The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-05
4 LITTLE CHILD STRUCK
nv an Electric Car on the South
Side Last Evening.
( Distressing FATAL ACCIDENT
On chaplIuo Street Below Twenty
serenth...Thc Occurrence UnavOid-
opIe...somcthins for Parents TO Re-
acct Upon-.Few Such NIishaps in
the Past.

a 4 quarter past seven o'clock last
rirbt Ola, a three-year-old child of Mr..
:, T, Moore, living ut 1928 chapline
Greet. was run over at point just OPP
n,.itc her home, and received fatal in
jaries -.
nj the usual speed, Operator l. L. Gump
tripr in the box. When the car was
almost opposite whore the child stood
sbo started to run across the street
,isbt in front Of it. The distance was
,oo short to stop it, although Gump
n,IIed the lever down hard and as far
as,it would go. The child was struck
and shocked down, and the wheel over
which Viii the chain runs, know as the
snrocket wheel, ran over her right arm
I'd right leg. The leg was cut through
At me thigh so badly that it merely
Lrny bv shred OF skin, While the arm
%asi also badly mashed and cut. Per-
IONS %I who were standing near picked her
q" yU nsnI stood her on her feet, and she
Sacred at first to be almost unhurt.
,,..:rte for
1aoment, but she bled badly, and soon
bcg1n to cry and call for her mamma.
SI,e was carried into her parents house
and Bls. Baguley and Pipes were sum
mongl, and did what they could to
aforl her relief, but they saw at once
that she could not recover
The child's cries were pititul, and
,bey became momentarily. weaker rs
her life cbbed slowly away. A man
Standing on the sidewalk when the ac-
s,dens occurred was so affected by the
horrible sight that he tainted The
spectacle was described as heart-rend-
10 blame can be attached to the OPP
orator OF the car or to anybody else. 1t
has beenn matter Of frequent remark
that il is wonderful that more such ac-
cidents do not happen. Children, and
especially the children in that vicinity
ofthe South Side where this accident
occurred, are shockingly reckless about
the cars. 1t is no uncommon sight to
see the steps on one side Of one OF the
summer ears fuil of small children. If
the conductor or the operator interferes
the children are as likely to throw a
brick or something else at them. Even
the parents OF these children resent any
ATTEMPT 10 keep them out oil, danger. A
recent case was observed by q reporter
where a child was on the track in front
Of the car and made no effort to get off.
The car was stopped and the conductor
rot of and carried the kid to the side
walk, when its parents, who were sit
ting on their doorstep, laughed heartily
At what they considered good joke on
the conductor.
The electric cars have been marvsl-
ously fortunate as to accidents since
they were started. In all the time since
they have been in use here there have
been hut four fatal accidents with them,
and in no case could the slightest blame
be attached 10 anybody on the car. In
North Wheeling, when the cars were
snOvelty, boy was killed at the turn
table In Benwood u child, lone OF a
number who habitually got about the
tum.able at every trip OF the car, to the
great annoyance OF the operator, was
accidentally run over. AT Twenty
second street q drunken man was run
over and killed, and another child was
fatally hurt. In other places accidents
o. this character are muGhtmore COM
mon.
Last evenings accident was one of the
saddest that ever occurred, and nobody
could have prevented its occurrence. If
parents would learn, however, to keep
their children off the street, there would
believer such shocking accidents.