The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-29
A DANGEROUS CROSSING.
The Inquest as to the Death of
DaVy Rivers.
Even the Railroad Men Admit That the
Randan-street Crossing Is Dangerous
Flace-NO Warning Given.

The inquest by Coroner GarHc0d as Il
the cause of the deaf % title Dave Rivers,
the boy wh8 *as kilied on July 19 last al
8sses iI-street crossing BY a Southern Pacifs
passenger train, was resumed YESTERDAY
ale neon 2, $50 O'clock.
The Coroner Office aas erowdsa -siss
friends Of The -smily Of the 10y and VII
nesses s. the oeeurren~s
Jades Blake an. Attorney Williams Of
Plake ETallo.- - Harrison were preseBi
10 rey.--ent he parents Of the boy Rivers
-aine Fosehay Walker represented tbs
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
The hras witness called was Or. Williams,
who described the wounds as found upon 4
post morfem examination Of the body. DR..
Clark BdrDham, the resident physician 81
ST. Luke's Hospital. followed him IN the
stand and told bow the boy, David Rivers,
had been brought 10 the hospital in a diving
condition by Station Agent Cto8e OF the
Southern Pacific, Uhc IS N charge Of the
depot al Valencia and Iwenty-ffth stree
Tie next witness was Henry aepeiEee -
alias Henry N9rEar laa 3riFer If -
81 ger ~ hl01 yae Fe we're u34Ing when
TIE trau 1 adgon and killed
y rers
l1s t0i- now the boys climbed on the hay
agon when near Haley's feed barn and
had ridden on down with him to the cross
ing at Randall street.
Il slowed up" said the witness, "as we
approached the crossing and before | knew
IL me engine was on top Of me. / heard
no bell or whistle. The warning bell at the
crossing did not ring. | would have heard
u IL IL did. The crossing is just at the end
oil cut and you can't see a train any dis
lance away. | never saw or heard the traL,-
unui IL was right down on GIe- I IN ri q
otiuch the wagon somewhere near the hind
"heei anc We were all thrown out"
Wffnass 1.-s.s
alarm. Tue
David Lynch. aged 10 years. and living
Win MS parents on the corner of Dame and
hahdall streets, next testified. He was ono
OF me Boys on the wagon and was serionsIv
n ouIe ny peI9s thrown on into the road. He
cofTouorated the drivers statement az fa
there being no warning of the approarbing
IRAN anu swore that he did not see or hear
me Train until 1t was too late 10 hmm and
save himself. lie also swore that the eIec-
tIiC Do!i at he crossing was often broke
preaching "oie ap-
: D. X. Cassidy and Robert NJ. Dunne. fhe
nleifah ana conductor, respectively. on the
falh that Killed the bov, swore tbat tho
~ ~ dih was gong only ten miles an hour. that
tle ehRihe-oell was ringing when the encina
b~a,' tIIe wagon ana that the whistle had
Oteh down as warning when the train
was lVO yards away from The crossing
Both men admitted that tie crossing IL a
numerous one and that they could not tell
wnetler or not the danger signal was in
working order :"
ne engineer. Daniel McKillopp. enr-
IoDorated the fremau's story. The CON
uuctOr, robert M. Dunno, testified that he
was on the bageage-car and did not see the
acc, lie first knew that an accident
were applied. He thought that The ,rain
was running at the rate of 10 miles an bonr.
Two women who live near the scene Of
me accident testified that sometimes the
oe ~, rings and sometimes il does not.
this morning. ~ "i0'A