The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-17
CRUSHED By SWIFT WHEELS
ELECTRIC CAR KILLS A LITTLE BOY
YEAR COLUMBIA.


Freddie Darlington. an u-year-oIi boy.
was run over yesterday morning and killed
By a fat car on the Seattle aud Rainier
Beach electric lire, about a mile north
OF Columbia. The car was one OF two
trailers behind freight car. which was
running to Columbia The boy attempted
70 board the hind trailer while /, was
moving and was thrown beneath the wheels
and .rightfuIIy crushed Tie BODY was
brought 10 the morgue In Seattle Motor
man IL c Cameron Is under arrest An
inquest VIII be held this morning at 10
o'clock ard responsibility for the acci
dent will be sifted 10 the bottom.
The story OF the accident as told by Mo-
tornan Cameron s as follows:
Il vas on car No. T. a frelghter. yes
terday morning, with Conductor H. J.
Hanna. We started back from the brick
yard to Columbia about $50 a. m. Behind
us were two trailers. Just opposite the
cricket grounds ] had slowed up 10 take
curve. After rounding 1t I turned tae
juice into the car again 10 bring her ont
OF the curve when l noticed two boys
jumping for the rear trailer. One, I af-
forwards learned. was Freddie Darlington
and the other Leo Flynn.
When / saw the boys jumping I threw
the juice OF and set on the brakes. The
car came quickly TO a stop but / noted
that the rear car was humping I'D ana
down rs though of sne track.
Il ran back and there lay the younger
boy beside the rails. | could see his legs
were broken and he was unconscious
Hanna had run back with NE, and as the
terrible truth dawned upon ME / said 10
him: My God the boy IL Killed
We sent I@o Flynn to a house near
by and the lady came and helped us put
the body on the freight car. We went to
Columbia and tried TO get Doctor but
none was there. Mrs. Darlington. the
boys mother, had been notified meantime
and when Il returned from my search for
the doctor found her in the car moa nIng
over her child. II was something dreadful
I'VE came directly 10 Seattle from 60
luusb!a. reaching here al l0:lo and pr.
Shannon was sent for By the line ~
arrived the boy. eho had been alive but
unconscious. vas dead.
II az. not see the accident and do not
know OF any one else who Witnessed il.
save Leo Flynn. Both boys We're in The
habit Of jumping the cars and stealing
rides. They were particularly favorable TO
the freigh. with trailers because they
could get on the rear car and we could
not disiodge them without stopping"
Conductor Hanna said that he hal seen
the boys hiding behind a clump of ferns
They We're waiting there" he said. "un-
III The hind fiat car should pass. They
knew they would not be allowed 10 board
the train and that IL why they hid Con
ductor Hanna has been OF the road ahou:
four months and MotoTman Cameron has
been an eInploye Of he company for year.
Both are trusted men.
Coroner Yandell notified parties concern
ed that an inquest would b. held a But
terworth & Sons m0rgue at o'clock yes
terlay afternoon, but as ali the witnesses
required were not present az that time. Il
was adjourned until 10 o'clock this morn
ing The coroner il determined to have
thorough investigation He has heard sew
.raI complaints from Columbia people that
the cars were careiessly handled The boy
trick OF jumping the swift moving cars
has become SO general among the sturdy
children Of Columbia that City Attorney
w s Mc(urley. OK that place. was ra-
Gently requested 10 draw up an ordinance
making Il a penal offense for boys To
mount a moving car within the limits OF
Columbia. II IS believed the sccifen. of
Yesterday morning will have u restraining
effect on the daring youths of the suburbs
fender wilt probably figure prominently *
t0day's inquest.
Freddie Darlington was the Ir-yeSr-old
son OF Mr and Mrs G. IL Darlington. ~
Columbia The father recently resigned
posittor with the Globe Wall Paper Com
many and went 20 AIaska- The body Of the
Young victim is new at the morgue. Three
boating ribs on he right side ara fraC-
;ured. extending TO the liver and intest mes
Both bones OF The Jeff leg below The knee
are fractured a. Is The spin@.