Lexington, KY Trolley - Bicycle Wreck, May 1896
Posted July 24th, 2008 by June
Mangled By A Trolley Car.
Miss Masie Todd, Cousin of Robert Todd Lincoln, Killed.
Lexington, Ky., May 13.-Special Telegram-An electric street car ran down and killed Miss MASIE TODD, who was attempting to cross in front of it on her bicycle on South Broadway, at 6 o’clock this evening. She was horribly mangled, one wheel passing over her body. She was 20 years old, the youngest daughter of the venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd. She was a cousin to Robert Todd Lincoln of Chicago. Her brother, Lee Todd, and sister, Mrs. Nellie Baldwin, live in Boston, from which city she recently returned, where she had been visiting them. She had been riding a bicycle only a week.
The Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago, IL 14 May 1896
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