The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-01

gomery avenue and Kearny street, Just a
block away from where the little Feakes
girl met similar fate few weeks ago.
Car lila was going eastward at its usual
speed. Luigi Giorno, 6 years of age, was
the victim. He could not measure the
speed of the car. With younger brother
and sister he was on his way to the Sill
yer Star kindergarten, on Sansome street,
near Broadway. The wheels of the for
ward truck passed over him entirely,
crushing out the tender spark of life al
most instantly,
Those on the sidewalk heard half
stifed cry from beneath the juggernaut
and then all was over. The car was
stopped before the rear wheels reached
the mangled little body.
1t was a shocking thing to happen on
the public street. There were many pedes-
TRANS on the street at that time Just be-
fore 8 o'clock in the morning. A couple of
women in the crowd tainted. Men who
saw it held their breath and turned white
for moment Then they rushed for
ward and helped to extricate the child
from the running-gear of the car. There
need have been no hurry about the mat
ter however, for the cry that came from
the baby lips when the wheel struck was
the death cry.
1t happened in front Of the County
Jail. Chief Jailer Sattler rushed out and
tried to help the others extricate the
body. But this could not be readily done
for 1t was pinned down by the side bars.
The great green juggernaut itself must be
lifted to one side before its baby victim
could be extricated. Half a hundred men
gave their strength to the task, and the
car was raised high enough to permit the
removal OF the little mass OF flesh and
bones-now scarcely recognizable.
DR.. Barrett, the MorgUe physician, said
that death was caused by a shock from
wounds. Then with surgical particularly
he described the wounds-a huge laceTatiOn
exposing the abdom nal cavity from sprite
TO umbiIicus, etc. Both arms were broken
The face was mutllated, the -; but why
multiply the horrors. Little Luigi died
an awful DEATH
And the thing TO dwell upon at this time
is the absence of a fender on the car that
killed him. The same car, or another of
the same line, may kill another child to-
day. For none of the cars have tenders,
though the Supervisors recently passed a
law making it compulsory on the part of
the MaTket-street Railway Company to tit
every one of its cars and dummies with a
fender.
If the Market-street Company had obeyed
this law Yesterdays tragedy on Broadway
could not have occurred, and there would
be no danger of a similar occurrence this
morning and tomorrow morning.
Eye-witnesses say the front of the car
struck Luigi and knocked hum down, and
then crashed over him before James Sam
pie, the motorman, could stop 1t.
Had there been fender in front of the
car it must have caught the boy and have
saved him from the wheels. A few bruises
would have been the worst of the acct
dent.
But there was TO fender. The bystand-
ers picked up the little mangled body, put
it in a blanket secured at The jail and car
ried it down to the Morgue.
The green iuggernaut went on down
kearny street, and as soon as the motor
man could be relieved from his post he
went out to the new City Hall and gave
himself up. The policemen took him up
stairs before Police Judge Conlan, who or
dered a charge OF manslaughter placed
against Sample, and then turned him loose
o. his own recogniZance.
Luigi was the son of Frank Giorno, a la
borer who lives with his family at %
Hinckley place. They are natives OF Italy
the mother and father-and but recently
came TO this State from Texas. The
mother was nearly frantic yesterday when,
they told her of the accident. -
Bvstanders say the car was going at ton
speed past the jail when the children tried
to cross. Sample says it was not going fast
and points to the fact that it was so
quickly stopped to prove his contention.
But not even Mr.. Vining will deny that
the car was without a fender, and that tie
time set by law for the fitting of all cars
with tenders has expired.
The claim heretofore put forward by
Superintendent Vining and other officials
of the Market-street Railway Company
that suitable and practicable fender.
was impossible, or even difficult, to secure,
is not borne out by the facts. The truth
is there are several practicable tenders to
be had--for the price of their construction
plus the patentee's royalty.
Any one who doubts this should take
day off and go to Oakland and Alameda.
All the electricians there have lenders,
and they are practicable, life-saving fend-
ers, as the residents of both Oakland and
Alameda have reason to know. The APP
plianoe in question is known as the Ala
media fender. If it works well on the east
side of the bay there is reason to believe
that 1t might do good service on the west
side.
1t is the invention of ]. r. Clark, an