The record-union., 1894-12-03
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO HUNTERS.
Horses, Wagon and Men Dumped
Into the Y-Street Ditch.
The Horses Killed and All Members of
the Party Injured-A Dam
gerous Place.

A serious and nearly fatal accident oc-
Cured to party Of hunters at Twenty
eighth and streets about o'clock yes
terday morning.
shortly before that time Henry THE
land, Henry Hill, Louis Steinmiller and
Emil Sehilling ieit in a four-seated wagon
drawn by two horses for Miller's ranch,
on the lower Stockton road, on a hunting
expedition. Tney drove along Twenty
eighth street to the Y-street levee and
canal, intending TO take the road which
leaves street, between Twenty-eighth
and Twenty-ninth.
On account Of the fog and the darkness
Il was impossible to see many feet ahead.
When the canal which runs along the
side of the levee was reached Hill, who
was driving. concluded to cross the
bridge on the right of Twenty eighth
street, but was told by one of the others
OF the party that he was taking the wrong
road. He then swerved the horses to the
left, with the purpose of going up the
levee TO the other bridge. near Twenty
ninth street.
There was not room enough on top Of
the Ieyee TO make the turn, and as the
horses swung about the one on the right
side stepped off the grade and commenced
TO slip down the deep and narrow canal.
Even then the members of the party
did not realize the dangerous position
they were in, and one of them told Hill
TO pull up the horses. Hill did so, but
the grade was so steep that nothing could
stop the horses from slipping. Then,
with sudden lurch, the horses, wagon
and occupants were preclpltated into the
canal, which is about twenty feet deep
from the top OF the levee.
That all four of the men were not
Killed outright was next to miracle.
The wagon went over on its side, with
the horses and men partly under it. One
OF the horses, which belonged to Kent
Bros, had its neck broken and died in
stantly. The other horse, which belonged
TO Thieland (who also owned the wagon,
had one OF its rear legs broken and was
atterward shot to end its misery.
Schilling was the least injured of the
party, and as soon as he crawled out OF
the wreck he went TO a saloon nearby,
and with the assistance OF the saloon
keeper and number of other persons
succeeded in getting Thieland, Hill and
Steinmiller out of the canal, in which
there was few inches of water.
Hill was taken to his home on Twenty
third street, between l and j, where it
was ascertained that he had not received
serious injuries. He was severely shaken
up and somewhat bruised about the body
days. Hill is in the employ Of Phillip
Wolf, the contractor.
Thieland and Steinmiller, as soon as
they were extricated from the wreck,
were taken TO the Railroad Hospital.
There ii was found that they were seri-
ously injured. Thieland sustained a COM
pound fracture of the hip bone and a
number Of other wounds. HIS injuries
Will necessarily confine him to his bed
for long time.
Steinmiller received injuries to his
head, face and body. There is deep cut
under his chin, one of his ears is badly
lacerated and the thumb of one of his
hands was nearly pulled out of its socket
lie also received mum Der OF contusions
about the body.
None of the men are thought to be
fatally injured. Sleinmiller lives at
24l7 street, Ihieland at Twentieth and
+ streets and SchilIing on j street, be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth.
they are all employed at the railroad
shops.
Where the accident occurred there is
no fence nor anything else to keep pedes-
trian or a team from being thrown into the
canal. The injured men talk of suing
the city for damages.