The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-13
DEATH AT TROLLEY CROSSING
JOCKEY MICHAELSS SISTER
KILLED AND MOTHER HURT.
Outnt OF Sim on Michieis. who Sells Things
at Gravesend Track. Smashed BY Car
While H0mewsrd Bound-ThrOwn
Out with wife and Three Daughters.

Out With Wife and Three Daughters.
Simon Michaels, who has the fruit and
peanut concession at all the local raoetracks
and Is the father OF Harry Michaels, the
jockey, closed up his stands at the Graves
end track after the last race yesterday,
got his three daughters and wife together
and then started fpr their home at Home
crest, a mile and half from the track.
Michaels and his family drove to the track
every day In delivery wagon in which they
carried the days supply Of fruit and other
eatables they sell at the track.
Michael's wife, aged 40; Essie, "a years
old; Sara, 22 years old, and Sadie, 20 years
old. the three daughters, are as well known
to racetrack followers as either Simon or
his son. the jockey, Mrs Michaels and her
daughters have been the chief aids Of
Michaels ever since he began to do business
at the racetracks. With their help he has
built up a fortune.
Business wasn't good at the track yester-
day. because the crowd was not 30 large as
usual, but that didn't affect the spirits Of
the Michaels family. They went from the
track laughing and testing with the other
late stayers. Michaels drove. and his wife
and daushte7 sat in the body of tho covered
wagon.
At Avenue u and Coney Island avenue
Michaels didn't hesitate to cross when
he saw trolley approaching, bound for
the island All cars are supposed to stop
at this crossing. and Michaels supposed that
the approa ching car would do so. 1t was
going swiftly, as the cars all do along Coney
Island avenue and as Michaels drove on to
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frantic efforts to stop. II he put on the
brake it did not decrease the speed OF the
car to any appreciable extent. The car
hit both the horse and the wagon.
The horse was killed outright and sepa =
rated from the wagon. which was broken in
two, and the five occupants were thrown
into the roadway. Sadie Michaels was
thrown the farthest. Michaels and the
rest OF the family lay stunned and uncon-
scious where they fell.
Near where the accident occurred is the
home of Mrs. James Blute, who was enter
tanning friends at dinner when she heard the
era sh and the screams that followed it, She
and her guests ran out to the roadway to do
what they could for the injured. The
conductor and the mot Of the cal and
it's three passengers got to work and picked
I'D the Michaelses and laid them side by
side on the grass. They were all in bad
shape but the father.
No time was lost in telephoning to Coney
Island for an ambulance, and II arrived
quickly with DR.. Clay. He looked over the
injured and said that Sadie Michaels could
not live. Her spine was broken and her
skull fractured. She died twenty-five min
utes after the ambulance surgeon arrived.
Mrs. Michaelss arms were fractured and
she had many cuts and contusions. She
regained consciousness after she was put
into the ambula nee, but her condition was
such that she was not told of her daughter &
death. Fssie Mchaels's right leg was
broken and Sara received internal injuries,
The father was bruised. He went to the
hospital with his wife and two daughters,
The dead girls body was left lying where
she died until Coroner Williams gave per-
nit for its removal Michaels and his two
daughters insisted that the mother be Kept
in igorance Of what had occurred until she
showed some improvement.
The accident brought out the reserves
of the Sheepshead Bay stat ton. William
Hansen Of IS Lynch street, Brooklyn, was
the motorman of the car, and the conductor
was James j. Wall Of 1871 franklin street,
Brooklyn. Hansen said he tried to stop
the car on the right side of the crossing,
as he knew he should have done. but that
he failed as the raj lis were wet and slippery
and the brake of the car didn't seem TO
work properly. Hansen and the conductor
we're locked up