Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-04-02
CRUSHED AND MANGLED.
SAnrs nAuoNEY KuLED AND mrs SON
pnou spLy FATALLY INJURED.


One Of the saddest accidents that ue
novepspeis have been called upon TO chron-
Me. sn long time, occurred on Saturday
n1oosn0oo q Mil Creek, water station on
~ P6unsyivanis railroad, about four
utles esss Of this city. BY yns father was
onoo1ly injured and his son made cripple
~ lilA Il h BY no means certain yet how
No.. Inst the latter will nos die.
T1o usmo OF the dead man was james
Dealcney, who for elk or eight years %.
"a charge OF the ash pits at Mill Creek.
1fonk of the freight engines take water o.
: ~ place and whom they stop the ashes
-. rsked out. The pits, which are Of con-
erahIe depth, are between the rails Of the
20 trscka Into these the ashes fall, as
thoy are raked from the engine, and 1t
Wes part OF Maloney 8 duty to shovel them
out thus keeping the PIT from FILL
fne up. 1t wss between and
o'clock Saturday afternoon when this &C
oldsnt occurred. Maloney aud his son
David, yo nth OF l6 years, had just finished
cleaning the pit on the south track. The
nohes had been thrown out and upon the
txack and they were engaged shoveling
shem down the en- nbankment when freight
train, drawn by engine No. 1,ls5, passed
eesf. II is supposed that the engineer had
lntsudsd to lake water but ran past, before
ho could stop, for In short
time the train backed. Maloney and
Ms SON were busily engaged at
work on the track, and, as another train
W. passing west at the time, they did not
hear the eastern bound train backing. BE.
tore they could save themselves the train
was upon them and the caboose ran over
both, This Was the only car that touched
theu, and they were picked up and carried
70 their homo near by. Word was quickly
sent out for medical aid. DR.. George
X. welchsns, the compaDy's pbysi'
clan in this city, was summoned
and, % there was no passenger train going
esst for some time, he was taken down on
the shifter, which is stationed here. Drs.
LAaman, of Lesmsn Place, Miller, OF Bird
INLAND, and Musser, OF Wilmer, we.e
soou on hand, and DR.. Compton went down
from this city at 6:45. Upon making an
examination, the physicians found that the
fathers left leg had been crushed to jelly
from just below the knee down.
The car wheels had passed over the right
ankle and foot, crushing all the bones and
terribly mapgliDg the limb. Tho left leg
Of the boy was torn and crushed from the
knee down. After q consultation the doc
tors concluded that in the case OF the father
they would do nothing in the way of ampu.
tntiOn until reaction set in. in the boy g
case 1t was different a. reaction had alread y
set 10. His leg was therefore amputated
above the knee. Sunday morning the
physicians again met at the house, when
they amputated both legs OF the father be
tween the knee and ankle. 1t was feared
that tho shock would 10 too great for the
father, and II 70 proved. He began to sinh
during the afternoon and about o'clocl
breathed his last. Theson Is by no means on
os danger yet, but il doing as well as coult
b expected. His injuries were not q
great a. those OF his father and ho may ye
recover.
James Maloney WAS "a we'll known II
Lancaster a. In the neighborhood where h
lived, - Of one time he resided here. II
Was So years Of age and born In Ireland
but came TO this country about 40 yea,
8 30 He worked upon the railroad whe
the state had yet control OF II, and serve
4 IA different capacities for the past 35 year
besides q wife and the SOD, who was in
jured With him, he leaves two sons; VIII
are employed by the railroad company
one ct Altoona and the other in Pittsburl
Trey we're at once telegraphed for, an
: arrived home on Sunday. Several yea,
axo another son was run over and kille
by the cars In the yard OF the Fort Wayn
railroad In Allegheny.