The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-19
INSTANTLY KILLED.
Little Yense Bruins Run Over by q
Jigger on Monument Street.
HAD JUST LEFT TIE SCHOOL
HOUSE FOR HIS HOME.

Death Came Instantly, the Little Fellows
Neck Being Broken-The Jigger Owned
by the Street Railway Company and
Driven by John Ne1son-The Driver
| Was Not to Blame and the Coroner De-
cides an Inquest Unnecessary.
Little Yense Bruins came out of the
Monument street school house at four
o'clock yesterday afternoon as bright and
| happy boy as the sun ever shone upon.
Ten minutes later he lay dead in the
dust of the street, his neck broken by the
wheel OF heavy jigger. Yense was the
SON of Mr.. and Mrs. Anders Brnns,
who live on Warren street.
| AS Yense and two other little chaps,
Joe Taylor and Shirley Smith, started
away from the school, jigger owned by
the Portland Railway company, and
| driven by John Nelson, passed. After it
ran the three boys, and jumped on. They
rode only until the jlgger was opposite
the head of Waterville street. Chen
Taylor AID Smith jumped off. Whether the
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tween the wheels or whether he lost his
balance and fell will never be known.
To Mr.. William P. Norton, who was
sitting on the piazza Of his house at 81
Monument street. it looked as if the boy
fell. Tho great wheel passed over his
neck and the Jigger runblod on it's way,
Nelson, the driver, little dreaming of the
terrible accident which had just hap
pened.
Mr.. Norton ran out and picked up the
little boy. AS he did SO, he noticed the
boys head fell forward as if the neck was
broken. There was no sign of life in the
body, but Mr.. Norton hurried with it to
the drug store of Mr.. T. j. Stevens on
the corner of Congress and North streets
and a physician was summoned. 1t was
found by the doctor that the boys neck
had been broken and death must have
been instantaneous. Life was ex-
tinguished SO suddenly that the victim
probably did not know that he was in
danger. Blood gushad from his nostrils
and mouth. but there were no cuts or
bruises disoernable as he lay on the floor
of the store.
News of the accident travelled fast, and
g. crowd of children, many of them play
mates of Yense, gathered on the sidewalk
by the store in such numbers that the
services of policeman were necessary to
keep passage open. The dead boys
mother, hearing Of the accident, ran from
her hnn,a IN Wsrrap ctroat To ApJ &bc
body of her child lifeless On the floor
The grief stricken woman could be of no
use there, and returned to her home. A
message was sent to the boys father, who
is carpenter, and was away at his
work.
MIR. Nelson, the driver of the jiggsr,
had proceeded some distance along the
street after the accident before he learned
OF it. His attention was at first attracted
by man on the sidewalk, who called
something which Nelson did not under-
stand. Another person soon overlook the
jigger and then Nelson at once went to
Mr.. Stevens's store. There by this time
were Marshal Triokey, Deputy Sterling
and Coroner Littlefeld.
They heard Mr.. Pope's statement and
listened to what listle Nelson could say,
which was that he did not know the bows
were on the jigger, and consequently had
no knowledge Of the accident. The driver
evidently felt badly over the occurrence.
but was clearly in no way to blame.
Coroner Littlefield decided that no in
quest was necessary and the body was re-
moved By Undertaken Rich to the house
of the boys father. The dead boy was
six years old and was member of Miss
Staples's class at the Monument street
school. There are two younger children
in the family.
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