New-York tribune., 1901-04-30
CAR STRIKES STAGE.
TWO PEOPLE BADLY HURT IN A MADI-
SON-AVE. COLLISION.

A Madson-ave. electric car going north and
running at high rate of speed on the heavy
down grade beginning at Eighty-eighth-st. hit
a Fifth-ave. stage coach last night at Eighty
ninth-st The coach was overturned and it
slid along the pavement for fifty feet. Three
women riding inside of it slightly injured
and two top seriously. The drivers skull
was fractured The almost filled with
men and women One of the latter injured
The injured
BISBIE Catharine thirty years old. of No. 81 West
Eleventh ST.. scalp wounds and shock
pitai No IS West Forty second-st.. hip and pelvs
fractured
3 MsS4 g ssrs years old of No
MALIEN Ida Of No. 1.4o4 Park-ave. shock and cuts
m East gap Wound a and 0
ROEs Catherine NJ. of sprague Hospital concussion
of brain and scalp wound
Three ambulances were called from the Pres
byterian Hospital.
The stage left the stables in Eighty-ninth-
st. on its regular schedule time for a trip down
town. The hour was s o'clock. Miss Roes and
Miss Clark were on top. Miss Bsbee, Miss Car
penter and Miss O'Neill inside and the driver,
Connors, on the box.
AS Connors neared Madison-ave. he saw that
the car, of which Harley Walker. thirty
years old, of No. - East Eighty -ffth-st., was
motorman, running very fast. He tried to
stop, but the stage, like the car, down
grade. and before he knew it he was almost on
the tracks. His only hope to get over
He lashed his team, and the horses leaped for
ward. but it was too late. Despite desperate
efforts by the motorman the car hit the rear
wheel Of the stage. and with a terrific crash
overturned that vehicle and hurled it fifty feet
along the pavement.
Harley stuck to his post. 1t was a miracle
he Dof ehed Iaa tba
Of the car and front dashboard We're smashed
into fragments. He managed to stop the car
before 1t hit the coach a second time
Miss Rees the side of the stage top
nearest the car and when the collision occurred
she thrown top of the car. There she lay
unconscious. Her companion, Miss Clark and
Connors thrown in the other direction, and
fell pile of brick in front of an apartment
house under construction.
The three in the stage were found
lying in a heap among the debris of broken
framework and glass They were bleeding and
almost unconscious
Louis Solomon, a watchman carried A night
stick and with that he called the police. Police
man Higgins first and then dozen other police
men ran to his aid. After a little while Cap
tain Dean and part of the reserves from the
East Eighty-eighth-st. station arrived.
Higgins sent in calls for ambulances TO the
Presbyterian Hospital. Three, in charge of
Surgeons Coonley, Dormann and Wheelwright.
answered in a hurry
The team OF horses attached to the stage ran
70 Fifth-ave. They not hurt.
Mueller's drug store turned into tenn
porary hospital, and all the injured were car
ried there. Miss Roes was lifted from her
perous position on top of the
The Fifth-ave. stage company sent ITS auto
mobile stages to the scene and took all the in
5ured persons able to go their homes. A num-
Der of women in the car who tainted recovered
quickly. and declined to give their names. Some
went home the Others went home in
cabs or the automobiles.
The accident attracted an enormous crowd, and
the police had their hands full The line was
blocked for half hour