The evening world., 1891-07-29
CRUSHED OUT A CHILD'S LIFE.
Eleventh. Avenues JusSernaut Claims
Another Victim.
Little Mamie Horn Mangled by q
Central Freight Engine.

Another victim has been added TO the
already long list of the terrible iuggernaut
on Eleventh avenue and the residents along
that busy thoroughiare are up In arms against
the death-dealing New York Central trains
that daily pass their doors.
The latest victim Is pretty Mamie Horn,
the goIden-haired eight-year-old daughter Of
Joseph Horn, II 542 West Fitty-siNth street,
who was run down and crushed to death by
locomotive IN broad daylight yesterday at
Eleventh avenue and Fifty-nfrh street.
About o'clock In the afternoon Mamie and
her mother went 10 grocery store on
Eleventh avenue. near Fifty-nrh street. Mrs.
Horn purchased a few groceries, and giving
Mary some money. told her to goto a bakery
up Firy-nfth street, near Tenth avenue, for
a Loaf 0 bread.
but Mamie knew "a better place just
across the railroad tracks, on Eleventh ave-
nue., where she could get a little cake free
with the Loaf II bread, and on she trotted
gayly after the coveted sugar loaf
Her mother went home, expecting little
Mamie % follow soon, but when Mamie did
come her little form was cold In death and
manglud almost beyond rec gniti1n.
Ms Horn had not been home twenty min
utes when her husband came rushing In from
his work AZ "A foundry near by, his face pale
In spite u The dirt and dust that covered It.
lis Mamie here t' he gesprd.
/ "Eo, not yet, replied Mrs. Horn. she's gone
/ 10 the bakery"
/ MY God. I'm arralIit', true. ." exclaimed
/ thu father, who had Just been tod that a little
/ girl resembling Mamie had bcen run over at
/ tify-n'th street.
| he fastened to tAc crossing, and, crOwdlng
| through the thrJhg, glanced a. the lifelrss
/ little form that lay beside the railroad track.
| one glance was enough. Horn recognized
/ the LITTLE shoes as thus" he had bought Tor
Mamie only saturday night, and the grief
. stricken man tUttsrrd home 10 tell his wife Of
| their s0TrOwful bereavement
l. The best account ~ the accident Is given by
Wary Ward, driver for 4. I. >ChueldeT who
keeps feed store near the crossing.
/ - was On my truck said Ward this
| morning. when saw the little girl run out
from the bakery with Loaf ot bread under
her arm. In her other hand she held little
"A freight train had just gone along, and
engine No. 10, running light, was coming
about block behind Il. The little girl must
have seen the engine, for she ran along
lengthwise OF the tracks TO Try and cross
ahead oft
~ shouted AZ her frst and when she didn't
stop yelled at the men qn tbs engine,
holiered "a hard as ! could and waved my
arms, but It was no usS, and before could
get down the little girl had started across
about ten or tfteen feet ahead OF the engine
IL yelled again: For Gods sake, stop !!
but no one seemed to hear, although men all
around on all the corners were shouting then.
THE next minute the step on the mont
caught her aud threw her under the wheels,
and the engine passed over her.
81 tell YOU II made my heart Jump right
into my month. but what could dot Maybe
the engineer couldn't hear me, but he ought
To have heard the men shouting on his side, It
seems 10 ME.
Then, TOO, II the fireman had been looking
out IN his own side he couldn't have helped
seeing me, or, for that matter, the child herSeln
The engine wasn't going 50 fast but what Il
could have been stopped, and ! believe the
childs life could have been saved.
when the engineer did stop he was near
half a block up the avenue. fe didn say
anything, but he did wait ten or tfteen min
utes for policeman, and when none came he
Jumped on his engine and went up 10 the
siXty-nfth street ward.
at was fully half an hour before a police
man arrived. Then Oricer Golden came and
looked at the child and then went away and
ffteen minutes past before a policeman
came with permit for the father 70 remove
the body, and the poor little thing lay there
IN the mud and rain all that time.
~ covered her up wish my apron, and when
II began To rain put rubber coat over her.
guess she lived three or four minutes, and
Just before she died she smiled She still had
the cake in her little nst, and there were cake
crumbs on her lips"
John Wade, the ragman at Firy-nrh
street, c0rrobOTAtes Wards story. He was on
the south crossing on the other side OF the
street and unable TO reach the little one be-
fore she was struck Wade asked the en-
gtneer, william MunnIn, why he didn't stop,
and he replied:
IL didn't SEE her"
Murnin had not been arrested this morning,
and the sergeant in charge at the West
Forty-srventh street police station said he
would not b. unless the Coroner, IN whose
charge the case was, directed II. He declared
the little girls death purely accidental
| While II may be true little NAMES death
was accidental, that does not satisfy poor
Joe Horn and his wife, who are to-day
| stricken with grief.
Engineer Murnin, the residents along the
avenue say, Is sixty years old, and perhaps he
cannot hear or see too well Then, again,
they object 10 having the always threatening
! danger In their midst, anyway.
It's bad enough said prominent mer-
chant this morning, " 10 have the thing here
anyway. They ought 20 take the tracks
away entirely,
d" II might b. an improvement II they ran
their trains slow, and yet No. 10 was running
slow enough last night. Sometimes the
/ duly, the train that runs from spuyteu
DuVyil, goes by here az fifteen miles an hour
and ! -hudder every time for fear my OWL
children will b. the next victims