Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-22
oLAuD WATT CRUSHED TO DEATH
Fatal Result of nm Accident that Fol-
lowed SmnhnX NiEhi DriNe.

Fatal Result of nm Accident that Fol-
lowed n sunday Night Drive.
steep embankment on the Crescent City
road, just outside the city limits, which has
often been pointed out as an ideal place for
an accident, claimed Claud Watt as its vic
tim Sunday night shortly before midnight.
At 1880 o'clock in the evening young Watt,
who is a son Of ex-Policeman James Wiatt,
and lived at 16 North First street, started
out for a buggy ride with Marion Fuller, of
34S Scott street. Miss Nellie Mackand cor
ner of avenue J and Tenth street, and Miss
Katie Linsel, Fourth avenue and Seventeenth
street. They had team and double seated
buggy from the old Dohany barn on Bryant
street. They drove several miles ont east
of the city, and were on their way home
when the accident occurred.
At the place of the accident the road after
running for some little distance in a straight
line, veers off to the right with a gentle
curve. At the right hand there is a bank
about two feet and a half high, while at the
left, thirty feet away, there is wide gully,
about fifteen feet straight down from the
roadside. Between the bank and the gully
the road is level, so that a team will go as
readily along one part as another. Instead
OF curving with the road the team went
straight ahead and fell down into the gully.
Young Watt got beneath one Of the horses
and was picked up dead. Only one mark was
found upon his head, and 1t could not have
tdustl his uedlu, SO tHHt lneTc seems DUt
little doubt that he was knocked senseless
by the fall and then suffocated by the horse,
which lay directly across his chest and face.
The rest of the party escaped injury ex-
cept a few bruises. AS soon as Fuller fell
down he scrambled to his feet and began
calling loudly for help. Right across the
road was party of campers. and a moving
lantern showed that some one was awake
The man with the lantern did not come to
the rescue in spite of Fuller's shouts and
the girls screams He afterward explained
that he was subject to heart disease, which
prostrated him when he became over excited.
He was consequently afraid to help. The
result was that 1t was several minutes before
Watt could be pulled out from under the.
horse. His life might have been saved If
assistance had been at hand
About twenty feet below where the acci-
dent occurred there Is a sharp turn in the
road and there the county officials have
guarded against accident by putting up a few
sections OF fence. The road is travelled
great deal, but mostly by people who are
very familiar with 1t, which accounts in
measure for the dearth Of tragedies.
Claud Watt was 16 years of age and
student at the Western Iowa Business col
lege. The remains will be taken tomorrow
morning to Silver City for interment
j. A. Watt, the father of the dead boy
put the case into the hands Of Attorneys
Jacob Sims and ID. B. Daily for investigation.
President Wadsworth of the County Board of
Supervisors states that the board has known
of the dangerous place for a long time, and
that 1t is the fault Of the road commits
sioner, one Peterson that it has not been nut
in condition of safety.