New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-13
WOMAN KILLED WHEN !
CAR SMASHES TAX|CAB
Daughter and Sister Escape
Injury, but Chauffeur Is
Seriously Injured.
SKIDDED IN WET STREET
Thrown in Front of Madison
Avenue Trolley, Which Hit Cab
with Force Enough to Send
It Forty Feet.


street, her daughter, Dorothy. a student
at Barnard College. and Miss Eva Buck
ingham, Mrs. Morrisons sister. entered
a taxicab at their home last evening.
preparatory to attending a church SER
vice downtown. The cab was in charge
of Louis Albert. of No. S73S Bay 18th
street, Bath Beach.
The car had gone only as far east as
18th street and Madison avenue when
the chauffeur attempted TO make a short
turn to the south The wet condition
of the streets caused the wheels Of the
automobile to skid on the asphalt. and
instead of making the turn as he had in
tended, Albert found that his machine
was being carried clear over to the
southbound tracks of the Madison ave-
nue. car line.
Albert had just time 10 notice that a
south bound trolley car was bearing
down upon him as he attempted TO
steer his machine clear of the rails Be-
fore he could again gain control Of his
steering wheel. however. the heavily
laden trolley car smashed into the taxi
cab. sending it fully forty feet down the
tracks.
Taxicab Completely Wrecked.
The taxicab was smashed into kin
ding wood and Albert was thrown TO
the street and received fractured skull
Mrs. Morrison. who was sitting between
her daughter and her sister. was jamrned
up against the front seat Of the taxicab
and was terribly mutilated. her ribs be-
ing fractured and her head deeply cut
by splinters and flying glass She died
at 10:40 o'clock in the German Hospital
Miss Morrison and Miss Buckingham.
who were leaning forward at the time Of
the collision. were not badly injured, but
were suffering so severely from shock
that they We're both kept at the German
Hospital
Patrolman Murphy. of the East 67th
street station, who was standing at 18th
street at the time of the accident. heard
the crash and hastened TO the scene
With the aid of some of the passengers
from the Madison avenue car. he man
aged to rescue Miss Morrison and Miss
Buckingham from the twisted mass OF
wreckage. Murphy hailed passing tax
icab and placed Mrs. Morrison and her
daughter and Miss Buckingham in it.
The machine was then driven at top
speed to the German Hospital. at Park
avenue and 18th street. where Mrs Nor
rison was placed at once on the oper-
ating table.
Another taxicab was pressed into ser
vice by Murphy. and in this machine AL
bert. the chauffeur, was placed and
rushed to the Presbyterian Hospital.
. Dr. Howard Adler. the house surgeon
at the German Hospital. worked over
Mrs Morrison in the hope Of saving her
life. She was so severely injured. how
ever, that she never regained conscious
ness. and finally died from hemOrrhage
of the lungs and concussion of the brain
At the Presbyterian Hospital the sur
geons said that Albert's condition was
grave.
Collision Was Unavoidable.
After sending the injured TO the hos
pital PatroIman Murphy made an in
vestigation of the accident, in an effort
TO fix the blame for the collision. The
motorman of the Madison avenue car
said that he was not to blame. as the
rear wheels of the taxicab swung wide
and threw the rear of the machine d.
rectly in the path of his car. The skid
ding of the taxicab was so sudden that
the motorman had no time to prevent
the crash, he said. although he applied
his brakes with all his strength. Albert
did not sound his horn as he turned
from 18th street into Park avenue. ac-
cording to the motorman-
The Madison avenue car was well
filled with passengers. and many OF
them were slightly injured by broken
glass and we're thrown from their seats
because of the sudden stopping of their
car. They all expressed surprise at the
distance the taxicab had been hurled by
the force of the collision. and accord
ing TO the police of the East 61th street
station the trolley car must have been
running al great speed II was more
than fifteen minutes before the trolley
tracks were cleared of the wreckase.
No arrests were made. although the
police took the names of the motorman
and conductor of the Madison avenue
car The motornnan was Michael J.
Casey and the conductor Peter Coyle-
The Coroner's office was informed of the
death of Mrs Morrison and the critical
condition of Albert
When Miss Morrison and Miss Buck
ingham learned of the death of Mrs.
Morrison they became hysterical. and
the shock so Frustrated both women that
they had TO be treated by the surgeons
at the hospital Miss Morrison said her
mother was forty-fve years old