The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-15
MRS. WORMSER In A RUNAWAY
DRAGGED DOWN FIFTH AVENUE
IN WRECKED COUPE.
Twas Mighty Exciting Till a Giant Con
Rastlcd With the Horse. Got Grape.
vine Hold and Threw Hinl-Then .Sus-
pender Jack" Lifted Mrs. WOr mser Out.

Mrs. Maurice S. Wormser had a nerve
rackng ride down Fifth avenue yesterday
afternoon in wrecked cab drawn by a
runaway horse.
She wasn't hurt, but she was, naturally,
very much frightened, and the sight of
her standing In the cab and passing through
one peril after another set the walkers and
the riders on the avenue in a state of fear
and excitement for a while.
Mrs. Wormser had gone from her home
at /, Fast Sixty second street to call on
Mrs Isidor Wormser. Jr., at 20 West Fifty
fourth street. Late in the afternoon she
decided to do some shopping, 30 a coupe
was called from Coleman's livery stable
in West ifty-sixth street. John Tenney
vas the driver.
Mrs. Wormser was dressed in black and
wore rope of pearls around her neck
when she entered the cab. She told Ten
nev to drive down to Twenty-third street.
Tenney drove down Fifth avenue at a
lair pace He would have gone faster
only the avenue was too crowded with other
vehicles. At Thirty-seventh street there
were many carriages and wagons going in
either direction. Crossing the avenue was
heavily laden truck. The truck driver
in trying to keep clear Of the carriages,
swerved his horses ~ he was crossing.
Tenney had started across the street d.
rec'y behind the truck. AS he was passing
the truck. the truck driver maneuvred for
better position, This locked rear wheel
Of the truck with one Of the rear wheels
Of the coupe Both vehicles were in motion
and the truck pulled the rear wheels of the
coupe loose from the body.
The hind part Of the coupe dropped to the
asphalt and scared the horse attached to it..
As the amin started to run, only two iron
braces held the rear wheels to the carriage.
which dragged along the roadway.
Mrs. Wormser in the damaged coupe
became excited. Pedestrians could see her
standing and wringing her hands The
driver kept his seat and made desperate
efforts to stop the runaway. The horse in
creased his speed going down the incline
at Thirty-sixth street. Drivers Of other
vehicles made haste to get out Of the way.
Workmen are still! engaged at the Thirty
fourth street and Fifth avenue crossn &
changing the motive power for the cross
town cars. All the Fifth avenue roadway
traffic is confined at this place to wooden
bridge in the centre Of the avenue over the
car tracks. There is space enough on this
bridge for two wagons to pass each other.
On either side OF the bridge the roadway
is torn up between the car tracks to depth
Of two feet. ...
When tho runaway reached tho bridge
hanson cab owned by the New York
Cab Company was upon it, The hanson
was going north and the driver evidently
didn't see the runaway in time to get out
Of the way
The damaged coupe hit the hanson
and turned il over into the ditch. The
driver Of the hanson went sailing through
the air and fell into the ditch unhurt.
Tho runaway got across the bridge in a
hurry. Policeman William Diehl Of the
Broadway squad was standing just south
Of the bridge. Diehl towers above the
average man, and he Is mostly muscle
He grabbed the runaway, and, to the
surprise of the onlookers, threw it to the
ground.
The damaged coupe was also overturned
and Driver Tenney was unse6te''.
A score of men rushed to aid the woman
Imprisoned in the vehicle. The one free
door was opened and she stood up None
of the men seemed able to suggest how she
could get out, and she asked that chair be
ob,pined from the Waldorf.
"Suspender Jack" McGee, ex-cowbov
and policeman, pushed his way through the
crowd and offered his assistance. He
doubled up the cushions in the coupe so
Mrs. Wormser could stand on them. That
raised her considerably higher, and McGee
CALAMITY lifted her to the ground.
After thanking -Suspender Jack she
hurried back to Isidor Wormser, Jr 8 house
and stayed to dinner