The sun., 1903-11-01
RUNAWAY KILLS TWO WOMEN,
HORSE FRIGHTENED BY AUTO
TRAMPLES THEN TO DEATH.
Neither Woman IL Identihed-One Was
About %. the Other About 4s-Both
Alive When Picked Up. but Both
Died without Regalnins consciousness.

Two women were knocked down and
killed yesterday afternoon by a runaway
horse at i3Oth street and Eighth avenue.
Both died without being able to tell their
names and neither had been identified at
late hour last night One was about
i5 years old the other about 30.
The horse was hitched to butcher wagon
belonging to Eugene Kahn OF 2453 Eighth
avenue The driver. young Italian named
Cosimo Ciliderto went to the house at l68
West l30th street at about 4 o'clock to de-
liver some meat While he was in the
house, according to witnesses. gasolene
automobile came through the street and,
wnen it got opposite the horse. let out an
extra loud puff
This scared the horse, which started west
at wild gallop. At Eighth avenue were
The two women. People who saw them
sAy that they had apparently just left
northbound elevated train and were cross
ing from the south side of l3oth street.
The horse was going at full speed when
it struck them, and both were knocked fiat
The older woman's back was broken and
her ribs crushed in The younger woman's
skull was fractured and several Of her ribs
broken, and the horses hoofs made sew
eral deep wounds on her body.
While the run away was racirg on through
l30th street several people ran to the spot
where the women lay. Amorg them were
Policema: Brophy, Adolph Robinson OF
6o2 West l25th street, Frederick Ewing of
3O4 West l30h street and James Killen Of
go West 130th street. Neither OF the
wome' moved. but both were alive.
A call for an ambulance was sent to the
j. Hood Wright Hospital. and one quickly
came with Drs. MacFarlane and Westcott,
The women we're rushed TO the hospital.
but the older woman died as she was being
carried into the building aud her COM
panion lived only few minutes longer.
The older woman, almost in her dying
gasp. whispered Mrs Crosby
Both women were neatly but not e1-
pensively dressed. Each had some small
change in her purse. but neither wore any
jewelry or carried any cards or letters.
The younger woman was of medium
height, had dark brown eyes and hair and
dark complexion. She wore black chiffon
hat. tan jacket with lace trimmings. white
lace shirtwaist and black silk skirt. She
had in her purse programme of the formal
opening of a park at SomerviIle, Mass.
With gray. She wore black hat and skirt
and gray waist.
The runaway horse, after knocking the
women down. ran west to St Nicholas
avenue and then turned south. At l2sth
street the animal bumped into an auto.
mobile and at l27t street crashed up against
a lampE ost. getting tangled there hard and
fast.
Policeman Beck sac the runaway hit
the women and later run down St.. Nicholas
avenue. The bluecoat jumped on a south
bound Eighth avenue car aud was running
through i27th street when the runawa y g
dash ended.
The ruha ways young driver wasarrested
WOMEN IN OVERTURNED COACH.
Mrs. Otto Lawrence Of l25 Mercer street
and Mrs. Gustave Mayer Of 3l4 York street
both OF Jersey City, came over to this city
Yesterday in Mrs. Lawrence's coupe to do
some shopping. On their way home last
evening the coure Was run into in Sixth
avenue at Twenty-third street by a north
bound Sixth avenue car.
The coach was overturned and John
Drew, the Goodman, WIGS thrown into the
roa adway The horse started to run, but
a pedestrian grabbed the bride and held
the animal.
The two women in the cab were thrown
about inside the vehicle and held prisoners
there with glass showering about them
Polceu'ea Craven and O'Connel of the
Tenderloin station lifted them out OF the
cab through the door They were unhurt