Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-08-18
Death Of
Mrs. Klenlr1le
DRIVER OF AUTO MIST00K CUL.
VERT FOR BRIDGE-TOP.
Piled OVER
rhe Chronicle of Adg 10 says:

The eighth auto fatality in eight
days, the killing of Mrs. Annie Klein.
me by machine dropping off the end
of a culvert and turning turtle four.
teen miles down the county road, near
Uncle Toms Cabin, about 10. 80
O'Clock on Sunday night, seems to
have been the result of mistakng an
unusually long diagonal sweep of
planked culvert for an expected cross.
road, and turning slowly to the left
end following the supposed, road to a
sudden drop Of seven feet into dry.
sandy creek bed. sparsely covered
with light growth of willows about
the height of a mans head.
The car, nve.seated Pullman.
bought year ago by Its owner and
driver, was descending slight grade
at a speed of less than six miles an
hour, and upon reaching the level of
the very long culvert turned to the
left, still more slowly, and then at the
brink of the unguarded end almost
stopped with applied brakes, toppled
straight down. rested on the front end
of the radiator, chung at the rear for
TN instant to the edge OF the culycrt,
and then Topped on over, with wheels
In the air.
Caught Under Tonneau.
The two occupants Of the back seat,
a boy and an old man, were flung
gently out into the willows, which act.
ed as a sort of cushion and kept the
back of the tonneau from reaching
the ground. The driver Topped out
unpinioned into depression in the
sandy bottom, and the lone woman,
who was on the front seat, possibly
had tried to fling herself free, because
the outside of the seat rim rested
heavily and squarely across her chest.
The running board was sufficiently
high from the ground for the men to
place their shoulders under and lit
IT, so as to enable the others to ex.
tricate the unconscious woman.
She was borne across the interven.
ing vacant field, about 100 yards only,
to Uncle Toms Cabin. where there
happened to be trained nurse. Two
physicians arrived promptly. but too
late to render any aid, as the victim
was fatally crushed and did not sur
vive more than Il quarter of an hour.
boy living In the neighborhOod
said he saw the machine go slowly Off
the end and stand for an instant al.
most on its head before Hopping over
While the machine was in the creek
this boy spied roadster coming down
the incline and actually turning to
make the same error when he warned
it. Then some one Game and placed
two lanterns at the ends of the de.
ceptive culvert.
Nearly in front of Uncle Toms Cab.
in, on the main.travcled road, u new
bridge Is being built. Both approaches
to this obstacle are provided with
temporary barriers to warn traffic
aside. So conveyances and autos turn
aside Il block to take the two-block
parallel course to the northward,
crossing the same little dry creek.
Wolfe's error was In mistaking the
culvert for the crossroad by which he
was to return to the main avenue on
his way back to San Francisco.
Clarence N. Wolfe, driver of the
auto, lives in fiat at 2l03 Howard
street. over corner grocery, and Is
connected with the Wolfe Lumber and
Hardware Company at 2299 Folsom
street. He is medium sized, dark and
single and about 3S years of age. Liv.
ing In the same fiat with him were
Mrs. Annie Klemme, 81 years of age,
whose husband resides in Honolulu,
and Mrs. Klemme's fiitcen.year-old
son, Harry, Il student at the Mission
Grammar School Saturday evening
these three, with Mr.. Hughes, about
GO years of age, who resides at OnOn-
daga avenue and Mission street, went
to Il private place on n tcn-acre orch
ard near Redwood City, and there
spent the night.
Wolfe said he did not know Hughes
first name or anything about him, and
he also declined yesterday to give any
information as to the business of
Klemme in Honolulu.
Wolfe was uninjured. Hughes re-
ceived a scratch over the left eye. and
young Klemmc was also slightly
scratched on the forehead.
Mrs. Klemme has n mother and two