New-York tribune., 1910-07-23
AGED WOMAN KILLED
AS CAR DRAGS SKIRT
Drawn Under Wheels from Plat
form by West End Train
to Swift Death.
VICTIM MRS. JENNIE B0GART
Priest Administers Last Rites
While Firemen and Police
Lift Truck from
Body.

An aged woman, dressed all in black,
with a gold Maltese cross hanging from
a chain about her neck, stood in the
centre Of the narrow roadway on Bath
avenue, between Bay 25th and Bay 26th
streets, Bath Beach, last evening about
I o'clock. The street at that point is
occupied by the two tracks of the West
End trolley line and there is a station in
the middle On either side of the station
platform is a narrow roadway, with
scarcely enough room to allow of the
passage of one vehicle at time.
As the woman stood in the centre of
the road a westbound West End train of
four cars was at the station taking on
passengers. The woman was evidently
waiting for the train to draw out so that
street A second before the train started
she stepped up on the platform. which is
about foot above the level of the road
way, to avoid passing automobile
owned by Tyler Hamilton. Of No. S608
21st street. Bensonhurst
Just as she reached the platform, which
is narrow. and is between the road
way and the tracks. the train started TO
leave the station. In some manner not
yet explained her skirts caught in the
wheels Of the forward car. and she was
thrown heavily to the platform The
train was gathering speed. and the roar
Of the motor drowned her cries for a
moment n an instant her dress was
caught beneath the shoe of the third rail
attachment and her head was gradually
forced under the rear wheels of the last
car
After she had been dragged the full
length of the platform some of the pas
sengers on the train, most of whom we're
women and children, heard the ,voman's
cries for help. and shouted to the con
ductor that some one was being hurt
Patrick McEIdowney. the motorman.
shut of his power. clamped on the air
brakes and brought the train to a stop
within fifteen feet.
When McEIdowney and the conductor
reached the last car they found the
woman's body wedged so tightly beneath
the trucks that It seemed almost impos-
sible TO exuicate it. While they were
trying to get it out some one ran TO st.
Il iiAa1i = AL4t1A liz 1t Day -ptH street. ana
called Father Coppinger. The priest ran
to the station and administered the last
rites to the victim.
The women and children in the train
left the cars and stood about the body of
the woman. despite the danger from the
third rail The crowd was so thick that
the police reserves from the Bath Beach
station We're called out and cleared the
station. Finding it impossible at first to
get the woman's body from beneath the
wheels the police sent in a call for a fire
company on Bay 18th street, and after
half an hours work the body was taken
out
In one hand the woman still held a
sealed and stamped letter addressed to
Miss Van Ness. Of No 1TS South street,
Manhattan. The Maltese cross bore the
letters "W. r. c" and the date 1857
According 10 the police, these letters
mean Women's Relief Corps. on her lctl
hand the woman wore a plain gold we'd
ding ring on the inside Of which vas
engraved. March. 1S69-W. Il. & 10 NJ
+ NJ"
The woman was later identified as Ms.
Jennie Bogart by Mrs John Lee. Of No
PAS Harway avenue, Bath s5eaea. Ms
Rogar Lad teen yjsi.u.g liTs. Eree AMI
vas returning 10 relatives, with ahom
She was staying. in 35tE street, near
FTf,n avr1uo. Mrs. Lee said Mrs Bo-
aart's father 3as a cousin Of the late
John r. 1EachaT. brother Of Clarence H.
Maela. Nr Aogart who died twelve
years $50, a~co~ding to Mrs. Lee, lost a
for 51,t ia Wall Street about eight years
befc:e his death. At one time he was
conueet@d WIKI the District Attorneys
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