Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
ACCIDENT ON BIZ 0.
AUGUST NEY, A GLASS WORKER
STRUCK AND INSTANTLY KILLED
LAST EVENING.
GETTYSBURG CANNON BALL
Going East or the Pittsburg Division
a. Him Down at the Central
Glass H~Ouse-Tried to Cross in
Front Of the Trafn-A Sad Case.

August Ney, whose home is in To-
ledo, o., was struck and instantly kill
ed last evening at half-past five
o'clock at the Central glass house by
the Pittsburg cannon ball" going east
on the Pittsburg division of the B. &
O. Death was evidently instantaneous.
Ney was a g~lassworker, and his death
was rendered even more deplorable
from the fact that he had made his
last turn at the Central glass house and
was going home to his family to-day.
Ney quit work just before half-past
five, and in company with a number OF
other employees left the works. Just
across the track is a stairway which
leads up the steep embankment to the
street above. The men use these steps
in going and coming from work.
AS the little crowd of men started
for these steps the flyer" banged
through the Sixteenth street crossing.
All but Ney waited for it to pass.
Evidently he thought he could cross
in front Of the train. When in the
center of the track he was struck and
knocked down, the train passing over
his PROSTATE body.
When picked up he was covered with
blood and dust. All medical aid was
useless, as life was extinct. He was
removed to the city morgue at Wat
kins' undertaking establishment n
prepared for burial. An examination
revealed an ugly cash in the right
groin, which penetrated into the pelvic
cavity. 1t was about ten inches long.
There was a fracture of the skull on
the right side OF the head about eight
inches long. When the scalp was
pulled back the wound revealed the
brain. Either Of these two would
have proved fatal. The right leg, from
the knee down to the ankle, was crush
ed and mangled, and barely held to-
gether. The wounds were sc severe that
there was very little blood left in the
veins when the body arrived at the
morgue.
Coroner Schultze will hold an in
quest at his Office on the South Side
this morning at IL o'clock. There will
be no jury inquest. There will be a
number of witnesses, among whom will
be the engine crew.
August Ney was about fifty years of
age. He resided for many years in
this city prior to his removal to To-
ledo about five years ago. He lived at
3112 McColloch street, and was en-
ployed at the Hobbs glass works on
the South Side. At Toledo he worked
in the Libbey glass house, and later re-
turned to this city, working at the
West Virginia glass house in Martins
Ferry. Later he entered the Central
glass house, where he has since worked
as a finisher. His home is at S49 On
tario street, Toledo, o. He is survived
by a wife and four children, three boys
and one girl. The family are well
known on the South Side. August, Jr.,
the eldest son, is working at Coraopo-
lis, Pa. Eugene, the second son, is in
the electric light bulb department at
the Libby in Toledo. Cecilia and
George, the other two children, are
still in school. The family were &C
quainted of his death by wire last
evening, and up until a late hour no
orders had been received as to what
disposition to be made of the body.
He may be buried here.