New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-16
SUNDAY CROWD
SEES WOMAN
KILLED BY BUS
Vehicle Runs Her Down in
Broadway as She Steps
from Behind a Taxi.
RIDGEWOOD AUTOIST
DIES AFTER ACCIDENT
Kindly Chauffeur Gives Man a
Ride-Dashes Away When
.SWerve Throws Guest.


During the mid-afternoon traffic on
Broadway yesterday a well dressed
woman stepped from behind a taxicab
at Sixty-seventh Street, directly into
the path of a bus. She was knocked
down and instantly killed. Hundreds
of Sunday afternoon strollers saw the
disaster. Policemen and Michael Egan.
chauffeur of the bus, had trouble keep
ing back the crowd while they dragged
the woman from beneath the wheels.
She was carefully and painstakingly
dressed in a light white gown and a
black velvet hat. Her height was
feet inches and she weighed about
l20 pounds. Police who are working
TO establish her identity think che was
about forty-fve years old.
Joseph r. Bracket. twenty-three
years old. we'll known IN Ridgewood,
y. j., society, died after his automobile
turned over near Allendale, n. j., yes
terday The young man was alone in
his car, and no one saw the accident.
Richard Schuatt. of Ridgewood, an en-
ploye of Brackets father, found the
machine bottom up at the side OF the
road Its driver was lying twenty feet
away. He died few hours later in the
Paterson Hospital.
There is a steep grade on the Allen
dale road at this point. II is believed
that Bracket went down this at high
speed and lost control of his car on
the curve below. The young man was
a lieutenant Of the 5th Regiment, \. G.
n. j., and a member of the Ridgewood
Country Club
A motorcycles riding on the wrong
side of Twentieth Street and taxicab
chauffeur driving on the wrong side OF
Third Avenue collided at the corner
last night Both machines were badly
damaged, and A. Aiieds. the motor
cyclist, was cut about the fac. Will
lam Braudgun. OF l5G West Thirty
first Street, the chauffeur. was unin-
iured. Both were arrested on the
charge of violating trafhc regulations.
Elizabeth Adams, twenty-three years
old. of ll5 Washington Place, was in
jured near Springfield. Long Island.
Yesterday, when the car in which she
was riding with Patrick Murray, Of ALB
East Fifty.third Street, collided with
machine driven by Charles Surtez, of
100 Glen Street, Brooklyn. The young
woman was taken to the Jamaica Hos
pital suffering from a fractured knee.
bruises and shock. No one else was
hurt, although both machines were
wrecked.
Four men in an automobile escaped
serious injury yesterday when their
machine turned upside down near New
ton, ~ J. The steering gear broke
while the car was making fair rate of
speed 1t skidded and turned over.
throwing all Of its passengers out.
Roddy Walker. the chauffeLr, was
badly cut about the head. and was
taken TO his home. in Newton The
other three were only shaken up.
Patrick Flanagan, of 134 East Nine
ty-sixth Street, was riding on the
front seat with the chauffeur OF
taxicab on 120th Street yesterday,
when the car swerved to avoid running
down a child. Flanagan was thrown
to the street, landing on his head.
The chauffeur continued on his way.
After deep scalp wound on the mans
head had been dressed, Flanagan told
the police that he knew the driver of
the car only by sight.
Thrown twenty feet by an automo-
bile at Fourth Avenue and Eighteenth
Street last night, Miss Catherine Os-
borne, pupil nurse at the Lying-ln
Hospital, was taken to the hospital
with a possible fractured skull. Miss
Sidred Gorgensen, another nurse, who
was with Miss Osborne, was not injured.
Isidor Goodman, of 405 Fifth Street,
driver of the car, was arrested for fe-
lonous. assault. He declared the
young woman stepped into the path of
the car Miss Osborne's home is in
Montreal, Canada.
Returning from a wedding at Chad
wicks, n. j.. to Manasquan. n. j.. last
night, five women and three men were
flung into a ditch. in which gasolene,
ignited by the headlight Of their
wrecked automobile. was blazing. Will
lam Carmen, owner of the car. was
driving. Between Point Pleasant and
Bay Head he skirted the ditch too
closely. and the machine went over the
bank. The men pulled the women to
safety, but not before enc of them had
received painful burns on the arm and
the dresses of two others had been set
afre.
Numerous other motor accidents oc-
CURED in and near the city yesterday.
In most cases the victims were only
slightly injured.