Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-22
ITS THIRD FATALITY.
Another Death Caused by the Fifth Avenue
Traction Line-A Coupiin Pin Driven
Through n Boys Heart-Full List of
Yesterdays CnsuaIties.

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Traction Line-A Coupiin Pin Driven
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Yesterdays CnsuaIties.
The third death on the Fifth Avenue
! Traction road occurred last evening. AS
the four-car train was on it's way to the
East End at 6 o'clock, four boys got aboard
at Soho to steal ride. The boys jumped
on the steps between the first and second
cars and the train had proceeded as far as the
st. Agnes Church, when Conductor E.
| Smith, who was on the front car, stepped
out on the platform. The boys, on seeing
the conductor, all jumped off at once and
fell over each other as they alighted.
Patrick Maddigan, aged IL years, fell in
such a position that the axle box of the
second car caught his head between the box
and the ground and smashed his skull, kill
ing him instantly. The other sboys FORUM
ately escaped injury. Maddigan was picked
up and carried home on the opposite side of
the street, where the Coroner viewed the
remains.
W. H. lockwood, the gripman, who ran
the train, and Conductors E. Smith, J.
McCompsey and George Brunner, who had
charge of the cars, after making the trip,
went to the Nineteenth ward police station
and gave themselves up to Captain
Mercer. Superintendent Davis went before
Magistrate Hyndman, and gave bail in the
sum OF 81 900 for each of the men. He Sc
cured their release until the Coroner's in
quest at II o'clock this morning. Rock
wood, Smith and McCom psey and a number
of citizens were witnesses to the accident, and
the Coroner has secured the address S of a
number of citizens who will be subpenaed
on the case.
Deputy Coroner Grant Miller went to
Elrod station on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad yesterday afternoon to view the
body of little boy who had been killed
there on the railroad. The little fellows
name was Winiard W. Lang. He was IL
wears old, and the son of respectable, hard
working miner. While on his way home
from school ne went between a broken or
parted train to enter his house. Just as he
stepped on the track the engine backed up
the cars to make the coupling. Before the
boy could escape he was caught between the
bumpers. A coupling link set to drop in
the draw head struck him in the breast and
was driven through his heart. The little
fellow died without a murmer. The body
was taken into the bows house, not 20 feet
away, by the train hands.
John Coleman was badly burned about
the head and face by an explosion in fur
mace in Jones & Laughlin's mill. While
removing a superheated ball, Coleman's
companion, Charles Guenther, according to
custom, threw water on the metal. Some
of the fluid got into the furnace and it ex-
ploded. The roof and sides were torn off
and the hot metal was thrown into Cole
mans face. No others were injured. The
Southside Hospital doctors don't think
Coleman's burns are serious, but his eyes
are badly injured.
A Hungarian fell off bridge at the Lucy
furnace and broke his leg. His name
could not be learned.
A horse and wagon, while backing up to
the dump a: South Ninth street, went over
the embankment into the river. The horse
was drowned. Thompson, the driver,
jumped and saved himself.
John Wallace, 81 years old, was working
in one of the pits at the Lucy furnace, when
q heavy piece of hot iron fell on his head,
Inficting painful injuries.
While passing Mrs. Johnson's house, on
Rebecca street, in Allegheny, Albert Reed,
young boy, was shot in the eye with an air
gun. The sight was destroyed. Three BOYS
were playing in the house, and it was doubt
less an accident.
A team OF horses ran away in the East
End with Mrs. Pennock Hart and her
daughter. The carriage struck lamp post,
throwing the driver to the ground, and the
wheels crushed his foot. The horses were
soon stopped and the ladies were uniniured. |