New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-25
MAN AND BOY KILLED.
TWO ADDITIONS TO THE TROLLEYo
LONG DEATH LIST.

E. A. SMITH. BUILDER GROUND TO PIECES m
LONG ISLAND CITY. AND LITTLE RICHARD
sHEAs SKULL FRACTURED IN BROOKLYN.
Edward A. Smith. OF Twefth-st, Long Island
City, was ground to pieces last night beneath
troley-car OF the New-York and Queens
County Electric Railroad The accident oc.
CURED almost within sight Of his home He was
a builder and when killed was going to consult
relative to a set Of plans he was carrying in his
hand.
He started to cross Jackson ave. to take an
eastbound car. At that point there is a long.
level stretch where the cars OF the company at
tain high speed. When he was on the west
bound track hurryipg across the rails TO catch
car which was approaching from the ferry on
its way toward steinway. he saw he would not
have time TO cross the tracks in front OF the
which he wished TO catch
To himself from being run down by the
he wanted to board he stopped short. and
was struck by car bound west. He was
hurled forward. and, according to witnesses
was thrown sideways at an acute angle ana
this threw him against the side Of the car
he had been trying TO catch.
His body rebounded from the side OF this car
and fell upon the tracks in front Of the west
bound car which had first struck him. ana az
the car shot on IT tore him to pieces.
Herman Lehman. OF No. so East-ave- the
motorman had applied the brakes and was try
ing to stop the car. but II had slaokened Its
speed only slightly The forward trucks OF the
car passed over the body, and then the man
was dragged about forty feet between the front
and trucks. When the car struck him the
second time the wheels cut off both his legs, and
crushed his head to jelly. The feet and lower
portion of his legs, and the scalp and top OF the
skull were left on the pavement thirty feet
back OF where the mangled body was recovered.
When the accident occurred big crowd gath
cred. II was about 9:33 o'clock when the man
was struck and it was 1O:46 when the emer-
gency wagon arrived with apparatus to jack up
the car and get the body from beneath It.
Meanwhile the police. the Coroner's physician.
Dr. Strong, and a crowd OF a thousand or more
persons waited for the body to be taken out.
The accident completely blocked that division Of
the road The cars Of the road use no tenders.
so that when the body was struck there was
nothing to prevent II going under the wheels.
A week ago a boy was killed in a somewhat
similar manner. At the last meeting OF the
Queens Borough Board the question OF speed
attained by the trolley-cars was taken up, on II
being called to the attention Of the Board by
the Coroner's jury which investigated the death
of the boy. No action taken. although
President Bowley. OF Queens. urged that some
thing be done. The matter went over to the
meeting to be held tomorrow. the members OF
the Board proposing to take personal observa-
tion Of the speed meanwhile.
A rapidly miving Nassau trolley-car struck
a wagon at Greene ard Marcy ayes.. Brook
lyn. last evening, at 1855 o'clock. and
almost instantly killed seven-year-old Rich
ard Shea, OF No. 11S4 Fulton-st The
little fellow was riding with his uncle.
John Anderson, who driving the wag-
on and when the car struck the convey
ance both the uncle and nephew were hurled
to the street Anderson escaped with Few
small bruises, but the boy received fracture
OF the base Of the skull. An ambulance was
summoned from st. Johns Hospital, but before
the ambulance surgeon reached the sene OF tho
accident the little fellow died.
The car was In charge OF John Delougn-
rey, Of No. 315 Marcy-ave. People who saw the
accident said that the car was going at rapid
rate and that, although the motorman put on
his brake the wagon received blow which
wrecked ii. The crash was heard for some dis
tarce, and big crowd attracted to the
scene. Anderson refused to go to the hospital,
saying that he was we'll enough TO 90 nome.
The motorman was arrested.