The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-05
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GROUND TO DEAI TIL.
Passengers on Main Street Car Giiven.
a Sensation Yesterday.
.WoMAN's HEAR BENDING CRIES.
Threw Passengers Into a Fit of Es-
cItement That Only subsidized
When n Little Dog
Showed Up.
Passengers on Main Street Car Giiver
a Sensation Yesterday.
HEARTREN CRIES.

"oh, my child, my child" shrieked a
neatly dressed little woman in aSonizfng
tones as one of the west-pound Main
street cars was passing Seventh Street
about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Inc
car was crowded with business and probes
sional men, who were on the way TO their
homes for dinner, and instantly forty OF
fifty persons turned to See the cause OF
such an aInrmtng cry. The motorman
promptly applied the brakes and by heroic
In the street near the railway tracks stood
two women, one with her face turned
from the car wheels, as if to shut out the
revolving sight of a tiny human form
ground TO pieces beneath the heavy ma
chinery of the car.
What" cried a man on the front seat
as he saw a small, white bundle resembling
the clothing of an infant just under the
stepping board Save it, save it, sobbed
the lady in a half-smothered tone, and u
dozen gentlemen jumped from the car to
render such assistance as was within their
power al that late time.
Two or three persons rushed to the al
most fainting woman to console her.
Those who remained on the car did SO be-
cause they were riveted to their sents
upon the mangled and bleeding corpse sup
posed to be beneath them The two or
three ladies aboard were in a terrific
state of excitement and unable. to speak;
they simply appeared to be paralyzed
from fright.
AWFUL SUSPENSE.
It was an awful moment. The men
were as intensely stirred as the women.
Those who had disembarked began hur-
ried search for the mutilated form Of the
infant
Where did the car strike the child?''
inquired one as he ran around on the OPP
posite side. expecting to find the little
collection of human bones ana rare laces
there. But no one knew. Then there was
intense agony and specu!a ton. Maybe the
child had been hurled up into the ma
chinery just under the car and was there
ground to pulp. No one could see any evil
dences that such horrible fate had be-
fallen the infant. ooh my, oh N.Y.
sobbed the lady pitinbly again.
SAVED!
The conductor and the mortorman joined
in the search.
Here he comes; here he comes yelled
a fat man, who was sitting up against
the rail of the car, and at that instant a
tiny poodle-dog, with long, shaggy hair,
snowy white. trotted out from under the
car, and made a bolt for the opposite side
of the street. Seven or eight men darted
off after the tiny canine, which was soon
captured and deposited in the arms OF its
borrowing owner. The lady, with her
precious pet tightly snudsed up to her
bosom. murmured some sort of thanks and
then boarded the car. She was SO happy
that she almost cried; it was not so With
all the others on the car. The latter feit
that good joke had been unintentionaliy
played on them, and many declared they
would not be so eager to save child from
being mangled by street car next time,
unless they had better evidence that the
object under the car was child, than they
had yesterday.