Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-08
HURLED HISDEATH.
A Speeding Runaway Grip Car Col
lides With an Ice Wagon,
THROWING A YOUNG MAN rs FEET.
The Cable Stopped Too Late by an Electric
Signal System.
RICHMOND's RELATIVES TALK OF A SUIT

Car No. 206 on the Citizens Traction
road pulled into the East End station from
Penn avenue yesterday afternoon at $780,
The grip broke and set its jaws on the cable,
and the car dashed through the station at
full speed and ran out on TO Frankstown av-
enue. One of the wagons of the Juniata Ice
Company was just pulling across the track,
and on the rear step was standing Frank
Richmond.
The flying car collided with the rear of
the ice wagon, the shock finging Richmond
at least 25 feet. He fell on the curbstone,
which made jagged wound in the back of
his neck, and the force of the fall crushed
his left wrist. The young man was lifted
Ind carried into McLaren's drug store. still
breathing; but he died within ten minutes,
despite the exertions of three doctors.
HIS FATHER WAS THERE.
David Richmond, senior partner in the
Juniata Ice Company, father of the young
man killed, saw from a distance the i'm
mense crowd that had gathered, and pushed
his way into the drug store only TO find, to
his horror, his oldest son lying dead. When
he had recovered from the shock he had the
body taken to his residence on Dallas ave-
nue., in Homewood. Coroner Mcdowell
was notified, and arrived at 10 o'clock.
In the meantime William D. Marks,
gripman of No. 2o6. was arrested and taken
to the Nineteenth ward station house. Itwas
subsequently decided to allow Marks re-
lease upon s., 900 bail, the necessary papers
being made out by Alderman Hyndman,
and the prisoners bondsman being George
Rice, Acting Superintendent of the Citi-
zens' Traction Company.
Young Richmond was bright youth, 10
years of age, and worked for the Juniata
Ice Company, of which his father, David,
is President. The other members of the
company are Fl. P. Krebs, Samuel Creel-
man, John and Henry Schusler. n. P.
Krebs is the well-known real estate dealer
of the East End, and is uncle to young
Richmond. He stated last night to a DIS
PATCH reporter that the family would GER
tainly sue the company
FOR HEAVY DAMAGES,
probably no less than $40, 900, as there was
an element of negligence in the matter. 1t
was his impression that city councils had
recommended that the Citizens Traction
Company place a watchman at the Franks
town avenue outlet of the East End station
on account of the dangerous nature of the
place, and he knew that no watchman had
been placed there in accordance with the
recommendation.
Acting Superintendent George Rice said,
in regard to the affair: 1.-THE gripman,
Marks, is one of our oldest employees, and
the unfortunate accident-for such it was
is not in anyway traceable to negligence.
The car preceding No. 206 had just started
on its way to town; 206 pulled in to have its
grip examined at the wheel-pit; but the grip
became disarranged and clung to the cable,
the latter carrying the car out to Frankstown
avenue at full speed. The gripman applied
all his force to the brake and rang his gong
furiously; but no effort could have prevented
the collision. The car did not touch Rich
mond, whose death was caused by the blow
from the curbstone. It was running toward
Penn avenue and would have done other
damage had not the cable been stopped
within half a minute.
"We have system of electric alarm,
with boxes at every square along the line,
and code of signals by which the engines |
at the power house can be stopped. As
sistant Superintendent Smith happened to
be at the station, and rang the alarm, and |
the cable was stopped certainly in less than |
half minute. We examine grips at every |
trip, something never done in other cities,
and the temporary disarrangemeDt of the |
grip on No. 206 was beyond our control"
Coroner Mcdowell will hold an inquest |
at 10 o'clock this morning.