The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-27
Sad ENDING OF 4 PICNIC.
One Little Child Meets Death
and Another Injured.
STRUCK BY A MOTOR TRAIN
On the Elm Grove Road Mt Wheel
ing Park-A Sad and Distressing
Accident for Which there isno
Blame Attached to ANY One

A distressing accident, resulting in the
death OF one child and serious injury to
another, took place at I o'clock last even
ing Mt the eastern terminus Of the Elm
Grove motor line, opposite the entrance
to Wheeling Park, four miles out the
National road.
The Sunday school of st. Johns Ger
man Independent Protestant church, ac-
companicd by the parents and friends OF
the scholars, went out to the Park over
the Elm Grove road, for the purpose OF
holding their annual picnic. Among
those who formed the merry throng we're
Annie, aged Is, and her little brother,
aged ., children OF Earnest Quaschning,
a carriage maker employed at Lutz's
works, and residing at 23l3 Alley G.,
who were the victims OF the accident.
The little boy died soon after the acct
dent. The girl had her right leg broken
and was otherwise injured, but will
probably recover. It was sad ending
to what had been most enjoyable day.
The two children, in company with u
large number OF others, both children
and adults, Ind gathered nj the Park en-
trance for the purpose of taking the 7
O'Clock train for town. The train Us it
went out from town had only one car
attached to the motor. The crowd at
the other end of the line was so great
that Conductor William Michaels order
ed his engineer Paul Share, to get extra
cars out OF the sheds. There was a dis
position on the part OF the crowd to
rush aboard the train before it WIS made
up and the train officials had to repeat
eddy warn the people to be careful.
Annie and her little brother had be-
come separated from their mother and
other friends, and were standing in the
road watching the motor back the ears
out from the sheds. Suddenly they
were startled by warning shout. A
countryman's team was coming dashing
down the road at n rapid and dangerous
rate OF speed. The children were
standing right in its path, and the
shouts of warning were intended to
apprehend them OF their danger.
Annie, recognizing the danger she was
in, picked her little brother up in her
arms and started to get out OF the way.
In doing this she had to cross the motor
tracks, and in her hurry she tripped and
fell and both rolled down just in front
OF the moving cars, Conductor Michael
was on the rear platform and saw the
children fall Just in front OF him. He at
once set the brake and signalled to the
engineer to stop, but the cars had aC-
quired such momentum on the down
grade that they could not be stopped in
time, and the trucks went over the ten
der limbs OF the little ones.
The accident was witnessed by one
hundred or more, and a scene Of the
widest excitement followed. Women
and children screamed and men rushed
forward to help cxtricate the injured
ones from under the cruel wheels, They
were taken to Stamm's 4-NIile House
as soon as gotten out, and physi.
clans telephoncd for. Shortly af-
ter Il well-known physician from
the city, who was out for u
drive, was stopped on the pike and
asked to attend to the children. This
he kindly consented to do. There was
not much that could be done for the
little boy. His legs were horribly crush
ed, and there were internal injuries
that made his recovery impossible.
He died forty minutes afterwards. The
girl was found to have her right leg
fractured and was cut and bruised con-
siderably, but she was fixed up 80 that
it was possible to bring her to town on
the 10 o'clock motor. 1t is thought that
she will recover.
The accident was one of those una
voidable ones for which there is no one
to be blamed. The train hands, rs is
always the case when excursions are be.
ing handled, were unusually careful.
The officers OF the Sunday School gave
warning repeatedly, and when the acct
dent took place it was supposed that as
nothing had occurred to mar the pleas
ures OF the day, the event would be
remembered in the future as an unquali-
fed success.