The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-10
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT
To a Wagon Load of Pleasure
Seekers Yesterday Afternoon.
THE LARGE WAGON ISOYERTURNED
And Five People arc Badly Hurt, but
how Dangerously Cannot yet be
Told-sOeminGly Marvellous Escape
of tho Eight Other Occupants of
the VehIole-The Wagon Broken
Somewhat.

There was an exciting accident on
McColloch street, in the Eighth ward,
shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon, by which five persons were Sc
riously hurt, and from the character OF
the occurrence the only wonder seems
that all the thirteen people in the wag-
on were not killed or terribly injured.
AS it was eight escaped with tritliug
bruises, scarcely worth mentioning,
The wagon had one wheel broken oil
and the iron frame OF the canopy top
was crushed out OF shape,
The wagon belonged to Louis Asmus,
the South Side liveryman, and the team
TO Henry RAIDER, teamster, who had
borrowed the wagon to drive party
out the Caldwell run road. The party
consisted of thirteen persons, ten grown
up, including the driver and three
children, They boarded the large pic
mic Wagon at the corner Of Thirty-sixth
and MeColloch streets, at the home Of
Edward Marchner, glass decorator
employed at tho Hobbs works, whose
family and some friends made up the
crowd.
About Thirtieth street the horses
began to run, and RAIDER pulled them
up pretty shortly, which caused the
double-trees to strike the team on the
legs, startling them and rendering them
unmanageable. RAIDER, knowing sharp
turn must be made at Oaldwell's run,
undertook to check the teams speed by
turning it diagonally across the street
and then back.
The wagon swerved and slid, the
right hind wheel striking the east curb
about two hundred feet south OF the
McColloCh street bridge over the run.
The wheel was badly broken, and in
turning again the wagon was over.
turned, the horses continuing their
speed for perhaps fifty or hundred
feet and headed directly for the high
and unprotected bank Just west Of the
little bridge. Fortunately tho horses
were stopped by the resistance OF the
wagon they were dragging when they
were within perhaps seventy-fve feet
OF the run. Had the wagon gone over
into the run, every person in it must
have been killed.
1t was found that tho wagon had
turned almost exactly upside down,
striking on the stiff iron frame which
supported the canvas cover. This was
mashed out OF shape, but it protected
the inmates from the most serious con-
sequences.
Henry RAIDER the driver, was thrown
from his high seat and caught beneath
the front end of the wagon. His right
ankle was broken, his head badly cut
and he was severely bruised all over.
Mrs. Edward Marschner was pinned
down by the broken wheel, the weight
resting on her chest and abdomen,
crushing and bruisng her terribly, and
inhicting internal injuries the full OK.
tent OF which cannot yet be told.
A boy who was riding on RAIDERS sent
beside him, jumped or was thrown off
before the wagon turned over, and
fractured his arm near tho wrist. He
il grandson Of Mr.. Marschner.
Edward Marschner was painfully but
not dangerously cut and bruised, us
was also another Of the male passengers.
They were both able to walk and attend
to their own wounds, however.
The other passengers crawled from
the wreck, and Mrs. Rittner, Of Fostoria,
daughter OF Mr.. Marschner, carried
her two small children in her arms, all
being unhurt
Mrs. Rlttner, in the excitement OF
the moment, undertook TO lift the
heavy wagon from Mrs. MarsChner's
breast, crying: "0h, my poor mother!
My mother is killed" It required the
combined strength Of twelve or fifteen
men to right the wagon.
Mrs. Marschner was carried into
William Auber's house, near the scene
OF the accident. where medical aid was
rendered, and she was then taken in a
carriage to her home at the corner OF
McCulloch and Thirty.sixth streets.
RAIDER was taken to John Wonders
house, on McColloch street next the
run. At first it was thought his ankle
was only dislocated, but when Drs.
Ridgeway and Manley examined 1t they
found it badly broken. The pain was
so intense that RAIDER swooned repeat.
cdly. After his leg was SGT he was
taken in the city patrol wagon to Mrs.
Ackermann's boarding house, 1924
McCollocl street, Lieutenant Terrill
accompanying him.
The runaway and accident created
tho most intense excitement in the vi
cinity, and large crowd Of people
gathered in wonderfully short time.
Some very exaggerated stories we're
soon alloat, and 1t was difficult at first
to aft the truth from these.