Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-13
DBPLORABLE MISHAR.
CLARENCE HILL KILLED BY A FIRE ENGINE,
LAST NIGHT,
Al the Corner Of Seventeenth and Market Srssts-A
Wheel of the Niagara Engine Passed Over
His Head and Dsah Was Almost In
s!antansous-Othsr Accidents Of
Yesterday.

A sad and deplorabie accident oc-
CURED at the corner Of enteenth and
Market streets, at eight O'Clock last
evening, resulting in the instant death
Of Clarence Hill, aged seven years,
son Of Isaac Hill. iaborer, Of No.
Twentieth street.
The lad was attempting to cross
Seventeenth street, when he was struck
BY one OF the horses drawing the Mag
ara engine, knocked down, and one OF
the engine wheels passed over the lads
head, death resulting almost imnedi-
ately.
An alarm of fire had been sounded
from box SO, on McCulloch street, at
three minutes OF eight, TO which por-
tion of the department, the Niagara
engine company among others, re-
sponded. There were many people on
the streets at that hour in the evening,
and the alarm created some excitement
in the central portion OF the city, par
ticularly on Market street In the
vicinity Of the creek. Many persons
ran along the sidewalks TO and up the
cross streets leading 10 East Wheeling,
among them being a considerable num-
Der Of children, and among the latter
was little Clarence Hill, who had just
left his home and was following the fire
apparatus. The boy ran up Market
street, on the east side. from the Mar
ket street bridge 10 Seventeenth street,
lodging in and out among
pedestrians, who were numerous Just
ia front Of the German Lu-
theran church. AS the boy passed
in front OF the Church the Niagara en-
CINE came along, at only moderate rate
of speed. The driver, William White,
made the turn from Market into Seven
teenth street just as the boy attempted TO
cross Seventeenth street from the south
to the north side OF the street When
probably eight or ten feet from the
curb, one OF the engine horses struck
the little fellow and he was knocked
down, and in an instant one OF the
wheels of the heavy engine ran over his
head on the left side, crushing the skull
at the base of the brain and causing
death at once, although a few heart
pulsations were noted afterwards by
DR.. Eugene Warren, who was but few
yards away, spectator Of the acct
dent, aud who was at the side OF the
victim In a moment.
DR.. Warren and John Auber picked
the boy up and carried him to John
Klaris drug store, at Sixteenth and
Market, and laid him on the floor be-
hind the prescription case, but nothing
could be done, as life was extinct. Drs
Reed and Taylor arrived in a few min
utes, and almost simultaneously Mr..
Hill, who had been sent for, came in.
An immense crowd assembled in the
vicinity in a very short time. Mrs. Hill,
the mother of the boy, came 10 the
drug store about fifteen minutes after
the accident, aud her demonstrations Of
grief were pitious in the extreme.
About half-past eight the body was re-
moved to the home of the parents, in
the patrol wagon, by Lieut.. Gaus and
Officers Carney and Lukens. Coroner
Schultze was notified OF tSe accident,
aud set the inquest for ten o'clock this
morning.
REGISTER reporters talked to a num-
Der OF persons who witnessed the acct
dent, among them DR.. Warren, Council
man c. w. Krieter, and Geo. Brown,
who lives in the rear Of the German
Lutheran Church and but few yards
from the scene of the accident, and also
Driver White, Of the Niagara, and they
Substantially agree that the accident
was unavoidable. Driver White, who
was greatly affected by the deporabe
affair, said he saw the boy as he left the
curb to run across the street, and at
TEN pied to check his horses, but al
though he was not going very fast, he
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