The evening world., 1894-02-01
ARRESTED BY DEATH.
One Of Two Runaway Boys Killed
by a Train.
Came from Worcester to Make a
Fortune in New York.
Disappointed aud Half Starved, They
Were Tramping Home.

Two boys. fourteen years old, started
out on Sunday morning from Worcester,
Mass, to seek their fortune in the great
metropolis. one OF them is now dead
and the other nearly cried himself sick
y 'sterday,
They were Willie Stewart and Oswald
Ayrton. They worked in the IIolyoke
machine shop as gate boys, and got
S.2i a week. ON Saturday night when
they were paid the foreman told them
there was no more work. They did not
give their wages to their parents, but
early Sunday morning they started out
to tramp their way 20 New York.
They walked to Putnam, and then
were SO cold and tired they decided tn
ride part of the way. They managed to
yet to New London by paying a small
sum to a brakeman, and then paid 81
for their passage from New London to
New York in the steamer City of
Worcester.
1t was , o'clock Tuesday morning
when they reached this city. They
walked about the streets all that morn
ing, and that night they slept on a pier
near the one on which they were LANDED
They were pennlless. hungry, worn out
ana llltW no one III lnt great CITY. oi
Wednesday they tramped about the city
again. They asked for work, but could
get none. They had never begged, and
were ashamed to ask for food.
Last night. in desperation, they deter
mined to go home. They knew that one
of the great railroads that ends in the
Grand Central Depot runs towards Wor-
%cester, and they decided to follow its
tracks. They asked some questions
and We're told to go TO the Harlem
Bridge and then go out on the track and
follow the road that runs to the east.
They did so.
At 10 o'clock at night the two little
fellows We're In Morrisania, footsore
car and slept an hour or two.
At I o'clock this morning they were
tramping through Bedford Park. There
are four track there.
Near the spot where the New York
New Haven and Hartford branches of
train approaching. They stepped out o!
its track. little Ayrton walking INTO the
gutter at the side of the roadbed.. Stew.
the, roar of the approaching northbount
train was so great that he did no,
hear a s|outhbound train that was rush.
ing towards him.
Ayrton saw it and shouted. but the
noise was SO great that ms voice could
not be heard BY the other boy.
In an instant the train had struck little
Stewart. His companion, horror-stricken
fell on his face in the muddy gutter
When he had nerve enough to look VI
the train had passed. He could not see
his boy friend, He walked out on the
track and looked no and down.
Thirty or forty feet away he found q
mangled body. 1t was that of little
Stewart.
The engine had thrown the boy off &c
one side and onto the rails of the fal
western track.
Ayrton dragged the corpse into thu
gutter, and ran to the Bedford Park sta,
ton. The body was gathered together
and at noon messages We're sent TO Wor
~cester, telling the folks there OF The
tragedy.
BY IA strange coincidence, the news o
the accident reached Police E~ieadquar
ters at the same time that Il message
was received from Worcester, asking
Supt. Byrnes to look out for and arresr
the runaway boys.
Little Stewards father Is a shoemakeI
at 10 Dix street. Worcester. AYrton',
father is a driver, and lives at 40 Cen
trail street In that city.
Ayrton was to-day committed to tn,
care of the Gerry Society, and the bod,
Of little stewart will be held until tn
father Of the boy reaches here.