Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-18

Afternoon and fatally injured. his death Oc-
curing soon after at the Casualty Hos
pital.
The funeral will occur tomorrow after
noon, with interment in Congressional GEM
etery. The arrangements have NOT been
completed.
The accident occurred only a few hundred
feet from DR. Reynolds home, 31S Mary
land avenue, but 1t was not until about two
hours after he was injured that the mem
bers of his family We're advised of the oc-
currence Mrs. Reynolds and her children
hurried to the hospital as soon they
learned of it, and several of them remained
there until the death occurred, which was
about l O'Clock this morning
William II. Nyman. thirty-nine years Old.
who conducts an automobile repair shop at
9TH and c streets northeast was in the
tomobie that caused the fatal injuries He
was taken to the ninth precinct police sta
tion, to be held until jury OF inquest
passed upon the accident. Acting Coroner
GlaZebrook gave permission for the removal
or the body to an undertaking establish
ment this morning instead of having it
removed to the morgue. He arranged for
the inquest to be he'd at the morgue at
1870 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
Story of the Accident.
DIR. Reynolds was on. his way home from
the pension Office at the time the accident
occurred He boarded a street car on G
street in front of the office, and just before
the car reached the intersection of Sd and
G streets he alighted. Witnesses tod the
police that DIR. Reynolds was engaged in
conversation with another passenger on
the platform and that he continued the
conversation after he alighted from the
moving car, his back being toward the
automobile, which was going east the d.
rection IN which the car was moving. 1t
was a.so stated that the operator of the
automobile had lessened the speed of his
vehicle and was blowing his horn to ad-
wise pedestrians and others of his approach
After the automobile struck DIR. Reynolds
the police were told, It moved only about
eighteen inches. The injured man was un-
conscious when picked up, and. as stated
was conveyed to the Casualty Hospital 1t
was ascertained by the hospital physicians
that the injured man had Sustained a com
pound fracture of his skull, and that he
was suffering from cerebral hemorrhage
and internal injuries.
DR. j. K. Wellington. chief of staff of
surgeons at the hospital, and DIR. w. P. c.
liazen, DIR. Reynolds family physician. per-
formed an operation to relieve the pres
sure upon the brain. but the condition of
the patient was so serious that the opera
ton was of no benefit, the patient remain
ing unconscious until death claimed him.
Mr.. Wyman stopped his automobile as soon
as the accident occurred, as already stated
and remained to do what he could for the
injured man. Mr.. Frederick r Mitchell
who happened to be near Sd and C streets
when the accident occurred, assisted Mr.
Nyman to remove the injured man to the
hospital Acting Coroner Glazebrook was
consulted by the police and members of the
was at the request of the latter that he di-
rected the removal of the remains to the
undertaking establishment instead of to the
morgue.
Statement by Eyewitness
One witness to the accident-Reuben NJ
Harlow, former polceman-tells a story
of the affair entirely different from what
some of the other witnesses stated to the
police. He denies that Dr. Reynolds left
the car before it had come to "A stop and
places the blame upon the man In the auto
mobile for the accident
THE automobile came along c street by
the side of the car Harlow told Star
reporter this morning, and 1t killed the
first man who alighted from the car Dr.
Reynolds left the car from the front plat
form after the car had come to a stop and
the horn of the automobile was footed in
his face. Had the automobile kept a safe
distance away from the side of the car or
had 1t been stopped when it appeared that
the car was going to stop at the crossing
the accident would never have happened"
Harlow said he was riding on the car at
the time the accident happened and wit
messed the affair. One woman passenger
on the car, he said, came near falnting,
and she would have fallen had not the con-
ductor caught hold of her. He is anxious
that the police shall find as many of the
passengers AS possible and have them at
the inquest as witnesses
DR.. Reynolds Literary Career.
DIR. Reynolds was borr at DansviIIe. Iiv-
lngston county, n. V, s!xty-one years ago
being son of DIR. and Mrs. Allan Reynolds
| He served in the 9TH and 18th Wisconsin
| Light Infantry from 1861 to 1865, and has
| since taken an active interest in the affairs
! of the Grand Army Cf the Republic having
| been commander of Lafayette Post He was
| also a member of the Sons of the Ameri-
| can Revolution; the Society of Beaux Arts
| Senlis, France; of The American Historical
! Society of Dallas, Tex; the ROYAL Geo
| graphical Society of Copenhagen Denmark.
! and Lisbon, Portugal. and the Virginia His
1 torical Society of Richmond The doctor
| was the founder and first secretary of the
! Anthropological Society of this city
DIR. Reynolds was the author of the pre-
| historic Remains In the Valleys Of the Po-
| tomac and South Shenandoah" which was
| Translated into Italian by Prof Rodolfo
| Lanciani of the Royal University of Rome
| and published In Ravenna in 1888 He also
| wrote the eulogy of Count Ercalani and the
| Memoir of the Pre-Columbian Shell
| Mounds of Newberg. Nd and the Shell
| Fields of the Potomac and Wicomico Riy-
| ers." In 1889 he wrote The Mystic Castle
! OF Carbonek.' a serial romance, published
| IN Wisconsin.
Wins Recognition.
| His work won him distinguished recog-