New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-19
CRUSHED BY ELECTRIC CA RS.
TWO DEAD AND A THIRD MORTALLN
HURT.
4 sCHooLBOY IN NEWARK AND BABY GIRL
IN THIS CITY KILLED UNDER THE WHEELS
A FATAL ACCIDENT IN BROOKLYN.

Charles Henry Oxley eight years old, was struck
nv a Newark and Orange electric and crushed
to death Central-ave and NewarK-st. Ill
Newark yesterday. at noon. The motorman'
Thomas Ulrch of No. 30 Orleans-st., and the con-
ductor j. Hamilton, arrested. The lad was
a pupil of the Central-ave. public school, OF
which Mr. George o. F. Taylor is principal Soon
after the noon recess yesterday Charlie and
several companions began playing about the school
building. Charlie ran in front of an electric car
which spectators of the accident say, was going
slowly up grade at the time Although the motor
man shouted to him and applied the brakes
quickly, the boy was struck and thrown on his
face lengthwise between the tracks. The next in
slant the unfortunate lads head was crushed be-
tween the fender of the and the cobbestones.
The car reversed, and again the fender
mangled the lads head and face. When the boy
was taken out he was alive but unconscious. He
was dead when St Mchaels Hospital was reached
The motorman says he could not avoid the accident.
The first probably fatal accident by the
trolley in the Eastern District OF Brook
lyn occurred yesterday afternoon at Kent
ave- and North Twelth-st., the victim be
ing fve-year-old Thomas Mccormack, who lived
with his widowed mother at No. l6i Franklin-st
Thomas, with his younger brother. had been sent
by his mother. who is in extremely poor circum-
stances to purchase a loaf OF stale bread Promising
to get back soon as possible the boys jumped on
a passing truck going toward Grand-st. At North
started 10 run the street His younger
brother followed Just at that time trolley car of
the Greenpont line rushing along toward him,
in charge of Motorman Thomas Costigan of No
50 Java-st. The boy did not the approach
ing and in view of many passersby, ran directly
in front Of II. He knocked down, but before
the wheels had passed over his body the car was
stopped. Many willing hands were quickly at his
side and the little fellow carried unconscious to
a neighboring drugstore. The boys skull had been
fractured. He taken to the Eastern District
Hospital where the doctors said last night he could
not live
When the boy was struck his brother was within
a few feet of him and barely escaped meeting the
same fate. The motorman was arrested The
mother OF the boy. when she heard OF the fate or
her child. went nearly frantic with grief.
An electric motor car of the Second-av line
crushed child to death at One-hundred- -and M
teenthst. yesterday. Gracia Gasparine, an Italian
girl not quite two years old. whose parents live at
No. 33l East One-hundred- and -ffteenth-st, was
toddlDg across the avenue at 1890 a. m. when the
struck her. She knocked down. run over
and killed instantly. and her body was mangled by
the wheels. Henry Clements, the motorman on the
car. said later that ne did not see the child until
she was directly In front of the car, and II was
then too late for him TO stop in time to save her.
He was arrested and will be arraigned In the Har-
lem Police Court to-day