The sun., 1914-08-16
THROWN FROM BUS, I
WOMAN Is KILLED
Mrs. Hannah Van Duzen, Tifh
Avenue Passenger. Hit by
Altman Awning.
GIRL ALSO STRUCK BY II
Driver Of Big Motor Vehicle !,
Forced Near Curb by E>-
'cayatiOns in street.

Fifth avenue automobile bus carr,.
ing about twenty-five passengers o, IN,
top swung into East Thirty nth strse,
at Q 10 O'Clock last night past the .,o,.
OF y. Altman & Co. The car was e,ia1,
too near the steel and glass awning sps.
pended from the entrancn TO tho rp-h
and Mrs Hannah Van Duzen, so vaa,s
old. wife OF Hiram Van Duzen, a retired
rear estate dealer Of 142 East Flffy..o,.
ond street was struck on the chin nv IN.
awning. hurled from her seat to In. sid,
walk and killed
Miss Florence Klinger is years old n,
2427 Seventh avenue, also was s,ruc.
rendered unconscious and was saved fror
further injury by the alertnoss ~ hs,
escort. She received contusions OF IN.
fractured skull
The driver Of the bus, Philip Cook. a,
116 East Nnety-eighth street was hsla
by the police at the request Of Coroner
Healy. The driver insists that he VA,
forced to go close to the curb by a taxicah
that stood in the centre of East Thirty.
fifth street.
The bus. which ordinarily runs IN ana
down Fifth avenue. has been compelled
TO go OF its regular course becaus. n,
excavations being made in Fifth avenu,
for the new high pressure system. The
thoroughfare is torn up between Thirty.
ifth street and Twenty-slxth street. Th4
buses swing to the east through Thirty.
fifth street and go down Madison avenue
for distance.
Cooks car WAS fairly well crowded
Mrs. Van Duzen was accompanied by her
daughter. Mrs w. Hnman. who had
begged her mother to go out for an
airing.
She left at home her husband, who Is
sc years old and confined to bed through
illness.
AS the bus swung into East Thirty.
nth street the driver saw the taXicab
and swrrved to the southwark The
awning. which is about fifty feet from the
corner, apparently did not attract the
attention OF the driver. II does not over.
hang the street but apparently as the
car was swung toward the sidewalk Il
careened slightly and thus the passengers
sitting on the right side were threatened
by the overhanging structure.
The danger was roticed by passengers
seated in the front part. Several
juNped up ard screamed. Mrs Van
second seat from the rear, the elder lady
on the outside
The framework of steel or bronze
| caught her right on the chin. She was
| lifted out Of her seat, swung against
/ Miss Klinger. and then held suspended
| on the awning for a fraction Of q Sec
/ ond. Finally the body dropped TO the
| sidewalk
Miss Klnger was rolled to one side
She grabbed frantically into the air ard
caught the edge of the awninS only To he
hurled back unconscious into the arms
OF her secort. whose name the police
/ did not learn.
As the bus scraped along under tn
awning the other passengers were jammed
together in the narrow aisle. Men. women
! and children were tossed to ami fro
screaming and hysterical. One or two
made frantic strides down the steep
twisting, narrow stairway. Cook. who
had no idea of what was happening over
head. finally brought his car TO stop
about twenty-five feet from the spo,
where the accident occurred. Instantly
hundreds OF persons, attracted by ne
screams. gathered in the street.
Patrolman Quirk called the police -e.
serves from the West Thirtieth street
station to keep the crowd back. He also
summoned an ambulance DR.. Stevens
% the New York Hospital pronounced
. IL
first aid treatment to Miss Klinger urged
her to go to the hospital She declined
and was placed In n taxicab and taken
nome in semi conscious condition.
Mrs. Hnman became hysterical and rp.
uuired the doctors attention. She In
sisted, however on remaining with the
body Of her mother. which lay on thu
sidewalk for an hour waiting for a police
patrol wagon. When Coroner Healy H.
nally arrived. he detained the bus driver
and asked several witnesses to go TO the
West Thirtieth street station. whore he
( conducted preliminary inquiry lie ar
dered the arrest OF the driver on a tcch
ncal charge Of homicide, but paroled him
in charge of an officer of the Fifth Ave
nue. Coach Company, owning the vehicle
Hearing vii! be to-day at noon.
At the company's offices II was sai1
that Mrs, Van Duzen's death was ihe
frst one resulting from an accident 70
bus during the eight years that they
have been operated.