New-York tribune., 1903-03-02
MOTHER AND BABES HURT
One Nay Die Unkno1Cn DriUer'
Denounced as C0zcard.

At Eighth-ave. and Forty-seventh-st- Mrs
Thomas Walsh. of No. 446 West Forty -ninth-st..
and her children, girls OF two and four years,
were run down by a team Of horses and car
riage, which rolled over them, injuring all three.
yesterday Lucy the twO-year-oid child may
die in Roosevelt Hospital The driver Of the
carriage escaped, three men who held him let
ting him CO.
Mrs. Walsh and the children were on their
way home. Lucy was in n baby carriage. which
Mrs. Walsh pushing. while she led the other
child. Helen. by the han1
She hurried across the street, but when near
the curb the other side noticed the team of
brown horses and the carriage near her She
looked at the driver. but he did not pay any at
tention and kept Mrs. Walsh afterward
said the man saw her and that he ought to have
turned out. as she had the children. When Mrs.
Walsh that the horses were not being pulled
in, and that she must inevitably be run down.
she deliberately stepped alongside the baby car
riage so she would lie between 1t and the
horses and she kept Helen on the other side CT
the carriage
The horses struck Mrs. Walsh first. she In
tended they should, and she was thrown over on
the baby's carriage. The horses seemed to
trampIe all of them. and men stood still and
women shrieked as they saw horses and carriage
apparently roll over the woman and children.
Mother and children lay in the street in a
heap as If dead. bleeding. and with clothing be-
draggled- The horses kept If the driver
had not seen the accident. Three men held him
up. while fourth, Mr.. Allen, OF No. $50 West
Forty -fourth-st.. went to the aid Of the woman
and children.
Mrs. Walsh got to her knees and Allen helped
her, but she Immediately reached for the chill
dren- Lucy was still. Mrs. Walsh said in a
whisper:
II wonder"
Then she looked at Helen. who was moving
Her hands were lacerated.
Dr. Nillken, hastily called, arrived with a
Roosevelt Hospital ambulance. He stopped to
look at Mrs Walsh, but she said:
See Lucy
Lucy had a broken right leg above the knee a
cash in her head. and her face was torn in sev-
shoulder was much bruised Her face. too was
lacerated. and one Of the carriage wheels had
run over her right hand gashing 1t. The cleans
ing OF her injuries must have caused her pain,
put sne did not seem to mind 1t, for she was
trying to soothe Lucy, whom the doctor had
restored to consciousness, and Helen.
Mrs. Walsh and Helen we're taken home, Po-
iceman Becraft, of the West Forty-seventh-st
station, arrived from Forty -second-st. after the
carriage had been driven away. Mr.. Allen said
he saw three men holding the horses. but that
they had let them go. and neither thev nor the
driver or carriage could be traced.
The driver had plenty of room" Mrs Walsh
said. and 1t was cowardly not to turn out. He
was the only man driving on the avenue at that
point He ought to have given me, with the
two children, some chance. but he came right
on
Mr.. Allen said the driver was. In his belief
cowardly In his action. as he must have seen
the woman and children and should have given
room to them. since he the only one with a
vehicle there.