The age-herald., 1901-03-19
BUGGY RUN DOWN BY ELECTRIC CAR
Horrible Accident at Hawkins
 Street Station.
TWO MEN BADLY INJURED
Peter Agan, saIoonkeeper, Crushed Beneath the Truck and Charles
 Richards Badly Brulsed-The Vehicle Demolished.

into a buggy at Hawkins street, West End, late yesterday afternoon, crushing the vehicle into splinters, mashing the body of Peter Agan, the driver, almost into a pulp and badly injuring Charles Richards. the other occupant
 The car ran about 100 feet after striking the buggy, grinding 1t and the body of Agan beneath the trucks.
 Richards was dragged along the side of the track by the protruding wreckage of the buggy. He was badly bruised and cut but not fatally injured.
 The horse escaped uninjured. | Agan lives at 126 South Fourteenth street. He owns beer saloon and keeps boarding house. Richards boards with Agan and works in the rolling mill Both are young men. Agan is stout and about S2 years old. Richards is probably sev- eral years younger.
 How 1t Occurred.
 It seems that Agan and Richards were returning from Bessemer. At West End the county road crosses the street car track just in front of the old Hawkins residence. The road where it crosses the track, is known as Hawkins street by the West End folk. Agan was driving on trot and the trolley car was coming down slight grade at a rapid pace The motorman says his controller was set at points. He sounded his gong, but apparently Agan did not hear it. There Is house which stands on the corner near the car track and neither the mo- torman nor the men in the buggy could see each other until they were almost together. Indeed the horse was crossing the track when the car bore down. In- stead of whipping up. Agan, who was driving, apparently jerked the right rein and the horse started down the car track In moment the car struck the rear of the buggy and showed it along over 100 feet before the motorman was able to stop it, though he had reversed his cur rent and applied the brakes. The horse went out to the left, was thrown down and dragged several yards before the harness broke, releasing him. He was uninjured. The buggy was ground up un- der the car, and was entangled in pieces within and about the front truck
 Richards was thrown from the buggy on the left of the track and was dragged along by the buggy, being badly bruised and sufferingsa spinal sprain, and possi- bly internal injuries.
 Mashed to Pulp.
 Agan, as the buggy was smashed, went down with it, and apparently went under the front trucks of the car without either wheel passing over any part of his body, though the toes of one foot were mashed off and his head torn by the trucks The long car apparently passed on until the motor of the rear trucks caught his body, dragged him beneath it. tore all the flesh from the center of his abdomen to the left hip and apparently then rolled him over. ground him into the gravel and small rock, filling the open cavity of the 0hdomen with dirt and grit
 or fully forty minutes he lay there
 ,od to the soil and cross ties by the
 ,;or. Men ran here and there for scant- ings or logs with which to pry the car off the crushed body. To move the car either way would have meant further crushing of the body Men came from all directions to lend a helping hand. They brought great pieces of timber and began trying to pry at the trucks of the car In their excitement they made much noise and every man seemed to want to go about the work in different way.
 Wonderful Goodness.
 Agan, in full possession of his mental faculties, though with his abdomen and pelvic bone crushed to pulp, lay quietly with his head resting in the hands of good fellow who had come up to lend helping hand, and calmly offered sugges- tions as to the best methods of prying the car from his body.
 "Get a big block Put that long scant- ling on it and under the middle of the truck. Then you fellows all get on the other end and you can raise it. Be quick. boys. I am suffering intensely" said he.
 But it was more than half an hour be- fore the car could be raised and the torn body of the brave fellow removed.
 Then Dr. F. A. Lupton, who had been at the golf links nearby, and Dr. J. c. Abernathy, who lives in the neighbor- hood and who had been summoned, came. They examined the poor fellow as he lay stretched out beside the track and then took him into the home of Prof. T. V. Glass nearby and attempted to cleanse the great gapping wound in his left side. He was apparently but mass of mushed flesh, yet his head was clear and he an- swered all questions as to who he was and where he lived.
 No Help for Agan.
 The doctors, finding no permanent relief could be given him. sent for an ambulance and removed him to Drs. Tally and Chap mans infirmary in the city, where the best medical attention was given him. But the surgeons had no hesitancy in an- nouncing that there was TO possibility of his recovery, though he might finger for twelve hours or more.
 Charles Richards, Agan's companion, was not run over by the car. He was dragged beneath the buggy and badly bruised. He was removed into the resi- dence of MT. wilmont, where the physi- clans attended him. His hands were