Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-21
UNDER THE CARS WHEELS
AI.ONzO n, MONDAY MEETS
HIS DEATH,
The Young Man Jumps From q
W. A. Il Q. .. Car In Front of
One ON the Asheville Line ON
Depot street And Is Instantly
Killed.

AtIIeu.
Alonzo Hilary Monday. a son OLA. c
Monday, living on Depot street near tn,
Glen Rock hotel, was run over and in
stantly killed by car No. s of the Ashe
vile Street Railroad Co., Motormar
Dan W. Brown and Conductor !. M
Barker, at 12:45 today. The accide nj
occurred short distance below Mr..
Mondays residence and 125 feet from
the mouth of Bartlett street.
The body was frightfully mangled, the
face being unrecogrizable. The top ol
the skull was crushed in, both arms and
both legs were broken and from horri.
bic wound on the left leg the shattered
bones protruded.
Charles Monday was sitting in his
fathers doorway, saw the car strike his
brother and ran to his assistance, but
was too late to save him.
The Carmen's State ments.
Conductor Barker's statement to THE
CITIZEN is as follows:
1--WE had left the freight depot on the
uptown trip, about 12;45. We met the
Sulphur Springs car at point between
Mondays store and the crossing where
the Sulphur Springs line leaves Depot
street. A man jumped off the rear end of
the Springs car and in front of our car,
and about two feet from the front of our
car. Mr., Brown, the motorman, re-.
versed the car, but it rolled perhaps six
feet before it could be stopped. We found
the body of the man, Mr.. Monday, un-
der the car, and between the machines.
The car had to be Jacked up before the
body could be taken out. The body was
taken out by Charles Monday, a brother
OF the man run over"
Motorman Browns statement is much
the same as Conductor Barker's. He
says that when Mr.. Monday struck the
ground he. Mr.. Brown, caught at the
young man in an endeavor to avert the
accident, but missed him. lust then tue
car struck him and he was thrown di.
rectly under it. Mr.. Brown did not see
Mr.. Monday until he was in the act OF
Jumping. The car had no current and
was running about two miles an hour.
Mr.. Brown is one of the Oldest en-
ployes on the Asheville street railway,
and officers of the company say they
have never had complaint regarding
him.
~ A. 4, q E,uu,nxa. Tall rv.
Ed. Sudderth, conductor on the Sui
phur Springs line, said: II was on my
rear platform looking backward. As /
turned my head to the front | saw Lon
Monday in the door and at the same in
stant he stepped toward me and got on
the car step. He struck at me with a
cigarette box and swung off the car be.
tween the tracks and heard the Ashe-
vile motorman shout at him. He kept
on hollering and began to wind his
brake. BY this time Lon was in the cen
ter of the Asheville tracks and threw I'D
his hands as the car struck him. Il
stopped my car and ran for help to get
the boy out. His head was crushed and
his body was doubled up 50 we couldn't
get him out till the car was lacked up.
Emory Snider, the motorman of Sud
derth's car, said Monday got on the car
in front of his fathers store and as he
passed he touched the motorman in the
side, but said nothing, going right on
through the car. "The Asheville car was
passing me when Monday stepped off the
rear end. heard the Ashevilie motor
man shout, Look out"
The second
This is the second fatality since the
establishment of the Ashevi street rail-
way. On the night of September q,
! $3.50, a car ran over and killed Mitchell
x. Morgan, on Southside avenue.
Two Killed in Accidents.
Thos. Monday, brother of Alonzo,
was run over and killed on January 26,
1891. by shifting engine in the yards
ot the Western North Carolina railroad
here.
The Inquest
Coroner McBrayer was notified and
the inquest over the body began about