Over The Cliff In An Auto

OVER THE CLIFF IN AN AUTO.

How a Young Woman Met Death In a Peculiar and Awful Way.

Instantly killed by an automobile accident on a steep road near Arden, N.Y., in the Ramapo hills, was the dreadful fate of Miss Cornelia Herrick, a seventeen-year-old girl.

Dr. Rushmore, the girl's uncle, had received a call from a patient some distance away and invited his niece to accompany him in his automobile. The place where the accident occurred is a steep and winding road that climbs a lofty hill.

The road was cut through the thick wood and in places was blasted from the solid rock. On one side is a declivity of more than 100 feet, while on the other side the hill towers up almost straight.

The road is crooked and is regarded as dangerous by drivers, any of whom will not attempt it with a fractious team. The road is scarcely wide enough for two carriages to pass. Dense shrubbery and almost primeval forest skirt it on one side.

Dr. Rushmore had been over the road often enough to know its dangers. The auto had proceeded slowly about 300 feet up the hill when Dr. Rushmore halted it to generate more steam.

After a few moments the doctor started up again, and he had gone only a little way when something happened.

The auto stopped abruptly and then began to move backward, gaining fresh speed with every second. The doctor tried to put on the brake. It would not work. Hurrying down the tremendous hill backward, the auto veered toward the road.

Dr. Rushmore could not control it, could not guide it, could not stop it. There was nothing to stop it except a little hemlock hedge. It passed through that like a knife through water and fell, spilling its occupants. Miss Herrick was instantly killed. Dr. Rushmore was terribly injured but will recover.

THE AUTO SPILLED ITS OCCUPANTS