San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-01
HOODOOED SUNDAY.
Category of Accidents or a Remark
able Day.

Category of Accidents or Remark
able Day.
Yesterday was remarkabls day
for it's numerous and serious mishaps.
The telephone wires were several
times warmed ny anxious calls for
physicians, and moro bandages and
stitches were made yesterday than
| have been made for some time The
list OF accidents opened with probably
fatal one and closed with q very Sc
rious one. The following mishaps
have been thus far reported:
Sunday morning while Conductor
Mosberger was raising n window in
the hoedooed green line car No. s. he
severely cut his arm, it requiring
thirteen stitches to put it in con dition
again.
An unpleasant accident occurred to
Mrs. Anderson living on st Mary's
street yesterday afternoon. The
horse of her family carriage took
| fright and started off at q lively
speed. Mrs. Anderson sprapg from
the buggy and was considerably
bruised.
Yestel day afternoon while Miss
Mary Stuart, who lives on South
Presa street, was riding over the
electric car line, she attempted TO
step off before the car stopped and as
q result was violently thrown to tho
ground and very badly hurt about
the shoulder and head. The phv-
stefan Of the Dad, DR.. Kennedy, was
called and attended to her Injuries,
and she & reported as doing we'll.
Yesterday afternoon a hackman
! named Mclaughlin, who is subject to
severe fits was taken by one Of the
spells while in the yard of Mr.. Pratt's
saloon on Soledad street, and fell In
such manner as to make it unable
for HIM to breathe. An intelligent
setter OF Mr.. Pratt's that had notlced
| the accident, began to bark and Jump
at his master, finally succeeding in
bringing Mr.. Pratt to the scene of
accident, and thus saving the life of
the unfortunate hackman, who would
have most likely died of sGrangula-
ton.
Yesterday morning while driving
In his sulky and racer over the fair
grounds race track, a racemap, Mr..
EdmOnds, met with a serious acct
! dent. His horse was going at a
rapid gait when it stumbled. The
sudden stop threw the driver a dis
lance Of twenty feet, far over the
head of the animal, and entangling
the horse in the sulky in such man
uer as TO pin it helplessly to tho
| ground. Some boys who were irving
| their bicycles on the track Immediate
! ly started to aid Eimonds when it
was found that he had been knocked
unconscious and WAS evidently In.
jured internally. He was carried
| into the Secretary's Office at the gate
and physician was sent for.
What may likely prove fatal ac-
cident occurred at the Sunset depot
yesterday morning about ten O'Clock,
when, just as No. II west bound was
to start, u switchman named Sam q.
! Eckels, who was uncoupling the air
brakes, received most serious wound
in the head. 1t seems that Eckels
signaled the engineer to back up
wnen he stopped to perform his work,
and thus had his skull crushed. Upon
the happening of the accident, Eckels
rushed upsn the platform severely
| bleeding and called for water. He
was taken TO his boarding house on
Ave. d and then transferred to the
santa Rosa hospital. His wound will
| likely prove fatal. Mr.. Eckels is
young man OF about twenty eight
years. He came from lagrange and
was on the force here only about three
or four days. He has brother in the
city who is a switchman in the night
crew.