The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-21
FOUR FELL UNDER A CAR
REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF AUGUST
KLANN's FAMILY IN AN ACCIDENT.
A Sl<ittish Horse Upset Mrs. KIann,
Two Children and 81 Nephew in
Front of "a Street Car.

August Klann, his wife and two children.
and Robert Dietrich, nephew, had a mar
row escape from serious and perhaps fatal
injury in an accident on South Meridian
street early last evening. The spectators
who rushed to the aid of the injured people
saw a sight that made them shudder. I'm
der a South Meridian-street car was the
little boy, unconscious, and the little girl,
while Mrs. KIann and Dietrich were
damned to the ground by the fender. 1t
seemed at first that one or more of them
had met death.
Klann is employed at Kingans packing
house and resides at POP Minnesota street.
Yesterday afternoon his wife and children
put on their Sunday fnery and the family
proceeded to the home Of the nephew, Mr.
Dietrich, on Arizona street. After spending
the afternoon there the Klanns made ready
to return to their home. Dietrich offered
to take them there in his covered spring
wagon, and for this purpose hitched up a
young horse he owns. The animal is slxt-
fish and when it reached Meridian street,
after turning south from Arizona, it be-
came scared. Mr.. Klann was driving and
he tried to turn the vehicle aside from the
street-car tracks. One wheel of the wagon
caught in one of the car tracks and just
then the horse dashed forward, overturning
the vehicle and throwing all the occupants
to the ground.
South-bound car No. 500 on the South Me-
ridian-street line was only few feet be-
hind the wagon, the motorman slightly
checking the speed of the car, anticipating
the wagon to turn out from the track. The
mOtOrmanS calculations were all right, had
the wagon cleared the track When the
wagon toppled over he quickly threw off
the electric current as the two children,
Mrs. Klann and Dietrich were thrown di-
rectly in front of the car. The fender of
the car, it seems, passed over the body of
the little boy, and he rolled back under
the trucks of the car, but it does not APP
pear just how he was carried beneath it.
Mrs. Klann and Dietrich were damned I'M
der the fender. When the stopped the
motorman and conductor rushed to the aid
of the people under the car. The woman
was covered with dust and blood, and the
others were in q like condition, their ap-
pearance indicating far more serious
state OF affairs than really existed. August,
the boy, aged three years, was unconscious
when pulled out from under the car by DIR.
l.. A. E. Storch, who had been summoned
from his Office near by. There were nu-
merous cuts in the lads head, and he was
suffering much from the shock Amelia,
the little girl, aged six years, had deep
outs in her face and forehead, and the docr
tor fears she may be suffering from inter4
nal injuries. Dietrich, who is about twen4
ty-one years old, was bruised and cut, but
he was able to move about after the acct
dent.
Mr. Klann had held on to the lines with
which he was driving the horse and was
dragged to the curb stone, against which
he was dashed, sustaining severe bruises.
The horse was caught by bystanders.
People who saw the accident say the mo-
torman was not to blame. DIR. Storch does
not think any of those who were hurt are
that the little girl is severely injured in
ternally.