Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-11
NATHAN S. MLEAN KILLED
Struck BY Motor Gar on Council Bluffs Line
While Walking on Track.
HEAD CRUSHED BY IMPACT WITH CAR
Deceased Lived in Council BUNS and
Was Interested In = Lumber
Firm Doing BusIness in
Omaha.

Nathan S. Mclean, preslden: OF the John
son-McLean company. a planning mill and
wood working concern at Sixth and Jones
streets, was struck and instantly killed by
a westbound car on the line Of the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge company
In Council Bluffs yesterday morning. The
accident occurred at the corner OF Thirty
sixth street and Avenue A at 1922 a. m.
No one on the car Knew the dead man, but
he was identified by papers in his pockets
which bore the name Of Nathan s. Mclean.
Among these papers we're letters and a
Communication book on the bridge line.
MIR. Mclean was walking toward Omaha
between the rails OF the right-hand track.
The car was running at high speed and the
fender caught the man from behind about
the height OF the knees. He was thrown
ackwsrd against the front Of the car, his
head striking the top Of the fender and
bending the iron Stats back out OF place.
This blow killed him and the body was then
thrown UP into the air and to one side. As
the car whirIed by passengers on the rear
platform saw the body in the light from
the car windows. 1t fell in the ditch fifteen
feet from the track, where II was found.
The head was crushed in the back, but
the face was not mutilated. Aid was called
from the car barn at Twenty-ninth street
and Manager Harrington was quickly on
the scene with a corps Of assistants. Cor
oner Treynor was notified and be sent I'm
dertaker Cutler out for the body, which
was removed to the morgue.
Mr.. Mclean lived at Twenty-third street
and Avenue ID, Council Bluffs. His pres
enee in the part OF the city where he was
killed at that time of night was not ex-
planned last night. The car which struck
him was No. 50, one OF the long ones. II
was in charge OF Motorman William Ponce
low and Conductor William Fuller. 1t was
the last car west for the night and left
Broadway connections on time.
The shock Of the collision was strong.
Tn entire car was Jared and everyone of
the fifteen passengers noticed It.
MOtOrman's story.
Motorman Poucelow stopped the car
within 125 feet OF where the body fell. Most
Of the passengers thought the car had run
over a piece OF wood or a stone, till Ponce
low came back and said he had struck a
man. The body was lying face downward
and blood was flowing profusely. II was
thought on a hasty examination that some
bones in the body had been broken.
HE was walking slow along the tracks,
close to the outside rail-" said Motorman
Poneelow. II saw him sort Of staggsr Just
as the car came on him. He paid no at
tention to 1t and we hit him with the outer
edge Of the fender. The body came back
and struck the corner OF the car, which
threw him frontwards and to one side"
There -ss no moon last night and II was
very dark at midnight. The light afforded
by the headlight was not sufficient to give
Motorman Poneelow any adequate warning
at the speed he was making. Passengers
said he did not rims his gong At all before
the collision, and It Is thought he caught
sight of Mn Mclean just before the car
struck him