The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-13
A CHILD KILLED.
Crushed Under the Wheels of an
Electric Car.
Story Of the Accident as Related by
Motorman Manufacturing OF
the County Commissioners-Mr.
Evans Report.

A frightful accident occurred yester-
day. by which the little son of john
Greiner lost his life, being horribly
mangled by a street car. The affair
happened about 2:15 in the afternoon,
the car doing the mischief being the
repair car, in charge of Motorman
Walter Marlin and Lineman T. c. Nails
bitt. The repair car was engaged on
Twenty-fifth street and had to run
down to the depot to let the regular
car down. The regular car was in
charge of Motorman Moody
MARTINS STORY.
Martins account of the affair given
to Superintendent Flygare is that he
brought his car almost to a stop just
before reaching Lincoln avenue. He
did this because some horses that had
been at work moving a house along
Lincoln avenue were about to be driv-
en- south across the track. There were
several of them in charge of one or
two men. He saw that the men de-
cided not to cross the track ahead of
the car. The motorman then turned
on the current again, but did not go
at any time more than five miles an
hour: There were two poles in the
south side of the street, which he
nave HlQQeu Tie DCy, dS
he did not see the lad until he was
but u feet from the car. 1t was all
over in an instant Marlin reversed
the current and turned the brake, but
the car passed over the little fellow,
mangling him terribly and nearly
severing his head from his body. Mar
lin brought the car to stop few
feet from the body and ran to the
office of the company He was COM
r1ln tealx I'M
care, it seems, had gone around on the
Twenty-second street car and up
Twenty-fifth to see about the prospect
of the moving building impeding traf-
fic for time.
When the Twenty-second street car
with the superintendent, reached Twen-
ty-fifth street and Lincoln avenue, the
body was being put in a hack by Of
ficer Sullivan. 1t was taken to Richey's
undertaking parlors and prepared for
burial. The body is badly mangled, the
head being almost severed from the
body The little fellows name was
John Greiner. He was little past
years of age. Another boy who was
playing with him came near being run
over by the same car at the same time.
Charles Seaton saw the accident and
says the car was running at a high
rate of. speed and that the two cars
were close together. The rnotorman
did not ring the bell but stopped the
car as soon as he could. SeatOn did
not see where the boy came from, and
saw him first about the time the car
struck him.
II. Wadlan saw the accident and his
story is much the same as Seaton's ex-
cept that he did not see the boy until
after the car had passed over him.
w. A Quick, a Rio Grarde employee,
said the cars were going so fast that
it attracted his attention. He is a
friend of the Greiner family and got
the names of the witnesses. F. Boy,
a. Johnson and L. NJ. Nicholson also
witnessed the accident.
Moody, the motorman on the rear
car, said the cars were going at
pretty rate of speed. He, together with
other motormen, say the boy was in
the habit OF playing on the track and
would often dart across the track just
ahead of them. Quick and others say
they think this fmotorman's attention
was attracted to house that was be-
ing moved.
1t will be seen that the stories con-
f1ct and an inquest viii probabl be
held today, although no definite ar
engagements had been made for it last
night.
The boys father is John .reiner, who
keeps a restaurant and lives near the
corner of Twenty-fifth street and Wall