"Simmons, Lucy A. – female, age 74 yrs b. Mass., d. 26 Aug 1901, corner of Dolores & 23rd Sts. (This is a removal permit registered in San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Ca., which is probably where death occurred), bur in a Biggs, Butte Co., Ca. cem., died of fracture of skull." Source: Earliest Death and Burial Records, in the Butte County Courthouse, published serially in the Paradise Genealogical Society's publication, The Goldmine, Vol 9, No. 2, pg 7.
San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 88, 27 August 1901. ELECTRIC CAR KILLS WOMAN. Mrs. Lucy Simmons Loses Her Life in the Mission.
An elderly woman was struck by an electric car at Dolores and Twenty-second streets last evening and killed. The motorman, W.B. Luckenbach, was placed under arrest and charged with manslaughter. When car 1060 of the Twenty-fourth-street tine dropped down the Dolores street hill the motorman observed the old lady step on the track, but she apparently noticed his approach and stepped back again. He had set his brake, but released it and reached Twenty-second street at a high rate of speed. When the fast moving car was within a few feet of her the woman stepped forward again, and before an accident could be averted was struck and knocked to the pavement.
Dr. T.W.B. Leland, who was on a car following, found that life was not extinct and ordered the victim to the hospital, but she died en route. The body was identified at the Morgue by Thomas Fellows, a neighbor, as that of Mrs. Lucy A. Simmons of 911 Dolores street. She had a son, Levi Simmons, a customs inspector. Mrs. Simmons was returning from the home of friends at Twenty-fourth and York streets when she was killed.
San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 88, 27 August 1901. ELECTRIC CAR KILLS WOMAN. Mrs. Lucy Simmons Loses Her Life in the Mission.
An elderly woman was struck by an electric car at Dolores and Twenty-second streets last evening and killed. The motorman, W.B. Luckenbach, was placed under arrest and charged with manslaughter. When car 1060 of the Twenty-fourth-street tine dropped down the Dolores street hill the motorman observed the old lady step on the track, but she apparently noticed his approach and stepped back again. He had set his brake, but released it and reached Twenty-second street at a high rate of speed. When the fast moving car was within a few feet of her the woman stepped forward again, and before an accident could be averted was struck and knocked to the pavement.
Dr. T.W.B. Leland, who was on a car following, found that life was not extinct and ordered the victim to the hospital, but she died en route. The body was identified at the Morgue by Thomas Fellows, a neighbor, as that of Mrs. Lucy A. Simmons of 911 Dolores street. She had a son, Levi Simmons, a customs inspector. Mrs. Simmons was returning from the home of friends at Twenty-fourth and York streets when she was killed.
"Simmons, Lucy A. – female, age 74 yrs b. Mass., d. 26 Aug 1901, corner of Dolores & 23rd Sts. (This is a removal permit registered in San Francisco, San Francisco Co., Ca., which is probably where death occurred), bur in a Biggs, Butte Co., Ca. cem., died of fracture of skull." Source: Earliest Death and Burial Records, in the Butte County Courthouse, published serially in the Paradise Genealogical Society's publication, The Goldmine, Vol 9, No. 2, pg 7.
San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 88, 27 August 1901. ELECTRIC CAR KILLS WOMAN. Mrs. Lucy Simmons Loses Her Life in the Mission.
An elderly woman was struck by an electric car at Dolores and Twenty-second streets last evening and killed. The motorman, W.B. Luckenbach, was placed under arrest and charged with manslaughter. When car 1060 of the Twenty-fourth-street tine dropped down the Dolores street hill the motorman observed the old lady step on the track, but she apparently noticed his approach and stepped back again. He had set his brake, but released it and reached Twenty-second street at a high rate of speed. When the fast moving car was within a few feet of her the woman stepped forward again, and before an accident could be averted was struck and knocked to the pavement.
Dr. T.W.B. Leland, who was on a car following, found that life was not extinct and ordered the victim to the hospital, but she died en route. The body was identified at the Morgue by Thomas Fellows, a neighbor, as that of Mrs. Lucy A. Simmons of 911 Dolores street. She had a son, Levi Simmons, a customs inspector. Mrs. Simmons was returning from the home of friends at Twenty-fourth and York streets when she was killed.
San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 88, 27 August 1901. ELECTRIC CAR KILLS WOMAN. Mrs. Lucy Simmons Loses Her Life in the Mission.
An elderly woman was struck by an electric car at Dolores and Twenty-second streets last evening and killed. The motorman, W.B. Luckenbach, was placed under arrest and charged with manslaughter. When car 1060 of the Twenty-fourth-street tine dropped down the Dolores street hill the motorman observed the old lady step on the track, but she apparently noticed his approach and stepped back again. He had set his brake, but released it and reached Twenty-second street at a high rate of speed. When the fast moving car was within a few feet of her the woman stepped forward again, and before an accident could be averted was struck and knocked to the pavement.
Dr. T.W.B. Leland, who was on a car following, found that life was not extinct and ordered the victim to the hospital, but she died en route. The body was identified at the Morgue by Thomas Fellows, a neighbor, as that of Mrs. Lucy A. Simmons of 911 Dolores street. She had a son, Levi Simmons, a customs inspector. Mrs. Simmons was returning from the home of friends at Twenty-fourth and York streets when she was killed.
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