Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-28
| STREET CAR FATALITY.

ing-Hs Breast Crushed and Neck |
Broken-Two Car Drivers Locked up,
About o'clock last night man, whose |
name could not be learned, was killed by |
being run over by street car number ~,
near the corner of Fort and Forbes streets.
The deceased was quite a large, feshy
man about forty-two years of age, good
looking and wore brown mustache.
His clothes were good, nice, warm sub
stantial ones, though rather coarse in ma
terial. He had the appearance of being a
well to do, thrifty, prosperous man. In one
of his pockets was SIS, a pipe and some to-
bacco. On piece of!paper found on his
person was the name Severn Model, 149
Thirteenth street," below it was Liars p.
Storle. Following this was apparently,
the word address, abbreviated to s'Adr."
liver Oleson, st. James, Mimi"
HOW HE WAS KILLED.
AS car No. 81 was going up Fort street
it met car No. ~ coming down, and just
before they met the deceased got off No
"a. and was knocked down by car No. ~,
and the Car passed over the; man crushing
his chest and breaking his neck lie
was removed to the sidewalk, and
subsequently to the Ramsey street engine.
house. He was not quite dead when he was
laid OF the sidewalk, asO fticerZirkelbachf felt
of his pulse and could distinctly feel it
beating. When he laid him on the engine
house floor, however, he expired.
WHAT THE CAR DRIVERS SAY.
John Webster, the driver of car No. "a,
from which the deceased got off, and John
Conroy, the driver of car No. 40, that ran
over the man, were both arrested and tax
| en- to the City hall about IL O'Clock and
| locked up. Both of them are very intelli-
gent young men, talked freely and appar-
| emily related substantially the truth
in regard to the way the
man was killed. Webster. the
| driver of car No. a, says the
deceased got on his car at the junction of
Jackson and Fourth streets ard rode all
the way up to the spot where he lost his
life. He says the man appeared to be Sc
riously under the Influence of liquor and
lay down on the seats and slept all the
way. The driver finally woke the man up,
and told him he must pay his
fare OR get Of and he con-
cluded to leave and did so, getting Of at
the rear end of the car in the usual way.
| The driver says that everything was pleas
ant and that no harsh language passed be-
tween him and the man. AS the deceased
left the car the driver of No. q went on
the spot where the accident occurred
that two. boys saw the accident andaaisa
| the driver push the deceased Off, but the
boys, though earnestly sought for, could
not be found, and were not discovered
during the night. They may be found in
time for the inquest at 10 o'clock this
morning.
John Conroy, the driver of the other
car, says he knew nothing
about the matter, except that just
as he drove past he got an indistinct
glimpse of an object near the horses, and,
in an instant after, he felt the car rise up
under him, as though it was passing over
/
have passed over the body of a man. He
Immediately stopped his car and went back
to see what the matter was, and found
the man on the track run over and injured
as above described. He assisted in remov-
ing the man to the sidewalk, whence he was
subseq uently moved to the Engine house
on Ramsey street. He says that Thomas
Macy, who resides on Fort street, Che
could not tell what number)
was in car No. AZ which he
was driving. This man, Macy is, he thinks,
in some Wholesale liquor house in the
city. If he sees this he should go the in
| quest at 10 o'clock this ,rning at Nc
Carly & Donnelly's and make himself
known as a witness.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Officers Zirkelbach and De Coursey
were on the. ground Immediately
after the accident, and took all necessary
steps to secure testimony and subsequently
took the drivers into custody and conveyed
them to the city hall where they were
locked up.
Messrs. Mccarthy and Donnelly were
notified and went up to the engine house
where they took charge of the body and
| removed it to their under
taking rooms. Instructions were also
given to Zirkelbach to summon jury for
10 o'clock this morning where the inquest
will he held at their place on Wabashaw
street opposite the custom house.
Of course the drivers both claim that the
fatality was purely accidental, and the sto-
~ they tell makes it look that way, but the.
inquest to-day NAV develop something diff