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Show CH8LD SS KILLED . BYSTREET CAR Thirteen-year-old Nellie Romyn, Riding a Bicycle, Collides With Twenty-fifth Street Oar and Is Instantly Killed 'Little One Vas Thrown Under the Wheels Parents Distracted. Nellie Romyn, thirteen-year-old daughter of Cornelius Romyn, met instant in-stant death by colliding with a Twenty-fifth street car at"about S o'clock this morning. The littlo glil had been sent on an errand and was riding a bicycle. Sho collided with the street car at the Intersection of Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street and Madison avonue, tho Romyn homo being at 2861 Madison avenuo, a little more than three blocks from where the accident occurred. The men In charge of tho street car, Charles E. Ford, motorman, and Charles E. Peterson, conductor, In describing de-scribing the auful accident state that they passed tho west-bound car a few longths west of tho Madlfiou crossing and that their car was Just "drifting" for the stop at Madhon avenue when the, girl came along tho west sidewalk, t)f Madison avonue on a bicycle nnd struck tho street car on aio side near the front trucks. Tc child was thrown under the car nnd crushed to death. Motorman Ford hoard the child cry "Help me'" and he rushed from his car and picked up her UfeleBs body, which was lying away from the track at tho rear of the car. Mr. Ford says ho does not think the enr truck passed over tho child's body, but that the littlo one was caught' nnd crushed. "Just after passing tho wo6tbound car, a few car lengths from Madison avenue,' said Motorman Ford," I noticed no-ticed the little girl coming along tho west sidewalk of Madison avenue going go-ing north. I sounded the gong and, merely drifted the car for tho stop at the crossing and had no thought but that the child saw the car and would 'either stop her wheel or turn around the car to the roar. In an instant however, I noticed that she was riding rid-ing a man's wheel with a high framo and that sho could touch tho pedals with her feet only as they came around to the top and that it was possible that sho could not control the machine 1 applied the brakes Instantly. In-stantly. 1 did not feel any compact with the wheel but heard tho girl cry for help. I rushed through the gate from the car nnd picked up the lifeless body at the roar of the car and hold the child In my arms as sho breathed her last. It was an awful trial to' me and It was all I could do to stand It The girl wan dead beforo the doctors could rIvo her aid." There were but few pooplo on the car. one being Miss Maude Tabor, Instructor In-structor In the h'gh school, but thero were eye witnesses who toll about the same story as that glvon by the i conductor. S H. Hendorshot of tho ! Troy Laundry saw tho accident and ho says that the girl was riding a hl cycle along Madison avenue when lifT whcol collided with the 6lde 6f the , car and that flhfc Was thrown under tho car. Ho says the car was moving elowly, apparently stopping for tho crossing. Miss Tabor says she did not see tho accident but felt a sudden lurch of the car, It stopping abruptly. Sho rushed out of tho car to bco what the troublo was and snw tho body of tho girl that had been crushed, in tho nrtns of some of the carmen. She said that the conductor looked from the car window when tho motorman applied ap-plied the brakes, to sec what was tho matter and that he Immediately rushed rush-ed out to help the child. MIbs Tabor I says It seemed to her that the car-1 men stopped the car In remarkably short time and that they did all they dould to avoid an accident. She did not see the child until after it had been picked up from the ground. When the parents were notlfiod of the dreadful affair they were drlvon almost mad with grlcd and it was with difficulty that the mother could bo pacified. The child had been sent on an errand in the morning and sho had ridden the bicycle to make haoto. Nellie was 13 years old and a pupil of the Lewis school. The body was taken to an undertaking under-taking parlor where It will remain until the time of the funeral. Tne physicians say that death was caused by the right "side bolng crushed. Cornollus Romyn is a blacksmith for tho Southern Pacific company. The Jurymen are Wa'laco Boyle, Hyrum Hy-rum Pingree and J G Read The body was examined by the Jury at the undertaking parlors, but the facts of the case will not bo presented to them until a later date. |