The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-20
KILLED
BY IN
AUTO
Senator Stewards
Wife Is a
Victim.
FAIR TRAGEDY
IS REPEATED
Wife of the Nevada Senator Killed
by the Collision OF Her
Machine.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 1S.-
Mrs. William NJ. Stewart, wife of the
junior United States Senator from
Nevada, was dashed to death yesterday
in Alameda. Her two nephews. Henry
F. Foote, son of w. w. Foote, and II.
B. 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, were 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.
desired to call on her granddaughter,
Mrs Thedore Hofer of Carson, New,
who is the guest of R. E. Kelley at
1929 Clinton avenue, Alameda. Her
nephews offered to take her across the
estuary in their automobile, a 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 it's speed. the Estimate of Mr.
Taylor, who held the steering bar, be-
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, dashing
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
= 80
John Hacket,, carrying with 1t 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
window shutter. and carried to the
house of William NJ. Bowers, 110S 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 II was found
that her injuries were so extensive and
so serious as to preclude hope for her
recovery. -Four ribs We're broken, with
indications of grave internal injuries,
but the wounds on the head were the
most serious. One eye was all but torn
from it's socket. DR.. ]. Emmett Clark
was called in and the three physicians
exhausted their resources in the effort
to save the dying woman, but to no
purpose. At 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. Tumediately after the
crash she was conscious. but when she
reached the sanitarfuu q 4:35 p. IN. she
had Iapsed into partial coma from
which she did not rally.