The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-04
KILLED BY A TROLLEY CAR.
LITTLE VICTORIA COURIER DIES
PROM TERRIBLE INJURIES.

Liberty square Adds Another 10 the
victims of TroIIey-WhiIe Play
ing with Other Children, the Little
Girl Ran I'm Front of Car Toe
Near for the Motorman 10 stop
The Accident Due Apparently "a
ThoughtIesSness on the Part of nm
older Child.
The trolley cars are gradually increas-
tng their death list in Savannah. An
other fatal accident occurred yesterday
afternoon.
Little Georgia Victoria Courier. two
years and three months OLD. was run over
BY car 25 OF the Electric railway. at Mont
Eomery and York streets, and injured in a
horrible manner
The child was playing in the square with
a number of other children and ran upon
the track just as the car approached. II
the accident was the fault Of anybody ii
was due 10 the carelessness. so far as
could be learned. Of the older children
who were with the little girl.
Liberty square. in which the accident
occurred. is the playground OF a number
OF small children. and the way I'm which
they dart across the tracks in front of
gers. 1t was in this square that a little
Hebrew child was killed about two years
ago.
George G. Courier, the father Of the lit
tie girl. had just come upon his stoop
when the accident occurred, and saw the
child on the track just before the car
struck her. The car was stopped almost
Immediately without running over the
child. She was struck by the pilot and one
of the bolts on the woodwork ami injured
about the legs and body. Policeman c.
W. Mock, who was nearby, saw the acct
dent and ran I'D in time 10 take the
child from under the car. 1t was sometime
before a physician could be secured. Mr.
Courier went TO the house of DR.. r. G.
Norton, whom he found taking nap. DR.
Norton dressed himself and went to the
scene at once. DR.. l.. +. Welch and DR.
W. w. owens also came later. The ply
Eicians decided that the best thing that
could be done was to take the child to the
hospital, which was done.
The motOrman and conductor were
placed under arrest by Policeman Mock
and taken TO the barracks. They were
detained only a short time. as the father
of the child declined to prefer charges
against them. To a Morning News re-
porter Mr.. Courier said that he did not
see enough Of the accident to judge
whether or not liz could have been pre-
vented, and ne did not desire to prefer
charges against the motorman unless
there was some evidence to show that he
was at fault.
The children who were In the square at
the time of the accident said that the
little girl started to follow an older boy
across the track just as the car came
up.
The names Of the motorman and con-
ductor are II. ID. Durant and w. r. Posey.
Motorman Durant, in his statement to
Superintendent Mcfarland, said that the
car was going south on Montgomery
street. When the car reached President
street he saw some children playing in
the square. The car was then running
about three miles an hour and was about
ter feet from the children when he no
tteed them. A small boy, about years
old, was holding a smaller child by the
hand on the side of the track. When the
car was in about ten feet of the children
the boy let so the hand of the little child,
who ran upon the track in front of the
car. He reversed the motor and stopped
the car within few feet. The child was
struck by the fender and the wheels did
not so over the body. Supt. Mcfarland
said that Durant had been with the COM
pany three years and was considered a
careful man. This Is his first accident
The child died at the hospital last night
at SID o'clock. The abdomen was torn
and the body badly bruised The body was
removed 10 the home of the parents
G. G. Courier the father Of the little
girl IS cabinet maker by trade and lives
at No. 1879 York street, corner of Mont
gOmery street.