Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-10
FATAL ACCIDENT.

| We copy the following account of the death
| of County Commissioner L. 81. Torp, Of
Storey, from last evenings Chronicle: County
Commissioner Torp was killed yesterday after
noon, and his wife dangerously injured, by
being thrown from their Buggy at the north
east corner of c street and Sutton avenue
The accident occurred at five minutes before
2P NJ The residence of the family is at the
dollhouse on the Geiger grade, and has been
for years the custom of Mr.. .Torp to drive in
to town with his wife every Sunday, leave
| her ut St. Pauls Church, and call for her at
the close of the services. Yesterday the
usual custom was followed, and about I
| o'clock in the afternoon Mr.. Torp drove up
Taylor street, with his wife beside him. An
hour later the startling news was brought in
that he had been thrown out and was dying.
1t appears that just before starting for home
Mr. Torp drove into Derby & Garhart's stable
and asked the men to examine the TO of one
of the horses, as he feared nail or splinter
had got into it. Nothing was found, however,
and he turned his team and drove out north
ward along street, until he reached Sutton
avenue. Here he turned, intending to go
c street, his usual route homeward. Just rs
the turn was making from B street into SUIT
ton avenue, one OF the horses slipped, and in
the struggle to keep from falling, wrenched
the brass cap, or thimble, off the right end of
the neck yoke. The collar-straps which hold
the neck yoke to its place are fastened one
end to the collar of each horse and the other
to a staple in the metallic cap at the end of
the neck yoke. So when the cap slipped off
the pole of the carriage fell against the legs
of the nigh horse, and the carriage lurched |
forward, striking both horses in the TANKS,
and frightening them unmanageable. Mr.. |
rorp was utterly unable to control the horses, |
and they plunged furiously down the steep
grade of the avenue to the Crner of c street. |
Here Mr.. Torp exerted all his strength and
turned the team to the left. The grade was
SO steep and the impetus great, however,
that the buggy careened 50 violently that Mr..
Torp and his wife were both thrown out. At
the northeast corner of G and Sutton avenue,
where the hapess couple We're thrown out,
there is one Of those old amalgam retorts SO
used for corner posts in this city
4 large iron cylinder about Is inches in diam
,ter, with narrow neck projecting upward.
A against this Mr.. Torp was thrown with such
md never spoke again. Mrs. Torp was thrown
,ver the retort and fell about ten feet below
he corner, MANNED, bleeding and senseless.
Mr.. Torp was at once removed to the City
Hall and laid on hastily prepared couch.
Meantime DR.. Bronson had been summoned,
md within five minutes after the accident he
vas beside the sufferer. The doctor found
linn in such a condition that only partial ex
animation of his injuries could be made. At
ines there were slight convulsive movements
# the body, but he never regained conscious \
Tess, and died about twenty minutes after
he accident. There were no marks of any
consequence upon Mr. Torp's body DR..
'ronsons opinion is that death resulted from
not unlikely that fatal internal injuries
rere inflicted. Mr.. Torp was born in the
'rovince of Holstein, Germany, and was in
is ifty-frs year at the time of his death. 6
he funeral services will take place at
clock tomorrow afternoon, under the aus
ices OF the Masonic fraternity
Drs. Collins and Bergstein were called to Al
ttend to Mrs. Torp They found both bones .o
{ the left leg broken above the ankle joint e
he left wrist was dislocated and the thumb II
{ the left hand broken. The nose WAS
roken, and one side of her face badly bruised. q
t,r some time nothing could be done by the
hysicians, as the slightest touch seemed to
We intense pain and sent her into spasms
I'd chills After midnight she was easier 7
I'd the fractures were set. This morning 81,
was ascertained that there were no inter- e.
If injuries, and the physicians are quite Al
,peful of her recovery. She will be re-