The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-30
MET SUDDEN DEATH
Under GAR WHEELS
Maxwell Teter Killed Near
MiItner Elevator Go.
GASPED TWICE AND DIED
Fell Between Two Cars While
Setting a Brake.
GASPED TWICE AND DIED

Maxwell Teter, an emrloye of the Milf
ner Elevator company, fell under a heavi-
ly loaded car, a few feet north of the
elevator at 1915 yesterday morning and
was almost instantly killed. The right
arm and the trunk and other arm being
almost cut in two.
The accident occurred at the Miltner
Elevator siding, which is a few yards
north of First street on the Santa Fe
line. Teter was on his knees en- top of
an empty car tightening the brake when
two cars loaded with wheat which had
been kicked onto the siding by the switch
engine struck the car on which he was
kneeling with sufficient force to throw
him between the cars. He fell with his
body across the tracks, and in the pres
ence of several of his fellow workmen
and friends his life was ground out IN
der the wheels
Alva Miller, who is also employed at the
elevator was the first to reach the IN
fortunate young man and he tells the fol-
lowing story OF the affair: 'Teter was
on top of the car setting the brake as is
always customary for the elevator hands
10 keep the cars from blocking the First
street crossing and he had seen that the
switch engine was about to kick in two
more cars on the siding. He was on
his knee twisting the brake and l could
not tell whether he saw the cars of wheat
approaching or not. When they struck he
was thrown between the cars. and ]
saw him fall across the rails. 1 was
only a few feet away and l ran toward
him as fast as l could. When I reached
him the first wheel had passed over him
1 took hold of his feet and started to pull
him from under the train. but before 1
had succeeded the second wheel of the
trucks had started over the body. When
] finally pulled him from under the wheels
he was badly mangled and the blood was
squirting from his body and arms. He
gasped two or three times and passed
away"
The car that ran over him was an ex-
ira large one. being an $1,000 pound ca
pacity car, ard was loaded to its fun
capacity. 1t with another smaller car
was assigned for the Miltner elevator.
and the switch engine No. 1915 in charge
of Engineer Schwabb had kicked them
on the siding. The switch foreman Ceur-
yoist was clinging TO the steps of one
of the wheat cars when it struck the
empty. He saw Teter as he fell across
the rails and was at his side almost at the
same time that young Miller reached
him. Ernest Spidel, Thomas Reed, Dave
Rombolt and Fred Boucher. who work
at the elevator were also witnesses of
the accident and their descriptions or
1t are substantially the same as that of
Miller.
Teter fell from the car head first and
there is a scalp wound on his head where
he struck He lay face downward as
the wheel passed over his right arm, cut
ting it off completely. The wheels then
passed over his body just below the dia-
phram, crushing il till his body seemed
20 be held together only by the skin. The
left arm was cut in two above the elbow.
with only a ligament holding the two
pieces together.
The mangled body was picked up and
taken to the Bleitz undertaking rooms.
The trends We're notified as was also
Coroner McCollister. but he decided that
there was no need of holding an inquest
Maxwell Teter was a Kansas boy ard
was born on a farm about four miles
south of the city. He has been employed
at the Miltner Elevator company less
than year and had made many friends