The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-17
Accident Occurred at Main and
Walnut Streets at 8 O'clock.
HE DIED IN FIFTEEN MINUTES
The Old Man Was the Oldest Son of
Micajah Bates, for Many Years City
Engineer OF Richmond For
Mary Years He Was in the
Dry Goods Business.
Friends and Relatives

Mr. Henry Bates, Of No. 1907 West Cary
Street. was struck and almost instantly
killed by a Passenger and Power car at
Main and Walnut Streets at . O'Clock
last night.
Mr. Bates was attempting to cross
Main Street, going southwark to his
home lie was an old man. being in his
seventy-eighth year, was somewhat deaf
and his eyesight had failed somewhat.
He was in the habit of carrying a Ian
tern at night. but last night he had no
lantern but a small can of Oil instead.
The night was a rather dark one and
the crossing is in the county where there
are no electric street lights. The old man
was walking slowly across the street
slono. He hao crossed the west-bound
track on the north side of the street
Just as he stepped on the rail OF the east
bound track, on the southern SIDE OF the
street he stepped into the brilliant ight
cast bv the headlight Of Main-Street car
No. 55. OF the Passenger and Power COM
many. not more than ten feet off and
coming eastward The car, an open sum-
,ner car. almost unoccupicd, was In
charge of Motorman ". T. Bailey and
Conductor II. Thomas. The car was run
Ming a, an average rate of speed. proba-
bly, about six miles an hour 1t happened
10 be ahead of its schedule time, and the
current at the time was shut off ana the
car was rolling with the momentum II
had gained. The street is PfaeAieais
level at this point.
WAS WITHOUT HIS LANTERN
Mo:orman Bailey knew Mr.. Bates very
we'll by sight He lived only s4uai
dis,ant from the car sheds, and was a
familiar sight passing TO and fro across
the tracks in the daytime and at night
az night nearly always with lantern
The men had frequently had 10 slow up
For hin, 10 pass i knew that he was
somewhat deaf an. eouid not histiic'is
hear an approaching car, .
Last night the oiu man OIL seems "
have given out. He was without ms IAN
-arn but was returning with oil with
which to iii it,
Motormau Bailey. as soon as ne Sa"
Mr. Bates step on the track ahto tNt ma :
row path of light made by the headlisii,
and not more than ten feet Oh, a one
recoenfze,i that his car would strike MN.
caught we'll and the motors leVeEseu.
The car came 10 a full stop within haif
irs own length. The old man seems not
TO have seen or heard II all ALL even
after stepping in the light of the mead
lirht on the track. He was struck by
the fender. when probably nearly across
70 the southern rail and was thrown
.airs, corner of the platform of the car
and 10 the ground. When the car stopped
and he was picked UP he was lying on
tho ground opposite the third or fourth
seat of the car. He never regalned con
sciousness. The accident happened about
,brae wards west of the line of Walnut
Street.
HIS. INJURIES FATAL
ar Bates was picked up by the car
men and carried on the car to the SHEDS
az Main and Vine streets one squa a.
distant The ambulance, in charge of Dr
ITlepe,lhimer ana Dr. H Stuart Mclean
Tho nhvsician of the company. We're sum.
,noned, They arrived in a few minutes
ma about the same time The old mar
had been carried into the small Office
room and laid on the floor The doctors
AZ once saw that he was probably dying
II,nnder,nic injections We're resorted tc
and a phone message was sent TO 'he
virri1ia Hospital to make ready place
h,.t in five minutes the old man was dead
There We're some bruises of minor i'm
nortance about the legs and arms where
he had been struck by me fender or car
There was a small cut over the left eye
-rhe hack of the head was injured and
,ba sl,r1I- nrorat!y fractured at the has'
of the brain. No ether bones Wer'
broken. ~.
1,orimcr James, the coroner OF the couh
*. Failing in this, Dr. TAYLOR was com
municated with and permission secured e
remove the body to Bennetts .s, uhoer'ah
,nr establishment. DR.. James Will ue
niSa today whether an inquest will b.
held.
A wELL-KNowN CITIZEN.
AZ, Bates had been for seventy year
q resident Of Richmond. He was tie o'd
esi son of Mica jah Bates. for many year
CITY Engineer Of Richmond he Va
born in Hanover county. ard was %
MANY years IN the dry goods business
beng connected with the fillns OF Levy 9
Davis and tFonouereau & Cardoza. + o
some years he had not been in business
and had lived at the home of Mr. r.
Jackson. No 1907 West Cary Street. 70
several months he has taken his meals a
the home of his nephew, DR.. w, -. Wli
lis, No. 100 Grove Avenue. MI Bates ma
MAYER married Mr.. S. E. Batos. hi
brother, of the City Engineers Office
died short time ago. He leaves two Sis
fers. Mrs Catharine Willis. of RichmoEo
ard Mrs. ]. b. Robinson. of Caroline
and four half brothers. MIR. Jacob Bates
Of Etchison. Bates 6; S,arke; Mr.. Fran
r. Bates. of the City Engineers Office
Mr.. John p. Bates. of Baltimore and til
Rev. walter G. Bates. of the Methods
Church.
Mr. Bates served in the Confeierat
Army and was a member of Broad-Suet
Methodist Church,
Funeral arrangements will be ar
nounced later.