'heih
we're caught under the stage
The names Of those In the stage were Alrs'
W Kendall Miss Emma Bell Mrs Z"
Cosso Mira 5 Howell. Mrs George huesus'
Mrs = n Mcbride Mrs {. Rosmer, Miss Bertha
Roberts. Miss Nellie Bell. Mrs "reer
Mrs George Halstead. Mrs. NJ Kelly Mfs
William Reynolds Miss Mary Roberts ana
Nrs b. Il WhitmoTe
Miss Emma Hell IL tfGiOuSiy '"N
struck on her head when she was 'hro"n o'''
She lives at IFS Sixteenth avenue
MICS Mary Roberts received Internal IN
,uries
Mrs George Halstead OF 90 Sixteenth avenue
was badly bruised ana shahe"' ~ -
she Is paralyzed .,,
Mrs Howell of Park avenue was tatly bruised
Mira W r Greer Of 30 Sixteenth avenue
receiyed several slight confused WOUNDS
The driver. George Westervel' had TWO rios
broken and his back injured
These we're the most seriously injured lhes
we're oil taken home in carriages
II the stage had continued on III" roao Hlo"'
n hundred feet further IL would have run down
another stage ahead OF II, also containing
women The latter say that they only got
glimpse Of Ahe runaway as 1t was on the curve
and then it disappeared. Their driver s'oppto
and they went back 10 the assistance OF 'h'
injured A large body OF the men were aiso
soon on the scene assisting 10 eItricate 'hehe
less aud unconscious women lhese were
carried into the house OF Ri,h hard tasson' we
man who had donated the ground for The new
schoolhouse and member OF william fafEet
Council
Tho women In the runaway stage had oerh
the happiest Of the company and bad been III
we're Given after tho exercises AT the school
Fy.rvthins had gone of so smoothly that all
the ladies were congratulatlng themselves on
the pleasant day they had spent They had
started To sing as the stage rolled away iioih
the srhoolhouse.
While the team was carterinG down tie
country road at lively gait the buckle on
the relns gave away. The ladies in the Stage
saw the rens broke. but A. 4. Zabriskie' the
owner OF the stage. exhibited the harness and
rsinsIa,er I'm the evening, 10 prove that the reis
did not break 1t was a new set of harness
and il is supposed that the tongue Of the buckle
had worked out O, the leather. The driver
VAS milling strongly on the horses a. they
were going doyuhill and he nearly fell back
into the BODY Of tie stage when the buckle
gave way. Tho horses were starissd ana
broke into a wild race urged on Immediately
by the screams OF the frightened women,
m. driver insists that he did not lose con-
troll Of the horses. but the women say lie did
xo,e q, n. women can tell what hapIene cd
A. the curve. They simply know that the
.ta re evasswaying dangerously when 1t reached
~. curve and then they we're pitched out
Many OF them wers unconscious "hrh '|'E
war. nicked up from the field or taken out
irCn under the stage lh0'" VINO went 10
80 re.cu, cannot comprehend why some Of
the women were not killed ana regard tho
,rct thatno a limb was broken as almost mirac-
uluus Several Of the women may be more
dangerously injured than the appearance
OF their injuries indie Gates cali "a' sent
70 the city for carriages and the fifteen women
we're conveyed to their homes in that manner
They were all safely housed by O'CLOCK.