The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-09
A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT
Two Small Boys Run Over in the
Montana Union Yards.
ONE CRUSHED TO DEATH
The Other Lad Was Not Dangerously
Injured - Were Playing Around
The Cars. When the Acct
dent Occurred.

Somebody's carelessness in allowing
children to play around railroad tracks
and under cars was responsible for a
frightful accident yesterday afternoon.
in which Clyde and A. ]. Mullen. jr., two
boys, aged 10 and 8 years respectively,
were run over in the Montana Union
railroad yards. The elder boy was so
terribly injured hat he died while be-
ing taken to a hospital. The other was
not dangerously injured.
The father of the boys, A. j. Mullen,
runs the Manila hotel at the corner of
Front street and California avenue,
which is but a few rods from the Mon
tana Union depot, and the rear Of the
south end Of the hotel abuts immediate
~ on the Montana Union tracks. The
boy had been allowed to play around
the tracks. The accident occurred
about 2:3o in the afternoon. Three cars
stood on a side track a short way from
the hotel. without brakes on, and the
boys crawled under the end of the car
standing furthest west. and sat down
on the brake beam, as the younger one
said afterward, to get In the shade. The
yardmen were engaged In switching In
the upper end of the yard and. intending
TO couple on to the three cars to move
them. the switch engine with a num-
Der of other cars attached backed dow
from the east. None of the switching
crew dreamed of any one being under
the cars and came along at a good rate
of speed. The switching train. coming
suddenly in contact with the three cars,
knocked the boys off their seat and they
fell over back, under the cars. No one
knew the boys were underneath till the
three cars passed over them. The
brakeman riding the cars then saw
them and signaled to the engineer to
! stop. The engineer brought the train
to a quick stop and the boys were re-
moved from the track. The coupling
had been missed, and when the accident
was discovered no further attention was
paid to the three cars and they were
allowed TO run on down the yard, where
they were derailed by coming to a
short rail. w. NJ. Mcintyre. an employe
of the Montana Union, CHANGED long
and saw the cars running away and,
mounting the last one, set the brake, but
too late to prevent them from being de-
rallied.
When the boys were picked up II was
found Clyde had been terribly injured
by being dragged along undo the cars.
His skull was crushed in and there were
terrible decorations all over his body and
limbs. The boys were both carried 70
their fathers hotel and Murray d
Freund's ambulance summoned. 1t was
found the younger boy was not seri-
ously enough hurt to make II necessary
to send him to the hospital, but Clyde
was sent in the ambulance, which was
dispatched with all speed, but the Lao
succumbed to his injuries before th'
hospital was reached and was dead
whe taken from the ambulance.
The mother of the boys was at the
race track when the accident occurred
and a messenger was sent for her in 8
hack. The messenger, not wishing Il
excite her. did not inform the mother
of the full gravity of the mishap he
children had suffered, but on the way
out of the gates she overheard a person
say two boys had been killed on tn
railroad and Immediately surmised the,
were hers. She was Frustrated by thu
shock she received at o~verhearing tn
casual remark and tainted three times
on the way home and remained In {
very low state throughout the afternoon
Agent Gimmel Of the Montana Unior
stated that the railroad employees ex
p~erience the greatest difficulty in keep
ing boys who live in the vicinity from
playing about the cars and that he ha
repeatedly warned parents that SOM
day some of the boys would be killed
but that his efforts have no effect an
the boys are back as quickly as the!
are driven away. In fact, some of tn
parents, he said, hav been offended be
cause he warned them.
Coroner Tremblay was notified OF tn
death of the elder boy and, after view
ing the remains at the hospital, the bod.
was sent to Duggan's undertaken
rooms, where an inquest will be he'll
this evening at s o'clock. Or. Freun'
attended the younger boy at his HON
and found he had suffered no seriou
injury. He is so small that, lying be
tween the tracks, the cars passed owe
him without causing any more seriou
injury h a few bruises on one side.