The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-24
Eight Year Old Lorene SchuIer
 Meets Sudden Death
GOING HOME FROM CHURCH
The Child Saw Her Grandfather and Brother In Buggy on Opposite Side of Street and Started To-
 wards Them.

Lorene schuler, the S-year-oid grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. w. R. Grif- fin, who live at 1016 Eleventh avenue, north, was run over and killed yester- day afternoon about 5:45 o'clock by Fountain Heights street car coming towards the city. The child's skull was crushed by a beam under the car. Death was instantaneous. The body was carried into the residence of pr. Cocciola, which is near the place where the accident oc- cured.
 The accident happened near the cor ner of Eighth avenue and Fifteenth street. The car was in charge of Motor man J. c. Hancock and Conductor M. D. English, both of whom were placed under arrest on a charge of manslaughter. They made bond for s2oO each and will ap- pear before Judge Feagin Thursday to answer to the charges.
 Had Been to Sewing Class.
 It seems that the little girl had been
 
 attending a meeting of a sewing class at the First Methodist church, and was on her way to the home of her grandpa rents. Her mother Is dead and her father Is in Texas. She was near the corner of fifteenth street when she saw her grand father and brother In wagon on the opposite side of the street. Without look- ing to see if a car was coming she start ed across the street only about twenty feet in front of the car.
 The car struck her and knocked her down, and a heavy beam under the front end caught her head and mashed 1t against the ground. The skull was crush ed over the left ear, and from that point the scalp was torn up. The scalp wound ran across her forehead and ended under the ear on the opposite side of her head. The right jaw bone was also broken. The remains were taken to Lige Loy's under taking establishment.
 The motorman stopped the car in half length and had the car stopped little sooner the girl would not have been killed.
 Motorman,s Statement. | Motorman Hancock made the following statement last night:
 'I was coming towards the city, ringing my bell, and had the controller turned on nine points, which Is little over half speed. I saw the little girl dart from the pavement towards the car and at once shut off the current and turned on the brake I was unable to prevent the car striking her and it knocked her down. The car had not gone more than half a length when 1t stopped The first wheels of the car did not even touch the child, but when we reached her the front beam, which is just in front of the wheels, had her head pinned to the ground.
 q was not going faster than the speed limit of the city ordinance. The little girl appeared not to see the car until she was right on it, and then 1t was too late for her to turn back"
 Heart-Rending Scene. People who witnessed the accident state that 1t was one of the most distressing they ever saw. On a wagon just few feet away were the little girls grand father and her brother. They were both passionately fond of Lorene, and the screams of the little boy were heart rending He became hysterical at times and his grief was incontrollable. The grandfather was also visibly affected. as the little girl was a very bright child and much beloved by her grandparents and | all who knew her. | No funeral arrangements have yet | been made.
 MT. Griffin, the grandfather, Is a ped dler and for some time has been taking care of his step-children, who were left on his hands some time back when their mother died. The father of the children is said to have deserted them and their mother in Texas about a year ago. Tn, mother returned to Birmingham and | died shortly afterwards.
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