The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-27
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WAY WAY TO 00CHURCH. II.
Miss vinnia a limerick
Struck by a Seven h
Pines Car.
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CLASS# HORRlFlEDi
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Coming to Meet Her AS Was
Their Custom, They Found
Her Y conscious BY, the
Roadside Absorbed
in Thought, Didn't 8
Hear Car.

On her way to Highland Springs
Methodist Church to teach her Sunday
school class yesterday morning, and
evidently thinking over the subject lesson
for the morning, MISS yinnia Agnes
limerick, OF Highland Springs. y vas struck M
by car N o. 143, OF the Seven Pines line,
carried on the fender for about thirty
feet, and thrown few feet from the
track on the south side, where she lay
unconscious until friends rushed to- her
aid and picked her up. &. q 5-t
Tho accident occurred just o short
distance from the Office Of Dr. G.. T.
Collins. who Is away on his vacation at
present and whose place 10 being sur
piled BY Dr.. r. S. Fitzgerald, 81 No;
27O6 East Broad Street. s45. IA IL ii
# Miss Limerick mad passed BY Dr.
CollIns's home, and there engaged In "a
few minutes conversation with Dr.. Fitz-,
gerald. i5s Ks Gf5 VIZ ssss
5 She was In her usual happy mood. and
asked DR.. Fitzgerald Scheerily$i II he would
go to & Sunday school. He replied that
he would go in a few mimi tes, and then
went TO answer the telephone. sS5a
3s Miss limerick proceeded II on her way,
taking her route along the car track.
Fifteen feet ahead OF her was Mr.. 2 s.
Rende, q store keeper Of s3 Hig ghland
Springs, who was also h on his way to
Sunday school. tsS RI }}8SG. 5s5
Was in Deep Thought.
Miss limerick was evidently In deep.
thoug ht, for che had Ener head bent down.,
ass Il a she were Il pondering over some
subject Car No. 143 came up behind
ana. according to the major Of the
Witnesses, the lnotor1nan began ringing
his bell and whistling violently, Mr..
Rende moved from the line, but the
unfortunate young woman kept straight
on between the tracks. The car struck
her squarely. She fell backwards In the
fender, whidh carried her about thi:ty
from the track, 53S
The car was bound for Richmond, and
was going at the usual rate OF speed
just before the accident occurred. Ne
Several eye-witnesses to the accident
testified to- the fact that the motorman.
e. J. Austin, gave violent warning with
n his bell and whistle, and that when
I he saw, too late. that the accident was
unavoidable, he reversed his current and
stop, however, and 1t slid for fifteens
feet before striking Miss Limerick. The
motorman was unable to halt 1t for about
125 or, LEO feet after reversing his current
and applying his brakes, and 1t went
some distance after hurling the body OF
tho young woman from, the fender. The
umbrella which Miss limerick was carry
Ing. flew up and struck the motorman in
the face. }. rs she fell in the fender.
Unconscious to Death.
5A "A small hoy ran into DR.. Fitzgerald's
Office and told him that O lady had been
hurt by a car. and the physician imme-5
dlately rushed out. He found Miss
limerick upconscious and had her carried
into his Office. An examination OF the
wounds showed that her left leg was
broken In two places Just above the
ankle. that her left eye was badly cut
and bruised, and that she had suffered a!
fracture OF the base Of the ekull. It wa 8.
tho last wound that evidently caused her
death, said Dr. Fitzgerald, as It proba bly,
also produced a hemorrhage Of the BRAIN.
The physician worked over her heroically,5 I
but the young woman never regained COM
sciousness, and died at 1887 o'clock, nm
hour and seventeen minutes after the
accident occurred. ,I5y l5I 5
Everybody in Highland Springs was soon
on the scene OF the accident, and for n
while there was much confusion, Mo-
torman Austin and Conductor F. G..
Swank Immediately left the car and broke
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