The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-20
CRUSHED UNDER THE WHEELS.
FATE OF LITTLE s-YEAR-OLD Ed
DIE BARR.


Front of "A Barnard Street Car.
Dragged for Some Distance and
Badly MangIed by the Wheels.
Death Resulted Two Hours Later.
Coroner Goette Decided That the
Accident Was Unavoidable by the
MOtOrman.
Eddie Barr, the little S-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus H. Barr of No. 157
Gordon street, was run over by a Bar
nard' street car yesterday, receiving
frightful injuries from which he died two
hours later.
The lad was playing in Chatham
square, on which Mr.. Bars home fronts.
The boys were playing a game of ball,
called "rolly-bolly." According to the
rules of the game the boy who rolls the
ball into hole has the right to seize 1t,
and hit the other boys if he can. One of
them had succeeded in rolling the ball
into the hole and was chasing the rest of
the crowd
The Barnard street car was coming
through the square, when the Barr lad
and another ran directly in front OF it,
The other boy, who was little in the lead
barely escaped, the car brushing his cloth
ing. Eddie was knocked down and his
clothing caught by projecting bolt or
rod. He was dragged from near the CEN
ter Of the square to just beyond the edge
of the curbing on Gordon street, distance
of over so feet. He was thrown under the
car while being dragged and both wheels
passed over his body at the hips. Part Of
his clothing was torn off and left in pool
of blood where he fell.
The car was stopped on thes outh side
of Gordon street, and the motorman and
conductor jumped off to render what as
sstance they could. Policeman Crosby
was at the corner of Gordon and Whita-
ker streets, block away. Hearing the
screams of the children, he ran toward
Barnard street in time to see the terminal
ton Of the accident. A crowd gathered.
Eddie's brothers and sisters rushed up
with the rest and saw him lying on the
ground. The little fellow raised his arms
to his sister as he. ran up, as if to beg
her to help him. He was picked up and
carried to his home, about the middle
| of the block
Physicians were quickly summoned and
Drs Weichselbaum, Stone and Owens re-
| sponded. They saw at once that there was
no chance for the injured boy. All that
| they could do was to administer morphine
to relieve his suffering.
The little fellow was terribly mangled,
| his legs being crushed and torn and
| two bad wounds inflicted in the head.
| He was conscious to the last, and kissed
| his brothers and sisters goodby shortly be-
| fore he died
The accident was a severe shock to Mr.
and Mrs. Barr the latter being ILL., Mr.
| Barr was at Kohler's store on Broughton
| street, where he is employed He was
notified of the accident and hurried home.
Policeman Crosby placed the motorman
and conductor under arrest, riding with
| them on the car to the Electric railway
| office, from whence he sent them to the
| barracks j. r. Talton was the motor
man, and J. M. Farr, conductor.
| Talton stated that the boy ran imme-
| diately in front of the car, and 1t was
impossible to have stopped the car before
! striking him. He reversed the motor and
applied the brakes at once. He was ring
| ing his bell at the time, he said.
! Conductor Farr said that the car was
not going at a high rate Of speed as he
| had two passengers to put off at Gordon
street and had signaled the conductor to
stop there.
| coroner Goette was near the scene of
| the accident, and made an immediate IN
vestigation. His conclusion, from state
ments made to him by passengers on the
car and by witnesses of the accident in
| the square, was that it was unavoida BILE
| The witnesses corroborated the statement
of the motorman and conductor that the
| boy ran Immediately in front of the car
| which was not going at an unusual rate
| of speed, and that 1t was impossible for
| the motorman to have prevented the ac-
| cident.
| There being no statements to the con-
! trary, Coroner Goette decided that an in
| quest was unnecessary, and ordered the
| release of the motorman and conductor
| Receivers John R. Young and j. s. Col
| Inns of the Electric railway called at the
| Morning News Office last night for the
| purpose of stating that they had
as usual after all serious accidents
made an immediate investigation. They
| had, they said, received the voluntary
| statements of several witnesses of the ac-
cident to the effect that the motorman
was in no way to blame, and that he
| could not have avoided the accident The
| witnesses further stated that the car was
| not going al an unusual rate of speed and
| that the motorman was ringing his bell
| Both Messrs. Collins and Young stated
! that they greatly regretted the accident
| and hoped that it would serve at least
| to lessen the number of future accidents
! by warning parents of the danger IN,
| CURED by children in playing around the
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