Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-17
A LITTLE GIRL
GROUND TO DEATH
Run in Front Of a West Side Street
Car Last Night
WAS TERRIBLY MANGLED'
Fnteiul uarning TO Parents who Per-
nit Their children 10 "Caich on
TO Passing vehicles"

At o'clock last evening an accident
occurred at the corner Of First south
and Sixth West streets In which little
5-year-old Dorothy Ayerett lost her mo
Nv being ground to death beneath the
cruel wheels Of passing street ear
Tie little one was the daughter OF IL.
$. Ayerett who three years ago moved
to 675 west First South street from
Grantsville Of this state. The child
lad been playing on the thoroughtare
the most Of the afternoon in company
with her brother. the two amusing
themselves by catching on TO the BACK
Of passing carriages, riding for short
distance on one, and then catching ar
ether coming from the opposite direc
ton. She had just dropped from tire
back of one carriage when Jordah
Bridge car No. 129 was coming down
the street, Evidently bewlldered by
the nearness Of the car, she started
4, cross the track directly In front or H.
SO sudden was the movement OF tie
title girl, and 50 quickly did she ap-
pear upon the track from behind tEe
rig. that Motorman r. c. Ferguson,
who was running the car found II I'M
possible 10 stop It's progress, ana IRE
child was dragged beneath the Wheels
which nearly severed the little Dooy
In passing over H.
The car was loaded with about 40
people who were returning to their
homes after their days work and VINO
were thrown into a state Of excitement
bv the smothered sCretm Of the victim
a. she disappeared beneath the car.
William jenkins, who was on the front
end of the car made vain attempt
u catch the little tot before the cat
struck her, but 1t all came so quickly
that nothing could be done.
The motorman says that he was run
ming at less than his usual rate OF
srced. as he was slowing up in order to
let a passenger off. As soon as he
saw the little girl he reversed the lever
and applied the brake, but as the track
was slippery from the leaves when had
blown upon IL he found il impossible "a
Lring It 10 a stop inside Of 40 feet frola
T. o place where the child was struck.
henry ltdultlt RH' 'viuuN'pi y. '"N
car. was on the rear end and knew
nothing Of It until he heard the cry
of the child beneath Death was al
most instantaneous, as when the body
vas picked up a moment after the ac-
g. lent there was no sign OF life in II,
Mrs Averett. the step-mother OF IN =
child, was standing in the door OF her
home when the accident happened, and
was so overcome with horror that sAe
tainted and fell to the ground
Or. Wilcox who was called 10 the
scene shortly after took the body to the
lone Of the parents He said that the
child had been completely dlsembo"-
elcd The mother of the little girl died
at GAINESVILLE about two years ago,
aid the body win be taken there for
interment. after the inquest which
County Atty. Loofbourow has decided
To have held before Justice Morris SOM
mcr
Assistant Supt. Arnold, said today,
that he had visited the scene of tie
accident. and had also measured the
lifesaving shield on the front end 81
the car and found that il was only two
and one half inches from the ground.
Ho cannot imagine how the body OF
the child could have got beneath the
wheels. In speaking Of the tenders
which II Is the intention Of the con-
pany to put upon the cars, he said that
.hey were already ordered, and that
as quickly as they could be got to salt
Lake the entire system would be equip
!od with them.