The evening world., 1891-04-23
KILLED ON THE |.
An Unknown Man Ground 10 Pieces on
the Second Avenue Line
Employees Close by, but None
Saw the Tragedy.
Facts That Lead the Ohlcials to
Think 1t Was q Suicide.

Another OF those shocking tragedies which
have been Of such frequent occurrence OF late
on the elevated railroad, took place early this
morning on the Second avenue line At the
Fifty-seventh street station.
An unknown man was run over BY train
and killed within o stones throw Of half q
dozen employees OF the company, and yet all
Of them deny tnat they saw the accident, and
declare that they have no idea how II hap
pened.
The victim Of this latest tragedy In o young
man about thirty years old. aud he looks like
q workman. lie has DARK curly hair, blue
eyes, and small dark mustaoho and stubbly
beard.
Hts body was fearfully mangled by the
wheels, which passed over his right arm, al
most severing 1t from the body, and the left
side OF his skull 10 crushed In above the eye.
Death must nave been instantaneous.
The accident occurred at IL go this morning.
on the uptown track. The train was the last
one up on the Second avenue line for the night
The engineer was Thomas McCann, the fire.
man John Boyle and the conductor g. Il. Gold
smith.
Thomas Lynch, the station agent on the east
blutt bhyb tuht w Echeluboib uCetuk 'ho youhk
man a, the ticket window few minutes be-
fore the arrival OF the train. He did not see
him after he had purchased his ticket and had
passed out to the platform.
Timothy Burke, the ticket chopper, is the
last person who saw the young man alive. he
says that after dropping his ticket In the box
the man walked down to the lower end Of the
platform.
The train was then approaching in the dis
tance, and the locomotive headlight could be
seen at the next station below.
"There were no other passengers on the
platform at that time, t" says Burke, "anu
noticed that when the man reached the lower
end Of the platform he began pacing up and
down.
"It was 30 dark that I could not see his
| face, and he never came up near me during
the whole time. 1t did not strike me that there
was anything peculiar either In his appearance
or his action. Thought he was only waiting
| for the train to 90 uptown, and did not pay
particular attention to him.
"Just before the train arrived at the station
my attention was taken from him by another
passenger who came up to the gaze and asked
me question.
1.-THE train came up and suddenly stopped
before the locomotive had gone more than
| twenty feet beyond the lower end Of the plat
form. looked down the platform, but
could see nothing OF the man. He had dis
appeared"
Engineer McCann's story Is that Just before
tho locomotive reached the station platform,
and the train had slowed up, he felt sudder
shock. Thinking that something might bt
i olt ha hah n n hat urtt n y
on the track and there had been no one on the
lower end OF the platform an he came up,
he put on the steam brakes and stopped the
train almost instantly.
Lanterns were procured, and search made.
The body OF the unknown man was found
wedged tightly In between the wheels and the
guard of the forward truck of the first car.
He had evidently been dragged along In tina,
position for several yards, for the ties and the
tracks were bespotted with blood for some dis,
tance below the lower end OF the platform
The man was dead when found. The body
| was 80 firmly wedRed In between the wheell
Of the truck that the locomotive had to be un.
coupled and taken away before 1t could be re-
moved.
The theory OF the railroad ON q ais IL thai
the man committed suicide. In order TO reach
the spot where he was struck by the train ht
| must have climbed down the little stairway ai
the end Of the platform leading TO the track,
and ran no along the footway beside the raili
| for a considerable dis,apce TO meet the train as
| 1t was approaching the station.
Its thought that ho threw n,mself between
the truck of the locomotive and the forward
car. his head striking the forward bufrer.
twisting his body around 40 that the wheels Of
the car caught his right arm and side.
| When the body had been removed 10 IN,
platform Policeman Thomas Kelly. Of the
| Fifty. v.nrst street station. was nummoped and
after taxing the Abatement of the ticket agent.
pa,eman and engineer the BODY visa carried ,r
IN. nn,,oe sta,,on. where II Law ,b,a morn,ng or
a bench in the back yard. covered with a piecs
| ot sackin1.
Nh arrests ware made ana tho no,,ce op m,
tneorv that IL vas A case of sn,c,d. sec,a,,
thai there ia no neoessI,v Of ,urthey invsst,y.,
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