New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-27
WOMAN KILLED ON IL" "
Guard Slammed Gate-She Clung
on, and Guard Rail Hit Her.

When the crowd at its greatest on the
stations Of the Sxth-ave. line of the elevated
road just before o'clock last evening, young
woman horribly killed while trying
board a train the uptown side at the
Eighteenth-st station. With crushed skull and
body almost entirely denuded, the body was
first seen by man who was walking under
meath the structure at Twentieth-st.. and who
saw limb hanging between two of the ties.
It appeared that the young woman had tried
to board the train after the guard the rear
platform of the third car from the front had
closed the gates. 1t is supposed that in terror
at being able TO get neither on nor off the NOV
ing train she clung to the gate until brushed off
by the guardrail at the northern end Of the sta
ton platform. Then it is supposed that her
clothing caught in such way to drag her.
feet foremost, to a point above Twentieth-st
when she fell.
The police did not know up to a late hour
the men in charge of the train, the guard who
slammed the gate or the number Of the train.
One story that of r. H. Loan of No. 24S
West Seventeenth-st. Mr.. Loan had alighted
from the train at Eighteenth-st. As he did So
a young woman dressed in a long raglan coat
| came hurriedly up the platform and pushed her
| way through the waiting crowds. Ihe train
was already jammed, and there appeared no
| room for another person, so that when the last
| piLe Nio W lS44tu 10 dllBnI at EIBnleenLn-St mad
| left the cars, the guards slammed the gates and
| gave the signal TO go ahead. Mr. Loan sup
| posed she had taken her place with the others
| on the platform, and was waiting for the next
| train
Daniel O'Connor. of No. 40 West Thrtieth-
st, walking along Sixth-ave discovered the ac-
| cident. The gateman at the Eightenth-st sta
| ton busy. and would not listen to O'Con-
nor. who told him OF the accident After six
I l-z
point indicated by OConnor. and the body was
found. O'Connor had seen the accident from
the Eighteenth-st station. The girl. in falling.
he declared caught the lower ironwork of the
/ gate, and clung to it until finally dislodged
| What was left Of the clothing appeared to
show that the young woman had been in only
moderate circumstances. perhaps an employe Of
| a department store
| A woman who said she was Mrs. Alice Cava-
naugh Of No 43 East Nineteenth-st. looked at
| the body later and made an Identification
with which the police are almost entirely salts
fed. but which she has no faith in. Mrs Cava-
| naugh said that friend of hers, Minnie Kelch
| arrived at her house yesterday from Boston.
| seeking employment, and she sent her to a large
| department store IN Eighteenth-st Mrs Cava-
\ naugh about o'clock, was at Nineteenth-st
and Sixth-ave. and though she did not see who
was killed saw the accident. Later, reading of
| H. the description of the clothing seeming to
| tally with that worn by Miss Kech, she went
| 10 look at the body. AT the undertaker's Mrs
| Cavanaugh identified a waist. two hand painted
| buttons. and n ring with an m" on It, as being
| like those the young woman wore. Hair. eyes
and complexion also tailed
| is there a mole on her chin?" Mrs. Cava-
| naugh asked.
| No mole was found. Similarly there was nc
| gold filed tooth which Mrs. Cavanaugh be
leved Miss Kelch possessed. A gold watch wa:
| found on the body and a locket. These Mrs
| Cavanaugh could not Identify
| David e. Ostro OF No. GOO LenoX-aYe., en-
Twenty third-st. the other eyewitness, said las
| night that he had noticed that young woman
| WAS trying get in after him. Her BODY pro
jecteG beyond the train and she mad an eN
| tremely insecure foOthold. The gate was no
| closed and could not be closed on account o.
the pressure Of so many people. The tram mac
| gone about a block and half when he heard
| cry, and turned just in time to see the Dody O
| the young woman strike against the guard RAJ
| OF the structure and rebound, apparently uh
| der the wheels OF the cars. Those who. like him
| had seen her fall. shouted to the guard, but n
| was powerless to move. j1mmed in as ne wai
| he got out on the platform. with several others
| There was much excitement, but apparently NJ
| one sent back.
| CoTo3er Scholer gave permit for the remoVa
| OF the body. and ordered the police TO investi
gate and find the motorman and conductor o
| the train and If they thought necessary, t
make arrests.