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Show AUTD KID BICYCLE COLLIDE NARROW ESGAPE At about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, aft-ernoon, S. C. McDonald, an employe of the Alvord second-hand Btore, narrowly escaped serious injury when a bicycle he was riding collided with an automobile at the intersection of Twenty-fourth street and Hudson avenue, operated by Miss Elsie Bos-tic Bos-tic a professional nurse. Miss Bostlc was driving her auto' easterly along Twenty-fourth street and MacDonald was going north on Hudson avenue. Neither the auto nor the bicycle wns moving above a moderate rate of speed, but the two collided. The auto struck the bicycle bicy-cle broadside and, before what had happened could be realized, McDonald McDon-ald and his bicycle were under the machine. In attempting to put on the emergency emer-gency brake, Miss Bostlc said, she pressed the clutch peddle, the machine ma-chine moving quite a distance after it had struck his bicycle. Quickly realizing her mistake, the young lady applied the brake and the car was stopped. Fortunately the bicycle was between Mr. McDonald and tho running run-ning gear of the auto and the prostrate pros-trate man was shoved in front of it along the pavement, preventing the auto from crushing him to death. A number of people rushed to the scene of the accident and aided in extracting McDonald and his bicycle from under the auto. Except for a few bruises about the right side and shoulders, McDonald was uninjured. His bicycle, however, was taken to the repair shop, as the front end of it was practically broken into small pieces. Miss Bostlc advised Mr. McDon-ing McDon-ing with her were overcome and it was a few moments before they could regain their composure. Both said that when the auto struck the bicycle bi-cycle tho man and the wheel fell un-' un-' der the front end of the car and out of view. They feared the man had been crushed to death. Miss Bostlc advised Mr. MacDonald MacDon-ald to take his bicycle to a repair shop and she would pay the cost of patching it up, or she would buy him a new wheel. She was very happy to know that he was not injured, but said that, if he was, she would take . care of him. |