The age-herald., 1901-09-01
With Child in Arms She Mas Crossing Twentieth At
 Third Avenue
STRUCK WITH AWFUL FORGE
The Car, In Charge of a Green Motor man, Was On Her Without Warn lng-Their Identity un-
 known All Day.

Mrs. Lizzie B. Norris, wife of Curry S. Norris, an employe of the M. c. Reynolds Lumber Company,and her 2-year-old child were crushed to death by an electric car in Twentieth street about 10 o'clock yes- terday morning. The woman, with her babe clasped in her arms, was attempting to cross Twentieth street at Third ave usually high rate of speed for a crowded section of the city. The warning. if there was any, came too late, and the mother and her child were dead before their dan ger could scarcely have been realized.
 From 10 o'clock till s:3O in the afternoon the identity of the victims was unknown. The two bodies lay side by side in a back room of the undertaking establishment of Gaudin and Loy in Twenty-flrst street, and were viewed by curious throng, which made a continuous stream through the house. At 6:9O MT. Norris made his way through the crowd and identified them as his wife and child.
 The car was No. 163 of the Highland Loop Line, and was in charge of Con ductor McGiIl and Motorman John Smith. Charles Courson, a beginner, was running the car at the time of the accident Both Courson and Smith were arrested and are now In the county jail.
 There were threats of violence against the crew immediately after the accident, but Smith was hustled away by the police before he could be harmed, and Courson got out of the way not being arrested till an hour later.
 Returned to an Empty Home.
 Curry s. Norris is employed by the M. c. Reynolds Lumber Company as gen> eral manager of their yards in ,Avondale. With his wife he resided In Twenty : fifth street, between Fourth and Fifth ay- erlue. M. F. Coe and family occupy a portion of the house. He left home early yesterday morning, making the trip to Avondale on wheel, and worked all day in ignorance of the calamity that had be- fallen him. He had heard of the accident, of course, but with others he speculated as to the identity of the victims.
 At 5:30 o'clock the employees of the lum> Der yard were paid off, and MT. Norris came to town on his wheel. He went di- rect to his home, and finding his wife
 
 abouts. Mrs. Coe could tell him nothing. He knew that his wife had come to the city in the morning to see her brother off for Tuscaloosa on the 10 o'clock train, and the fear seized him that perhaps she was the victim of the accident that hs had been discussing Tn half an hour he was at the undertaklng establishment in Twenty-f1rst street, edging his way through the throng.
 ''You can't come in now" said the po- liceman on guard. You will have to wait till the crowd thins out"
 T must get in," he replied, and he forced his way into the dead room.
 My God, it is my wife and child. he exclaimed
 Then he all but collapsed, and had to be carried into front room, and physi- clan summoned. He became hysterical and opiates had to be administered t, quiet him.
 The bodies will be taken to Tuscaloosa at 10 o'clock this morning and the funeral will be he'd this afternoon MT. and, Mrs. Norris formerly resided in that city.
 How the Accident Occurred.
 Mrs. Norris left home yesterday morn- ing to see her brother Tom Norris, off for Tuscaloosa, on the train which leaves at 10 o'clock. She had evidently been to the Union passenger station and walking back upon the west side of Twentieth street decided to cross to the east side and take a car home, at the corner of Third avenue. She carried her baby in her right arm and was moving at an ordinary gait
 Suddenly when the middle of the street car track was reached a car going south at fast speed struck her. She was thrown backward about five feet and her child knocked from her arms. Her head struck the hard, stone pavement as she fell Then the car with undiminished momentum plunged onward and over the