The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-28
MT BY AA''l"ENGINE.
Anton Edezky Knocked Down and
Dragged Along the Track.
Law Bleeding and Conscious While
Trains Rolled Over Him.
vust Nave Climbed the Pillars to
Get Upon the Structure.

Anton Edezky, Russian. rorty-elght
..ars old, OF 100 East Eighty fourth
,,oe, was found just after midnight
,rirg on the tracks of the Elevated road
Mich runs through Pearl street. mid
raw betwse the Franklin Square and
ynlton street stations. He Is now
wing in a dying condition In Chambers
Street Hospital. d.. o.. nr-
From his appearance when found, the
nan had evidently been dragged for
more than 100 yards along the track, by
an engine. How he got on the structure,
and how long he lay there before being
SEN may never be known. unless he
,coyers sufficiently to explain.
There is a Third avenue train which
Aayes South Ferry at midnight, bound
untown. When this train got a block
,hove the Fulton street station this
morning the engineer, looking along
he tracks, saw in the dim light the
body Of the man lying on the structure
m the centre, between the tracks. The
ngineer had scarcely caught sight of
he body before the entire train had
assed over 1t.
Two blocks further along, at the
franklin square station, the engineer
eported the matter to Gateman Henry
Bodt
As soon as the train pulled out Of the
ration, Boldt hurried along the tracks
hntll he arrived at the point where the
man lay 1t was Just at a portion of the
oad where the structure makes a sud-
ben turn. and Boidt was upon the body
Utmost as soon as he could see it.
The mans clothes were torn, and ex-
bove the hip, large wound, from
which. as the injured man grcaned and
moved convulsively, the blood flowed,
Ind running along the ties OF the struc-
pure trickled down Into the street.
The right side of Ills body was badly
crapeJ and bruised rs though he had
beer dragged along the beams for a
great distance, His face was covered
with blood and there were a dozen or
more deep cuts upon his head.
As soon as Boldt saw the condition of
The man he ran along to the Fulton
street station and called to the gateman
there. Then they hurri I'd back and car
red the injured man to the latter sta
ton, where the operator had already
telesraphed for an ambulance to Cham
bers Street Hospital
Policeman Charles A. Schultz had been
p Pearl street, below the Elevated road
tructure, and had seen two men car
tyins third as they passed by one of
h5 electric lights on the structure. He
tas up on the station platform by the
lime the man was laid down. as COM
orlably as possible.
The man was not unconscious. and
before the ambulance came the po-
iceman had learned his name and ad-
tress and also that he was a butcher.
Edezky spoke no English, and his Ger
han was almost incoherent. He had
Dot the slightest idea, he said, how he
(ot on the tracks.
He remembered walking along. and
Zen he was struck by an engine, knocked
pown and dragged along. lie had seen
he bright care of the headlight and
knew that he had been caught by the
iie Of the engine in some way, for he
Jaw beside him the great revolving
1ee.s. That 10 all he gould say.
Ambulance Surgeon Taylor, said that
be believed his skull was fractured in
everal PAGES. From the nature of his
Wounds ami the condition of his Clothes,
he physician believed the man had been
assed along the track for one hundred
lards at least How ne had escaped
Death It was impossible TO say.
To the physician the injured man
ald that he was single and lived with
he family of Ernest Schmidt. He had
BOT worked for a long time, he said.
He could not lind any work to do. He
PERSISTED that he had not tried to com.
ply suicide, and repeated that he did
BOT know how the accident happened
Re was removed to the hospital In u
ylng condition.
The employees of the Elevated road
Immediately started about trying to de-
lamine how the man had got on the
nucture. This morning they said they
n1 not yet decided. They We're quite
pre- that he had not gone up by either
the stations. No one had seen IL per.
nh like him, for they would certainly
ave noticed a man In his bare feet.
The police believe that EdeZky climbed
by one of the pillars. Twenty feel
kyond the Franklin Square station the
paoe of the street brings the station
pay near to the street, and 1t would
ave been very easy for the man tc
I'VE climbed UP there. That point il
dden from The station platform by the
irving of the track, ana II the mar
Nd climbed up there he could never
ave been .scen. Then, too, had h
Embed up there and been struck by
De engine at that point he could have
zen dragged about the distance calcu
ed 10 the place where he was found
one o! the men connected with the roat
"a heard OF any engineer whose engine
ld struck the man.
The Elevated railroad officials are con
eatl% looking for accidents of thi
IND The pillars OF the IL" road ar
PANTY built like s,epladders, and boy
ave agreat habit OF climbing VI
md putting their heads through tn
feste-work. They wait until an engin
almost upon them before lowering
Aelr neads. On one occasion last weel
nat was actually knocked OF boy
aead BY an engine.
The officials threa ten IA make an ex