Young Girl's Skull Fractured

YOUNG GIRL'S SKULL FRACTURED

Miss Lizzie Dancer Killed in Runaway Accident

RETURNING FROM SCHOOL

In Ann Arbor--Horse Became Unmanageable and She Was Thrown Out of Cutter

Miss Lizzie Dancer, daughter of Edwin A. Dancer, of Lima township, was fatally injured in a runaway accident Tuesday afternoon about four 'clock.

Miss Dancer, who was about 15 years of age, has been attending the Ann Arbor high school for the past two years and it has been customary for her to drive from her home (which is south of Luick's corners a distance of two miles) to the corners every morning and there leave her horse, coming the rest of the way to the city on the electric line and returning the same way in the afternoon. Yesterday she left the city on the three o'clock car, as usual, and getting her rig at Luick's corners started for home. She had only gone a short distance when one of the lines broke and the horse ran away. Just what occurred is not known as there were no eye witnesses, but the animal evidently ran to Mill creek, where in some manner he tumbled off the bridge to the ice, upsetting the cutter and throwing Miss Dancer out upon her head. Her skull was fractured and death must have been instantaneous.

It must have been about half an hour before the body was discovered by a passerby and the remains taken to the residence of G. Luick.

The horse the young lady was driving is said to have a reputation for being rather unmanageable, but she never had any trouble with him and always seemed to feel perfectly safe with him. It was not deemed necessary to hold an inquest.