The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-11
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John sheridan ~ g7n Ia, Seventy seth
street y mu'utmsn m the Amsterdam
avenue lire, narrowly escaped hrlnR
severely handled by n crowd ~ atpui S~'
ahafy mrn and women ~ Eightie,h street
and Amsterdam avenue Yesterday after.
- - after bis ear had run down Mrs
bnflara Ratey, hou-rheeper for Police.
n William Haas ~ the tranlo squad,
and BHns'- tive children, Olga, u years
old, and Willie, \.
HAAS, whose police record is ma excellent
onr. lives 1T i05 Amsterdam avenue. His
wife IL an invalid, and several months ago
went 10 n sanitarium since then Mrs.
Rarey has been looking after the house
hold, which includes. besides the W chill
dren hurt IN the accident yesterday, another
daughter, Emily, ~ years old.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Rarey started
out with the two mi children for
Riverside Park. A. Mrs, Rarsy. holding
one ~ the children 10y either hand, was
crossing Amsterdam avenue at Eighticth
street "A %Routhbuund car came along
Thinking that she could not pass In front
OF Il in time, she drew back toward the
northbound track just a. IA car going north
came along at a good speed.
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In front Of the northbound car. The fender
struck him and hurled him thirty feet
toward the west side OF the avenue.
The force Of the impact broke the grasp
which Mrs. Rarey had on the boys hand,
and the woman herself was thrown against
the side OF the car. She fol- 20 the pave
ment, was caught under tne front trucks
and dra gged sixty feet before the car could
be brought to a stop.
Olga had more presence OF mind than
her brother. She stood stock still when
Mrs. Rarey's HAND was wrenched from
her own, but was knocked down by the
force of the separation and was bruised
about the head and shoulders.
When Sheridan succeeded in bringing
the car to a stop the passengers poured
out of the car and rushed to the assistance
Of the injured. Policeman Hickey of the
West SiXty-eighth street station, with the
as 4istance of some Of the passengers and
the bystanders, took the victims into the
drug store at the corner of Eighty-tirst
street and Amsterdam venue Or, Ward
A. Roff Of 327 Central Park West. who hap
pened to lie in the neighborhood, FASTENED
to the drug store and found both Mrs.
Rarey and the boy Walie unconscious
A hasty examination showed that the
boy was suffering from a fracture at the
base of the skull and a hurry call was sent
last night that the boy had only one chance
in a hundred to recover, Mrs. Rarey will
likely recover Olga, after ha ving her
wounds dressed at the drug store, was taken
by %neighbors to her home.
The crowd that soon collected made a
rush for Sheridan, who mad a dash to the
rear platform Of the car, jumped off and
swung aboard II southbound car just in
time to escape. The crowd then started
to storm the car and made a grab for the
conductor, Michael Dunn Of 273 West
Fifty-second street, but Policeman Hickey,
who 10y this time had been reinforced by
Policeman Conway, succeeded in beating
back the crowd.
The West Sixty-eighth street station
was notified and Policeman Haggerty ven
down TO the car harris at Fiftieth street
and sixth avenue where he found Sheridan.
The motorman said he had no intention Of
running away, but he saw that the crowd
meant business and decided to get away
while there was yet time.