The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-12-25
CRUSHED UNDER THE WHEELS
Rr. ". 4. Burton Run OTer by an Electric
Car on Franklin Street.
BOTH OF HIS LEGS WERE MAhGLED
And One Had to DO Amputated-The Chances
Are Against Ills Rccoyery-Par-
ticuiars of the Accident.

| sudden, sickening accident happened yes
terday afternoon at 4 o'clock immediately
where Seventeenth street divides the two
long buildings Of the Old market that
caused shudder Of horror 10 pass through
the frames Of the many who were witnesses
/ 10 the occurrence.
At that hour car No 78, Of the Union Pas
senger line east-bound. with Conductor
| W. Palmer in charge and MotOrman J. Kloss
at the brake, approached tho crowded
crossing between the two market buildings.
a JosTLISG THRoSo.
On account Of its being Christmas eve. and
the consequent outpouring Of every class Of
/ housekeepers 10 provide for the dinner Of to-
day tins busy place was filled with busting,
/ Iostling thT0ng. The street between the
| two portions OF the market was. as Is always
the case on such occasion. filed with con-
stanty crossing stream Of people.
! The car. heavily laden with passengers had
lost us momentum incident 10 tie trip down
/ the hill from the Exchange Hotel and was aD-
/ preaching the market st a moderate speed.
/ The motorman rang his bell, the crowd
| divided and with an apparently clear track
! the car WAS starting on the up grade to
l Church Hill when a man stepped from the
! crowd Immediately in front OF the car. Ills
( head was down and he had only time 10 place
/ one foot across the rail when the right for
/ ward end Of the car struck him aud Knocked
! him from the track
! In falling. however. he TUNED and fell
with the lower part OF his legs on the rail,
and IN that position they were run over and
/ both broken. while the ankle of tie right
! foot was horribly crushed. He was at once
taken TO the First police station, in the Old
] rnurkat IrriTfusr nj tho urr,lr
called.
THE UNFORTUNATE MAN.
The unfortunate man IS named ". A. Bur-
| ton and is an iron-mOulder by trade. lie was
! living with his wife and several children at
! 709 north Twenty-third street
Il being learned that he was in reduced cir
| cUmstances he was taken 10 the almshOuse,
where lie could secure prompt surgical atten-
ton
Those who witnessed the accident are
unanimous IN the opinion that II was in no
way the fault Of the mOtOrmIn, but simply
one of those occurrences which occasionally
take place in every large city against all rea-
sOnabe precautions. lnstantaneOuslY with
the appearance of the man IN front Of the
car the mOtormsa swung 10 the brake with
all Ms power and stopped the car IN little
over Its own length.
40 HELP FOR IT.
As before stated. however the man was too
close when he first. stepped on the track 10
be saved by any effort Of those on the car.
no one seemed 70 know how II occurred
that the man stepped on the track when the
car was SO close & HIM.
Mr.. A. I. Mann, of Danyille, q passenger
was riding on the front platform with the
motorman and saw the man step from the
crowd on 10 the track. He says he was so
close 90 the car when he stepped out that he
could have almost touched him with his hand
from the platform. and that his appearance
and the collision were almost simultaneous.
The passengers in the car knew nothing Of
the accident until Il was over. excepttO feel
the jar caused by the wheels running over lis
limbs.
Police Captain Peasants, who was stand
inc on the curbstone, with his back TO the
car. engaged in conversation. heard the first
CRY of alarm and Immediately turned being
in time to see the last wheel run over the
mans right foot. The other leg was not on the
track at that time.
Others who saw the accident testify that
the man was turned around by the shock
from the car and fell under the wheels after
the forward end Of the car had passed him.
Ills 1rG AMrUTATED.
Shortly after the injured man was taken TO
the Almsh0use Hospital bis left leg was am
putated between the ankle and knee and the
rioht foot taken or. Drs. Treyilian. Robin
son and Field performed the operation.
Ara late hour last night the sufferer was
alive, but his condition was reported very
critical aud the chances rather against bis
recovery.
Mr. Burton has quite large family and
one Of his sons - now at home suffering
from a severe burn on the foot received some
time ago.