The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-13
DIED AT THE HOSPITAL
MICHAEL M'GANN WHO VAS IN
JURED BY IN ELECTRIC CAR.

Fatal Ending of an Evenings spree--One
a"Last Carr Crowd-No Blame Attaches
to the Conductor--MoGann's Friends
Said to be to Blame for the Accident.
Michael McGann, the young man who
was severely injured by an electric car
on Kimberly avenue at about 12:45 yes
terday morning, died at the hospital at
2:10 o'clock shortly after being taken
to the hospital The car by which Nc
Gam was injured was No. 4S and was
the last car UP from the Rock. At
tached to the car was a trailer, both
cars being heavily loaded. Just after
leaving the office in West Haven the
conductor, S. A. Williams, started to
collect fares and finally found a man
named Harry who had no money. The
conductor ordered him to leave the
car. but a crowd of about a dozen of
Harty's friends were aboard and when
the conductor ordered HARRY off, these
men attacked the conductor, but Will
liams succeeded in getting away from
them and boarded the car, at the same
time starting it. The crowd of toughs
ran after the car and got aboard again,
McGann being one of the gang. At
Washington avenue the fight was re-
newed and again the plucky conductor
broke away from them, boarded the
car and started on, while at the same
time the gang also succeeded in getting
on the car again. AS the car turned
into Kimberly avenue third fight oc-
Cured with the same result as the
other two, all of the fighting crowd get
ting safely aboard except Mccain,
who was on the running board of the
forward car. While the car was on the
Kimberly avenue bridge over West
river Mccain slipped and fell upon his
knees. His friends grabbed him and
attempted to hold him on, but he Slip
ped from their grasp and slid under
the wheels. The crowd of toughs had
been ringing the gong, so that when
the conductor rang to stop the car the
motorman did not obey the signal,
thinking it was a false signal again,
and SO the car proceeded on about fifty
feet beyond the bridge before it was
stopped.
McGann was then found with his
right leg cut nearly off and his left leg
badly fractured, and the left foot
crushed.
The police ambulance was telephoned
for from the West Haven office Of the
Winchester avenue railroad and it was
nearly three-quarters Of an hour before
the ambulance could be secured to re-
move the injured man to the hospital.
When the ambulance did arrive there
was no physician with 1t and only two
officers In the meantime Mccain had
bled considerably and the only thing
which had been done for him was to
wash away the blood with a pail of
water. When he reached the hospital
he was very weak and it was seen that
he could not live long. Young McGann
was son of Dennis McGann of 27O
Davenport avenue and the body was
removed there after death occurred.
1t is said by those who were on the
car that not the least blame for the
accident attaches to the conductor, but
that 1t was rather McGann's own fault.
Some who saw the accident say that
the party of drunken friends with Nc
Gam were to blame, as they say that
after the third fight when the car start
ed up McGann did not get aboard, but
his friends grabbed him and dragged
him along.