The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-14
WAS INSTANTLY KILLED
Will Dorais Loses His Life in q
Runaway.
HIS SKULL WAS CRUSHED
The Neckyoke Broke and the Mad
dened Horses Dashed Down Arr
IONA Street Dorais Thrown
Against a Telegraph Pole.

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one OF Butte's best known young men
and most popular business men. was in
stantly killed in a runaway.
Mr.. Dorais is employed with his
brother, Donat Dorais. the grocer at
the northwest corner of Park and Ari-
zona streets. He started from the store
at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon with
a heavily loaded wagon containing
goods for the depot. The team was an
old reliable team which Dorais has had
for five years and which VIII drove al
most daily.
Willy Burns, a boy who lives in the
neighborhood, climbed up on the seat
with Dorais in order to get a ride. as
he often did After the team started
another boy climbed in the back of the
wagon. The team started dow Arr
IONA street at a moderate pace and
nothing unusual happened until they
had gone about a half block below Mer-
curry street. There the neckyoke seemed
to break or give way and the tongue
fell. Mr.. Dorais was seen to use every
effort to control and stop his now
frightened team. The tongue struck
the ground and broke and the horses
ran at a terrific pace down the street.
The grade of Arizona street is as heavy
as any in the city. and with each sddi-
tional jump the wagon tore down the
street faster and the horses became
more maddened.
Mr.. Dorais kept hold OF the reins,
while the two boys climbed back to
the rear of the wagon and dropped out
behind. both escaping uninjured. A
moment after the boys were out the
team and wagon mashed into a tele-
graph pole which is located just north
of the Cash grocery OF Hersfeld & Lob
benberg, No. 1893 South Arizona street.
formerly Borthwick's store. Here the
WACO was overturned and all the
goods strewn in the street. The har-
ness parted and the loosened horses tore
on down the street to South Butte.
The frightened spectators who rushed
TO the wagon could see or hear nothing
of Mr.. Dorais. AS soon as some of the
goods were removes Dorais was pulled
out from under the wreck. He was
gasping. He was laid down on the
walk and a messenger sent for physi-
clans and a telephone message was sent
to the Sisters hospital for an ambu-
lance. Dorais lay on the walk with his
head and face a mass of blood, barely
gasping and not saying a word. How
is hep the physician who presently ar
rived was asked. He Is dead" said
the physician.
The rounded man had not lived more
than hy minutes. He had evidently
struck on his head against the pole or
else his head had been crushed by
heavy portions of the wagon falling on
him. He was apparently uninjured ex-
cept in the head.
Coroner Tremblay rave the opinion
that he died of conclusion OF the brain,
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The body was placed in the Sisters
ambulance and taken to Shermsn's un-
dertaking rooms.
Will Dorais was rs years old, a native
of st. Chrysostom, Canada. He came
to Butte nine years g and has ever
since assisted In the management of
the store OF his brother, School Trustee
d. Dorais. He was unmarried. An
other brother. Joe Dorais, left for Mon
treal a few weeks ago on a pleasure
trip.
The inquest was held last evening at
Sherman's undertaking rooms. The
first witness was Mrs. France Lee.
colored, who saw the runaway and saw
the wagon strike the post and Dorais
and the boy thrown out.
Willy Burns testified that he got on
the seat with Dorais at the store. Co
ing down the street the tongue slipped
from the neckyoke.
II pOy htlpcu DOTds pun on Ine
reins. but they could not stop the team.
They struck the post. The by was
thrown out and struck on his hands
and knees. He was not injured.
Dennis Driscoll. the other boy, said
he climbed out of the back Of the
wagon when the horses began to run
away.
Louis CIR 4 described the runaway.
Dorais W own from the seat when
tb post was struck. He helped pick
aim up. He gasped a couple of times
becnd that vas ell. The witness first no
tiled me team running at the Swiss
house. The tongue had got loose from
the neckyoke. He saw one boy on the
seat with Dorais.
J. ID. Bolin OF pa South Arizona street
aid he saw the runaway. He was
standing in front OF his place of bust
ness about 10 mute before 8 o'clock
and saw Dorais driving a team down
Arizona street. AS the team passed
Mercury street the witness noticed
that the tongue was down. The team
was not going fast then. Dorais did
everything he could to manage them
but the team was gaining speed all the
time. About 10 feet before the wagon
struck the telegraph post Dorais
dropped the lines and jumped, but II
was too late. One boy had dropped on,
OF The back of the wagon and the other
on the seat was thrown out but was
not injured. Dorais jumped and was
thrown against the post. He was out
of his seat a second or two before the
wagon hit the post. There was nc
other runaway on the street at the time
and the street was clear.
Donald Mcmillan of 500 East Park
was down on Arizona street and saw
the His story was similar
to that OF Mr.. Bolin. He saw Dorais
thrown out of the wagon and fall to
the ground.