Daily globe., 1881-02-23
FATAL ACCIDENT.
Henry, Son of j. NJ. schmidling, of Seventh
Street, Run Over by a Street Car and
KilIed---A Very Sad Affair.

Henry, Son of j. NJ. schmidling, of Seventh
Street, Run Over by a Street Car and
KilIed---A Very Sad Affair.
About 7:30 o'clock last evening, Henry
schmidling, lad of 10 or II years, son Of ].
Michael schmidling, grocer, southeast corner
of Seventh and Olive streets, was sent from
home on an errand to the bakery on the oppo.
site corner. How he came to be there can
only oe surmised, but shortly afterwards he
was run against, If not run over, by street
car at the Locust street crossing of Eighth
street. The driver of the car only knows
that when moving at fair speed he saw dark
object on the road in front of him.
Applying the brakes he quickly
stopped the car, but not before the
boy was reached, pushed along for few
feet and then it is supposed, run over by
one car wheel. The boy, breathing, but evi.
IDENTIFY badly hurt, was taken on the car at
one to Stierle's drug store, corner Seventh
street and Broadway. where he soon expired
He was jammed or cut across the head on
one side, his lower jaw broken from its socket,
and part of the bones back of the jaw crushed
inward. The coroner was sent for, and, after
his arrival, the body of the lad was put in as
good condition as circumstances would allow,
by Mr.. Sticrle and others, and, finally, as the
pOuJ wac uOb JCb luCuLuCu1 PCIbOuo Mtub
along the track to look for traces of the &C.
cident and It's cause and from its scene to start
search for the lads friends.
While they were looking along the icy way
and track Mr.. Schmidlipg, who had heard a
rumor of the accident and came out to look
for his boy, accosted them, and hastily gath
ering the story, felt that the killed lad must be
his son. On going to the drug store his fore.
boding was confirmed. The dead boy was
carried to the home he had left in full health a
little more than an hour before. An inquest
into the manner of his death will be held by
Coroner Davenport, at the residence of the
afflicted family, corner of Seventh and Olive
streets, at 1890 this morning.
= 1t was at first supposed that the boy was
run over and killed by the street car, but the
drivers account of the occurrence, taken in
connection wich the fact that it happened
three squares from his home in direction op-
posite to that on which he was sent, leaves a
doubt to be determined by the inquest this
morning. The driver is positive that the boy,
as the car approached, was lying down on the
roadway, his head at the center of the track
and his feet extending over the rail- If his
car ran over the boy, of which he is not GER
tain, he supposes it must have run over his
legs or feet; yet it is possible that, as the. body
bore marks of having been dragged, it may
have been turned about by the car wheel 80
as to bring the head on the track.
In the confusion and excitement of the time
the driver failed to notice how or where the
boy lay when he was picked up. But his ac-
count of how the boy lay was corroborated
by two large pools of blood nearly midway
between the rails or where the driver says the
boys head was. 1t cannot be regarded as
possible that the boy was run over by the car
on its outward trip; but it is supposed that
when he started across the street to the bakery
he may have caught onto a passing sleigh or
street car and in some way been hurt and ren-
dered insensible where he was seen by the
driver. The driver did not see him on his feet
or moving.
The driver, j. NJ Smith, was late last even
ing arrested, to be held until the coroner's in
quest