The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-01
THE SECOND KILLING.

A Cleveland Drummer Goes Down tho
Game Wny and is Drowned.
The second accident happened at11:4O,
and was no less due to the unsafe con-
dition Of affairs than was the first.
Tie Cincinnati express, Familiarity
known as the "Canon Ball." came in
from Pittsburgh, and after waiting long
enough TO come to a stop, but not for
people TO leave the cars, started out
again. Several persons on the train
whose destination was Wheeling, among
them Prof. j. NJ. Frasher and daughter,
had not time to leave the car before the
train started, and il was stopped in the
yard and they walked back.
pDick knight, drummer for Weld
man, Holmes d Co., wholesale liquor
dealers OF Cleveland, Ohio, was at the
depot to leave on the train. He ex.
pected the train to lie in the station
reasonable length OF time, and was bid.
ding some friends goodbye while people
we're still leaving the train.
Before he expected it the train started
out and he ran to board 1t. While he
was going TO the platform Of the car, q
lady, member OF theatrical company,
Jumped of While the train was in
motion TO keep from being carried out.
Knight caught the railing Of the car
platform with one hand, and held two
light yalises in the other. While at.
tempting to step to tho platform, the
car dragged him against s temporary rail.
ing that was built across the end Of the
hole in the bridge. At Almost the same
instant he reached the place where the
platform goes down fifteen inches at one
offsett, and the result was to pull his
hand from the railing.
He wheeled, and the momentum he
had received threw him against the
order, the top OF which stands about
two feet above the platform. He had
already lost his balance, and in one mo.
ment, almost, he and his valises went
oyer into the creek.
He ISL with crash, broke through |
the Ice, and vas Geen no more.
His valises were lying on the ice near
a large hole which his body made 90.
ing through:
Edward Thompson, the station bag
gage man, and Bickell Shepherd, who
accompanied him to the traiL, saw him
20 over, and hurried to the spot.
All was dark below, save for the siCkly !
glare made by the three incandescent
lights used 10 light that part Of the sta.
ton. Lanterns we're lowered and the
valIses were easily seen. A graphing |
hook was procured and the valises |
hauled up. One OF them had samples Of
whisky in It, which were broken and
running out. On the vGlise was an ad. |
dress card bearing the following:
"RiChard Knight, 40 James street,
Cleveland, Ohio"
Several plans were suggested Tor going
down onto the ice, which was Consid-
cred unsafe, to search for him. Fioally
Chief Healy went to the Hook and Lad
der house and procured short ladder,
which was lashed to u strong rope.
Frank Brain, a Quincy driver, voiun.
tered to 60 down, and was lowered
down on the ladder. He found Knights
hat In few minutes, and then the hole
through which he had gone into ths
water. The graphing hook tied to a
rope was used IN the hole, but to no
avail.
knight was fiue looking man, about
thirty years old, with dark hair and
moustache, six feet tall, weighing about
lS5 pounds.
The first accident caused general con.
demnation Of the Baltimore & Ohio
Company for leaving such death trap
in its passenger station. The second in.
tanuifad this !ntn INDIGNATION. ne warm