Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-04
SUNDAYS ACCIDENT RECORD.
DEATH BELIEVES A NUMBER OF SUFFER.
ERs IN BOTH CITIES.

Wounded on Railroad and CabIs Lines
Girl Drowned In the RIver-Chopped OF
FIngers-McKeesporf Woman Burned TO
Death-Farni Fall From a Ladder.
Screams of agony brought crowd to the
Ft Wayne Railroad tracks at Jacks Run
Yesterday afternoon. John Callen, aged 10
years, was pinned under the wheels of q
freight train. He tried to jump on the
cars, fell, and was terribly cut about the
head. He was taken to the West Penn
Hospital, where he gave his residence as
Verner.s station. !. He is not expected to re-
cover.
John Bradley. aged 10 years, employed as
stable boss for John kirkpatrick on David
son street, Seventeenth ward, fell from a
ladder in the stable about II o'clock yester-
day, and broke his neck, killing him in
stantly. His body was removed to Leslie's
livery stable and the Coroner notified.
Bradley was married, and lived at 164 AL
mond alley.
Frank Wild, aged % years, was struck by
passenger train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road at the Thirty-third street bridge at II
o'clock Saturday night. He was taken to
the West Penn Hospital, where his left arm
Uoo uputdIcu clOSc up 70 Tue SuOulucE, DuL
he could not withstand the shock and died
yesterday morning. BE was chsinmaker
by trade, said he had no home or friends and
had come from Sharon, Pa, few days ago.
The, Coroner will hold an inquest this
morning.
At the foot of Union alley, Allegheny,
little Lena Heekner, aged II years, was
playing on a log in. the river early yester-
day morning. Suddenly she lost her foot
ing, fell into the water. and was drowned.
The body was recovered and taken to the
home of the parents, PAS Sawmill alley.
Alexander Marshall, aged 13 years, while
playing about some freight cars in the Penn
sylvaniaRailroad yards at Thirty third street
last evening, jumped from a car on the track
in front OF an approaching engine and was
instantly killed. The remains were removed
to the morgue and afterward to the home of
his parents at No. 1886 Millwood avenue.
The Coroner will hold an inquest this morn
ing.
A telegram from McKeesport to the Cor
oner last night, reported that woman had
been burned to death at Volk Bros factory,
at that place. The matter will be investi-
gated to-day.
A ditch caved in on John Tillihan, a
workman in the Thirty. sixth ward, yester-
day, and crushed his collar bone.
Harry Sherpal, aged II years, who lives
at the corner OF Center avenue and Craw-
ford street, was chopping piece of meat in
bis fathers butcher shop yesterday morn
ing, when he cut the ends off three fingers
| on his right hand.
Thomas Leisher, aged years, was cross
| ing the Penn avenue cable car tracks near
Highland avenue, yesterday morning, when
car No. 234 came dashing along and struck
the boy, knocking him to one side of the
track, but not seriously hurting him.
James Dinnen, the young Southside
glassworker who was burned last week by
an oil can explosion, was in very critical
condition last night. at the Southside Hos
pital. He has never rallied from the shock
and his recovery is now thought to be al
most impossible.
Mrs. Mary Shmel, who lives in Garfield
village, fell from car No. 202 yesterday
morning at Twenty-eighth street and Penn
avenue, suffering a slight fracture of the
skull. "