The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-04
KILLED IN THE OLD
ROLLING MILL YARD
Life Crushed Out Of William Carpenter
by q Locomotive.
MARRIED AND HAD A LARGE FAMILY
Lived ON Prospect Avenue..TwO
Boys. Chayles Nimblcy and Thomas
Harris, of DunmOre Borough, Ate
Rat Poison Thrown Out by JanitOr
of Oral SchOOl..One Is Dead and
the Other Dying.

William Carpenter of 21S Prospect
avenue, a man 45 years old, married
and having seven children, employed
as carpenter by the Lackawanna Iron
& Steel company, met terrible death
at o'clock yesterday afternoon in the
old rolling mill yard above the blast
furnace.
He was run over by one of the small
locomotives and his left arm and both
legs We're cut off. He was dead when
help reached the spot. The deceased
was at work putting a floor in a scale
on which ears of pig iron are weighed.
The place is close to the abutments of
the Roaring Brook bridge.
Every time the ears passed he had
to step to one side. and when the en-
gine came this time he moved away
from the track a few feet. The en-
gine passed him and stopped few feet
below where he was standing. He saw
1t reversed and move back toward him,
and he was about to step Il few feet
farther away from the track when he
stumbled and fell across the rails.
The engine was going at a slow rate
of speed. but before the engineer real
lied what had happened the wheels
passed over Carpenter. Coroner Long
street gave permission to remove the
body and Undertaken G. A. Miller TOOK
1t to his establishment on Cedar ave-
nue.. The dead mans watch was still
going when Mr.. Miller removed 1t from
the vest pocket at o'clock in the eve
Ming At O'Clock the body was taken
to the late home, to the sorrowing fam
lily.
The deceased was twice married. He
had two children by his first wife. They
are grown up. The five by the second
wife are young. the Oldest not being
over IA years. The funeral will be held
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. Cor
oner Longstreet will empanel a jury
this morning.
TWO BOYS POISONED.
While playing in the fields near the
Pennsylvania Oral school Saturday af
ternoon two boys, Charles Nimbley and
Thomas Harris, each years old, came
across tin can among some rubbish
which had been thrown out by the jani-
tor of the school, and in the can was a
quantity of paste made of molasses and
flour, in which arsenic had been mixed
to Kill rats with.
Finding the substance sweet they ate
the stuff. and an hour or so afterward,
when they went home, became violently
i'll. The condition of young Nimbley
from . O'Clock Saturday night until he
died at 3 o'clock Sunday morning, was
one of great agony. At late hour last
night the Harris boy was so weak that
his death is looked for. and it is the
opinion of doctors attending him that
he cannot recover.
Nimbey Is son of John 7. Nlmbley
a miner living at 1913 jefferson avenue
Dunmore, and Harris is a son of A. J.
Harris. molder living at 14O Monroe
avenue. Dunmore. Coroner Longstreet
was attending a private call in that
nefghborhood yesterday morning, when
he heard Of the strange death of the
boy. In connection with the case. it
has been published that Dr. Winters, of
Dunmore, gave death certificate to
the effect that the cause Of death was
gastritis. This does him an injustice.
He says that he was not at the house
until three hours after death had oc-
cured and did not give any certificate.
He and DR.. Brown, of Dunmorc, were
called to the Harris case. and they have
done all in their power to save his life,
but the effort appears to end in failure.
JURY EMPANELED.
Coroner Longstrcet empaneled the
following jury: DR.. f. NJ. Pennypack-