St. Paul daily globe., 1891-03-22
KILLED BY AN ICICLE.
Singular and Sad Fatality to
an Unidentified Young
Woman.
Struck by a Cake Of Ice
Knocked From the Cham
ber Of Commerce.
The Delegation Votes Against
Teaching Germanin Gram
mar Schools.
RadinO Breaks Down When
the Sentence for Life is
Pronounced.

The cold. rigid, marble-lIke body of a
comely little woman awaits indentifi-
cation at Mccarthy & Donnelly's under
taking establishment on Wabasha street.
She is the victim of all extraordinarily
sad accident, and the sadness deepenS
hour by hour, as she remains at the
morgue- unidentified, unclaimed and
unmourDed. Little did this poor
woman think, when she left her home
yesterday afternoon. that she would be
CHASTITY corpse in lonely morgue
last night. The accident which caused
her death is one of infrequent occur
that there are not more fatal accidents
of the same nature.
About 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
w. s. MOffett, the colored janitOr of the
Chamber of Commerce, went onto the
roof of that building for the purpose of
looSening and precipitating to the street
a coat of ice about an inch and half
thick which had accumulated upon the
caves. While he was doing this work
another colored man was stationed in
front of the building, on Sixth street,
to warn paSSerS-by to be on the lookout
for falling ice. A woman, however,
escaped the eye of this colored guard
and walked along the sidewalk directly
below where Moffett was busily ell
gagged in knocking the ice from the
roof. She was not warned of the dan
ger to which she was exposing herself
and walked right under huge piece of
ice which was coming through the air
at terrific rate of speed. A gentleman
standing on the corner noticed the
Wnman'c narilOnS nnSitinn and rQlipd
to her to run. Instead of running, how
ever, the frightened woman turned her
head back so as to look abOve-and Just
at that moment the big piece of ice
struck her in the forehead. She fell to
the sidewalk as if dead. Nearly score
of men witnessed the awful accident
and fastened to the spot where the
injured woman lay. She was bleeding
copiously from deep cash in the fore
head. but she was not unconscious.
''Oh, my head, my head. Where am
~ was the Oft-repeated exclamation of
the Door woman, as she was being picked
up from the sidewalk and placed on
Stretcher. In few minutes the central
patrol wagon arrived upon the spot and
conveyed her to the city hospital. On
the way the officers in charge of the
wagon noticed that the woman was dy-
ing. She became unconscious soon
after placed in the wagon, and died
within few minutes after she reached
the hospital. The hospital physicians
dressed the body and sent it to Nc
Carthy Il Donnelly's undertaking estab-
lishment on Wabasha street, where it
now awaits Identification.
There were no papers or anything
about the woman to reveal her identity.
She wore two gold rings bearing the
inscriptions: IS. to Eva" and IS. G. to
E. R.' She was dressed in neat, but
we'll worn, black dress, a plush seal
cloak with long brown fur trimmings,
and sealSllin cap covered with light
veil. She is very small woman, her
height being little more than five feet,
and her weight less than 100 pounds.
She is apparently twenty-five years old;
dark brown hair and pointed features.
County Attorney O'Brien, when ques-
toned about the accident last night,
said there was nothing criminal about
it. The police made strenuous efforts
10 identify the body last night, but were
unable to do so. Lieut.. Phil SchweitZer
notified all the suDstations of the acci-
| dent. and ordered all officers to do what
they could toward finding the home and
relatives of the dead woman.