Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-13
CRUSHED BY A MOTOR CAR
s, A. Goodell of Florence Instantly Killed
While Riding a Bicycle.
EMPLoYE OF THE OMAHA WATER WORKS
Falls in Front of nm Intcrurbnn Car
and is Mnnslcd by the Wheels
Death Comes in
Moment,
EMPLoYE OF THE OMAHA WATER WORK

ploye Of the Omaha Water Works company,
while riding a bicycle on Avenue A yester-
day morning was struck by a motor and
crushed beneath the wheels, killing him in
| stantly. At the time of the accident the
name of the unfortunate was not known.
The body was removed TO the undertaking
rooms of C. Lunkley on Broadway, where It
remained unidentified until near o'clock
last evening. Coroner Treynor will hold an
| inquest at s o'clock this morning
The accident occurred on Avenue A, be-
| tween Sixteenth and Fifteenth streets
Motor No. SO, one of the company's large
open cars, was in charge of Motoneer James
Mcclure and Conductor A. D. Van Horn and
was coming east. When 1t was about half
way between Seventeenth and sixteenth
streets man riding a wheel coming south
on Sixteenth street turned on to the avenue
and rode eastward between the tracks ahead
Of the motor. Motoneer Mcclure at once
rang the gong and continued to do so as the
car drew near the rider Noticing the man
appeared to take no notice of the warning
Mcclure leaned out of the vestibule window
and shouted to the man. AS he did so the
man either fell off or attempted to jump off
ana the wheel swerved almost directly in
front Of the motor. Mcclure at once shut
off the power and applied the brakes but
the bumper of the car struck the man on
the head, knocking him down and under the
, wheels.
The motor was stopped within sixty feet
or fifteen feet more than the length of the
car. Only the front wheels had gone over
the man and when the car was stopped he
was found lying next the rear truck. He
had been instantly killed.
The entire top of the skull had been
torn away and pieces of the skull, flesh and
( brains were strewn along the rails. The
! body was otherwise terribly mangled and
cut The neck was broken, as was every
bone in the body except the left arm. In
addition to these injuries there was deep
, cash in the left side, which alone would
have been sufficient to have caused death
e The body was as soon as possible removed
: to Undertaken Lunkleys rooms. There was
a nothing to identify the dead man, no papers
i being found on his person. His clothing and
the appearance of his hands indicated
however that he was working man. In
addition to plug Of tobacco and an order
n on an Omaha firm of photographers the only
e thing found in his pocket was purse con-
q tanning 60 cents.
e Dead Man Identified.
S George Meierstein OF Omaha identified the
a | dead man as being S. A. Goodell an EN-
n ploye OF the Omaha Water Works company
d at Florence. He said he had sold him the
= wheel which he was riding at the time of
the accident last July. He was one of two
brothers, he said, living in Florence, one of
whom was married, but did not know
whether the dead man was the single or
:. the married one. The police tried to get
i, word to the mans relatives at Florence last
:. night but failed, owing to the telephone
"a wire being down.
n Motorneer Mcclure is one Of the oldest
n employees OF the company and is regarded as
=, one of its best men, He said: when the
;, man on the wheel turned east from Six
10 teenth street he was a block ahead of the
- car. | was watching the crossing and saw
- him as soon as he turned onto the avenue
"a l at once sounded the gong. l noticed he
was very close to the track that we were
> on and / called out to him to be careful
-, not to get too close. | hardly had the words
~ out of my mouth when he tried to jump from
his wheel and when he did so he got directly
in front of the car, At this time we were
Stacking up, as ! had shut off the current
49, applied the brake and reversed the power
10 but 1t did not save him. I do not believe
- the wheels struck him at all. The bumper
- struck him and | believe must have killed
- him instantly, when his head struck thu
80 car 1t made loud crash
~ Fred Stone, a colored man living at l.
~, North Fifteenth street. was sitting in from
" of his house, but a few yards distant from
. the scene of the accident and was an ey
~ witness to it all. His description of how
., 1t happened corroborated the account givel
- by Motorneer Mcclure. number of pas
~ sengers on the car who witnessed the killinj
=. OF Goodell say the motorneer was not II
II, blame They are of the opinion that whel
,T Goodell found the car was so close to hin
80 - he became confused and either fell off o
nd attempted to jump off his wheel, and il
'N doing so landed on the track directly Il
front of the motor. They all testify t
the fact that the motorneer sounded tn
r. gong repeatedly as the car approacbe
of Goodell,