The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-09-23
KILLED
BY AN
AUTO
Senator Stewart
Wife Is a
Victim.

SAN FRANCISCO, September IA
Mrs. william NJ. Stewart, wife Of the
Junior United states Senator from
Nevada, was dashed to death yesterday
afternoon in an automobile smash-up
in Alameda. Her two nephews Henry
f. Foote, son of w. w. Foote, and IL.
Il. Taylor, both of Oakland, were her
companions on the fatal ride. They
escaped with the slightest of injuries.
The accident which cost Mrs. Stew
art her life happened strangely
enough, on the day-almost at the
hour-when the bodies of Charles L..
Fair and his wife, victims of an auto
mobile tragedy near Paris. We're being
laid to rest in this city. The Alameda
accident. moreover, was very similar
to that which caused the tragic taking
off of the Fairs.
During the afternoon Mrs. Stewart,
who was visiting her brother, w. w.
Foote at his Oakland home, said she
Mrs. THEODORE Hofer of Carson, New,
who is the guest or n. +. Kelley at
1929 Clinton avenue, Alameda. Her
nephews offered to take her across the
estuary in their automobile, big, two
seated Winton machine rapid and
roomy. Young Taylor was the chauf-
feur for the little excursion and Mrs.
Stewart elected to sit beside him, Mr..
Foote occupying the rear seat.
At 4:10 p. m. the automobile reached
the intersection of Santa Clara avenue
and Bay street moving east on the
former thoroughfare Accounts vary
as to its speed, the estimate of Mr..
Taylor, who held the steering bar, be-
ing ten miles an hour. A delivery
wagon driven by boy approached at
a right angle to- the course of the auto
mobile, moving north on Bay street,
and to avoid it Chauffeur Taylor veer-
ed to the north. Evidently his purpose
was to gain room so that he could cross
ahead of the wagon. Either the turn
was too abrupt or the steering gear
failed to respond. The rapidly moving
machine sped on in it's course to the
left, across gutter and curb, dashng
with great force against an electric
light pole at the northeast corner. So
heavy was the automobile and so high
the speed that the pole, a solid stick
thirty feet high and eighteen inches in
diameter. was cut square off near the
base and crashed down on the house OF
John Hacket,, carrying with it tangle
of wires.
Mrs. Stewart and her nephews were
flung violently out of the machine. The
unfortunate lady struck her head either
on a fragment of the shattered pole or
on the curbing. The impact of the
automobile was so severe that the front
axle was broken, one of the front
wheels was knocked off and the front
seat was carried away.
Help came quickly. Mrs. Stewart was
put on a stretcher improvised from a
window shutter, and carried to the
house of William NJ. Bowers, HOS Santa
Clara avenue, and little later the city
ambulance took her to the sanitarium
on Clinton avenue. She was still alive
when Drs. A. A. Stafford and w. o.
Smith examined her, but it was found
that her injuries We're so extensive and
so serious as to preclude hope for her
recovery Four ribs were broken, with
indications of grave internal injuries
but the wounds on the head were the
most serious. One eye was all but torn
from its socket. DR.. j. Emmett Clark
was called in and the three physicians
exhausted their resources in the effort
to save the dying woman, but to nc
purpose. At 6 o'clock she was dead.
Mr. Foote and Mr.. Taylor, whose in
juries were trivial, consisting of minor
bruises, accompanied Mrs. Stewart to
the sanitarium and remained with her
to the end. Immediately after the
crash she was conscious, but when she
reached the sanitarium at 4:35 p. IN. she
had lapsed into a partial coma from
which she did not rally.