Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-22
HIT BY A CAR.
Killed ON T0b0g-
gan Chute
At CRESCENT PARK
Had Gone 10 the Top Of
the Slide.
CAR SENT UP FOR TRIAL.
Fell to the Ground and Lived About
an Hour.
CAR SENT UP FOR TRIAL.
Fell to the Ground and Lived About
an Hour.

At Crescent Park yesterday william
Greenwood, employed as engineer of the
Russian toboggan, lost his life, In conse-
quence OF assuming a risk that placed him
In front OF swiftly moving car on the
highest level OF the toboggap, 40 feet
above the ground.
At about O'Clock he went to the high
est point to oila sheave and to tighten
the cable. He was advised to shut off the
power before be started, but there was a
rush OF patronage and he would not cause
his employer a loss OF time and business.
Greenwood had become SO accustomed to
theIstructure thatIhe did notregardthe risk
as being so great as others deemed It, end
he said he knew what he was about and
would look for himself. The cars were
all stopped until he had adjusted the ca
cable. There 10 a platform under the TOP.
most curve for the purpose of getting at
the cable. He stood on that platform un-
der the railway and signalled to have a
car sent up to see how the cable was
working.
The car was started and had hardly gone
twenty feet when the proprietor and his
assistant. Thomas Hudson, saw Green
wood climbing up from :he lower plat
form to Cross over the track on the top
level, evidently intending to step out on
another platform on the outer edge Of the
high curve.
There were two young men, Henry
Hooper and John Murphy, in the rear
seat OF the car and two young girls were
in the front seat.
Swiftly the car rushed up the incline,
nd az hn
and was about to take the first sharp curve,
the two girls saw man rise In the path at
the dizzy height. They screamed ard
shrank into the corners Of the seat.
Greenwood saw that he could not get
of the track to the outer platform In time
to escape the car. He faced the car as II
he would Jump into 1t. II he done so he
might have escaped injury, but the occu-
pants OF the car might have been hurt by
his tumbling In upon them. 1t seemed as
though the imperilled man hesitated an
instant, and then the car struck him.
He whirled about and his body was sent
flying over the outer endIof the high curve.
The young women In the car screamed
and one nearly tainted. She was held in
the car by one of the young men in the
rear seat as the car speeded on It's way to
the bottom of the slide. AS Greenwood
went over the edge he faced about and
then tnrned twice In the air as he fell to
the ground, nearly forty feet below. The
man srtuck on his left sioe. 1t was appa-
rent that he was terribly hurt, though he
was still conscious. He was carried at
once to the rear of the dining halls and
DR.. Coke of Riverside was soon at his
side.
He found that four ribs were broken,
and 1t was probable that one Of the broken
ribs had punctured the heart. How the
man remained alive was puzzling to the
doctor, but he rived for an hour, and In
that time expressed appreciation of the
fact that he could not live, and that he
had taken risk that he should not have
taken when he went to the high curve
without turning of steam, as advised.
The men who were In the car said they
might easily have saved him had they
been In the front seat to seize and hold him
After death occurred Medical Examiner
Allison was summoned, and after inquir-
ing into the circumstances he decided
that II was an accident that would not re-
quire an inquest.
Greenwood Is believed to be about 40
years old, unmarried and q resident of
Providence, though he had been boarding
recently at Riverside. He has a sister
somewhere, but none OF his friends In this
vicinity appear to know of his having
other relatives.