The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-19
A LITTLE GIRL KILLED
Falls to Death From Her North
Seattle Home.
WAS LOOKING FOR HER PAPA.
Two-Y ear-Old Alice Garrod the Victim
A Plunge of sixteen Feet to
Fence-An Only Child.

When Quartermaster A. H. Garrod
steps from the steamship City of Topeka
today he will receive the sad news that
his only child Alice, aged years, was
killed yesterday afternoon at O'Clock by
falling headlong over the railing at her
home. Ia Stewart street.
Notwithstanding the terrible injuries the
little one sustained, she fingered before
the eyes of her agonized mother for fully
a half hour before the angel of death
came TO her relief.
The City of Topeka was expected from
Alaska yesterday afternoon, and with
her would have come QuartermaSter Gar
rod. who lives with his wife ard child on
Stewart street, between Front and Sec
ond. IL will be recallea by those who
have lived in the city for anv length of
time, that the grade from Front street
to Second is very steep. and il was some
thing of an undertaking To make the cut.
The house in which Mr.. Garrod lives faces
Stewart street and across the end is a
veranda with an ordinary railing about
three feet high running around the edge.
The west end of this veranda, with its
railing. looks down upon the alley that
runs through TO Virginia street, and by
some peculiar ombination of circum-
stances a low fence runs along the alley
about three feet from the side of the
house. When Stewart street is reached
the fence turns at right angles and ends
at what would be the southwest corner
of the veranda. From the top of the rail-
ing to the ground it is between fourteen
and sixteen feet.
The day passed on, but the City of To-
peka did not arrive. Mrs. Garrod had
dinner between / and o'clock. and when
the meal was finished little Alice, blue
eyed light-haired little darling. went out
on the yeranda TO watch for her papas
ha oil iD+n
at first. but soon got down and FASTENED
TO the end of the veranda attracted there
by the tinkling of n bell in the hands of
a small boy in the alley below. The little
one climbed up on the railing and was
watching with eager interest what was
going on and stood there unconscious of
any danger.
Mrs. p. j. Gessner who lives in the
house just above that occupied by the
Garrods, caught sight of the child she
climged up, but having seen her about
the veranda many times thought she
would get down all right. The thought
had no sooner passed through her mind
than the situation changed The child
lost her balance, toppled, made an effort
with her little hands TO grasp the railing,
failed and pitched headlong to the ground
below. There was not a cry, only a loud
sound as the poor little body struck the
fence below and then pitched to the edge
VI the SlQSN ain, NiiCFt Is lay On It's DdEh,
silent but still quiyering.
Mrs. Gessner ran as fast as she could
10 the spot, expecting to find a small,
dead body. Strange IS it may seem. little
Alice. as she lay stretched out on the
edge of the sidewalk, fat on her back
suddenly raised her hands and pushed
down her clothes from her head.
Mrs. Gessner caught the child in her
arms and hurried up the hill to the steps.
She was so excited and nervous that her
strength failed her. She almost fell, but
kept her feet. and passed the child to the
agoniZed mother. who had been called
from the house by a child who saw the
accident. The poor mothers grief as she
took her only child into the house and
pressed ii TO her bosom was heart-rend-
ing.
The child suddenly gave a piteous moan,
Strengthened herself, but gave no further
signs of regaining consciousness.
As soon as possible DR.. R NJ. Eames
was called. and then DR.. II. NJ. Hall was
summoned. They did what they could
to save the life. but IL was useless task.
The shock at the base of the brain where
ii connects with the spinal column had
been too great, and at the end of thirty
minutes death ensued
\ telegram was sent Immediately TO
Mrs. Garrod's mother, at Chico. but she
cannot arrive until some time today.