Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-27
TWO CHILDREN
MET WITH A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON fHB
BIN GROVE, LAST EVENING.
RIM Over BY a Car At !hs Entrance 10 the Park
One Killed, and the Othsr Very Badly
WCundsd-How il Happened.

Wcundsd-How il Happened.
Just before seven o'clock last evening
Annie and Ernst Qusschning, aged respsc-
lively thirteen and five years, were run
over by car on the Elm Grove motor line,
near the entrance to Wheeling Park.
Ernst died from the effects Of the horri-
BILE injuries inflicted upon him, forty min
utes alter the accident, but the girl Is still
alive and viii probably recover.
The news of the accident was quickly
brought to the city, but, as usual in such
cases, in q greatly exaggerated form, ru-
mors flying thick and fast to the effect
that both children had been killed out
right, and that one or two others had been
hurt.
There was naturally good deal Of
anxiety throughout the city, among those
who had relatives or friends out at the
Park, in attendance upon st. Johns Church
picnic, and between eight and nine O'Clock
a large crowd gathered at the Elm Grove
station, on Sixteenth street, anxious to
learn che exact situation.
The accident seems to have been entirely
unavoidable, so far as the railroad en-
ployes are concerned, and to have been the
iirect result Of the crowding and pushing
80 often noticeable at the Park end Of the
Elm Grove line, whenever there is an I'M
usual crowd out there.
The train which caused the accident was
10 charge of Conductor William Michaels
and Epgineer Paul Shane. As it went out
from this city, il consisted OF but one car,
and when the time arrived for the train to
return to the city, the conductor run the
motor down into the car shed and began to
back out two extra ears, which he ex-
pected to be filled by those In attendance
at the Sunday school picnic. There was
great rush of people-men, women and
children-to get on the cars, each endesvor-
ing to get there first aud secure seat De-
fore the others got in, and the result was
A good deal of trouble for Conductor Mich
asls, who once or twice had to interfere
and drive the people out Of the road.
As the cars were backing out OF the car
shed, the conductor stood upon the plat
form of the foremost car, holding the brake
and keeping q sharp lookout that no one
was injured. Just a. the cars got we'll out
into the pike, 3 wagon came along, anu
lady called to Annie Quaschning, who was
standing by her little brother, to look oui
for the wagon" The girl turned quickly,
and seeing the approaching vehicle, seemed
70 have forgotten the approach OF the cars,
and picking up her brother, started to run
across the track to the opposite side. As
she vss crossing the rails, she tripped and
fell, not being more than eight or ten feet
rom the end OF the approaching car.
As quick SIS q flash, Conductor Michaeis
put the brake down hard, at the same
time signaling to Engineer Shane to shut
off steam and reverse. This was done at
once, bat the momentum Of the train, on
the down grade could not be checked, and
the wheels of the foremost truck passed
over both the PROSTATE children. In an
instant, however, the cars were stopped,
and amid the screams Of the horror-strlcker
speetstors the bruised and bleeding bodies
of the two children were taken from
under the car and carried
70 Mr.. Stamm's. DIR. Dickey Glanced tC
be passing in his buggy at ths time, and
was called in, while messenger was sent
10 the city for other medical aid, Drs
John Frissei snd Stifel going out on the
eight o'clock motor. A few minutes latel
Mr.. Ernst Quasching, the father followed
in hack, he having been notlasd Oh tne
misfortune to his children by friends
Mrs. Ouasching WAS with the children a.
the time of the accident.
An examination by the physician hrs'
ON the ground, showed that the little
bow had sustained the most serious
injuries, and il was evident tina
his life could not be saved. HIS
left leg was broken In two places and hi
right in one, and he seemed TO have sus
tanned internal injuries by being rolled I'M
der the wheels of the car. Everything pos
sible was done for the little sufferer, bu
ths bow never recovered from the shock o
the accident, dying in forty minutes ate
the mishsp occurred.
The girls injuries consisted of two frac
lures of the right leg, one just above tn'
ankle and the other near the hip joint. II
the fracture at the ankle the bone pro
,ruded thron2h the flesh. The patien
recovered premptly from the shock, ant
in the opinion of the attending ply
siciaps. last night, she will pull through
all right. She was brought into the cat,
ON the nine o'clock motor, and taken to tn
residence of her parents, on the South Side
between Twenty,secOnd and Twenty-thirt
streets. The body OF tbs little boy wa
brought in in the hack IN which Mr.
Ouaschning went ont, and WAS prepared io
burial by Friend & Son.
The accident is q most deplorsbls DE
and is greatly to be regretted. The sa.
results attending it should put q stop, fol-
all time, to the rushing and pushing II
board the cars, at the Park. Last evening
q gentleman, in talking over this custom
by the patrons Of the road, said:
al remember an instance a short time
syo, which illustrates the entire lack Of
caution prevailing st the eastern terminus
of the road, at times. Three empty cars
were backing into the shed there, and
about forty people were waiting to get on
hoard. Notwithstanding there was scarce
Iy enough passengers TO comfortably fill
one car, and three cars were in the train,
they made q rush for them, and one lady,
with q small child under each arm, made
frantic efforts to climb into q moving car,
running great risk ofaosing her own life,
or those of her children. / caught hold OF
her, and pulled her away, whereat she
grew very indignant, and abused me
roundly."
Another gentleman said he caught an
other lady under the same circumstances,
she having baby in her arms and en-
to climb into n moving car. In
sndeavoring to get her way, he was struck
by the car and knocked down.
LAST nights terrible mishsp should be a
The Democratic Executive Committee.
The Democfstic Executive Committee
held very important meeting, last even
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