Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-31
INJURED BY THE CAR
A LITTLE GIRL PERHAPS FATALLY
HURT ON MAIN STREET.
Knocked Down and Badly
Crushed.

only five years old, was the victim Of an
accident on the City railway line yes
terday afternoon that will probably re-
suit in her death.
II was about thirty feet from the east
side Of Twenty-second street on Main
that at few minutes after o'clock she
was knocked down by an electric car and
so badly mangled that it is thought she
cannot possibly recover
The child had been to see her uncle,
Raphael Jacobini, who lives near the
corner of Eighth and Main, and was re-
turning home accompanied by him.
When the car reached the house OF the
child's father, ID. La Ginestra, the uncle
pulled the bell and the two started to
get oil.
HOW 1T occURRED.
When they reached the door and after
the car had stopped Jacobipi remem-
bered that be had left q bundle on the
seat and went back after it. Meanwhile
the conductor took the bright-eyed little
girl in bis arms and carried her to the
sidewalk on the south side OF the street,
opposite her fathers house. Anxious to
get home she ran around behind the car
from which she bad just been taken and
| directly in front of No. ~, which WAS
going west. The uptown car was run
ming slowly, but the motor-man did not
see Rosa until she was right under the
car, and by the time he stopped. which
was almost Immediately, the little one
had been terribly mangled about the
LETT leg and head.
THE FRANTIC UNCLE.
At first the child's uncle, who had fol-
lowed almost Immediately after her, did
not know what had become of his niece,
| but as soon as he saw her screaming IN
agony and lying on the street very seri-
ously injured he became almost frantic
with grief and wanted to Jump into the
dock.
PfTIABLE SIGHT.
The little one was picked up, helpless
and bleeding. and carriedinto her father
house, No. 220i east Main. The ambu-
lance was called, and responded with DR..
Lawrence in charge. Doctors Michaux
and Oppenhimer were also summoned,
and after brief consultation decided
that it was necessary to amputate the In
| jured member at once. The child was
put under the influence of choroform
and the work OF amputation commenced
without delay. The scene where the
operation was being performed WAS quite
an affecting one, and tho cries OF the
child were heartrending.
THE MoroR-MAN's ACCOUNT.
Shortly aftor the limb he'd been sever.
ed Mr.. Il. L.. Gregory, tho motor-man
on car No. 2S, which ran over the child,
came in the house where the operation
was performed. He was overwhelmed
with grief. To Dispatch reporter
who was present he said: "God in
Heaven knows couldn't help it. The
child got off Car Is and ran around
passing Just in front of my chr. ap
Piled my brakes as soon as could, bui
il was too late. Before | saw tho child
she was under the car. and don't know
whether the wheels passed over her o.
not. The conductor on the other ca
was ringing his oell, but l didn't se
anybody. After the accident my ca
stopped and waited about an hour"
CoMPLET2Ly OVERCOME.
Another reporter approached Mr.. Gre
CORY aud asked him to tell how the acci
dent happened, bot the poor man, OF
hearing the screams OF the child, brok'
down completely AID could not speal
for grief.
BY 6 o'clock the physicians had ampu
tated tho leg OF the child, cutting it OF
above the knee. The wound on it's heaC
was also very severe one, portions o
the skull being broken
SEEN UNDER THE CAR.
The conductor OF tho east-bound car
from which the unfortunate child got of
states that the uncle rung the bell fol
him to stop, which he did. Rosa, afIel
being put on the sidewalk, Immediately
ran around in tho rear OF his car and II
front OF the one going west, and as h,
moved on he saw that ehe was under tho
car passing him.
superintendent Selden and DR.. Mi
chaux visited the home Of the little on'
a few minutes after II o'clock last night
and found her resting very well consid
ering her injuries and somewhat i'm
proved. There is but very faint hops
that she may survive.
The father OF the child is a shoemaker
by trade, and seems TO be in somewhat
destitute circumstances.