Arizona republican., 1904-02-15
TO DEATH
Michael SCdnjan Killed by
 a Street Gar
A Sickening Spectacle at Washington Street and First Avenue e He Drove in Front of the Car.

Michael Scanlan was horribly mang- led and instantly killed yesterday afternoon about four o'clock by a street car at the corner of Washing ton street and First avenue. He was driving along in the direction east bound car, No. 21, in charge of Motor man David Saqui, was going. He was driving close to the track, so close, that the motorman began changing his bell while half a block away. Two ladies in a buggy were coming from the opposite direction. Scanlan evil dently did not see them until the car was just behind him and he turned his horses upon the track. The front wheels of the wagon were drawn upon the track, but the horses frightened by the approaching car swung about and the car struck the wagon back of the Front wheels.
 The wagon was thrown over and the horses were detached. Scanlan, who was sitting on the front of it, was either dragged off by the horses, or was thrown off by the concussion Just what happened then nobody saw. Witnesses are not certain whetlSe~ ne fell under the wheels or whether he scrambled under them, but in an in- stant he was under them and the car ran on for a distance of ten feet be- fore the motorman could bring it to step.
 Then those who crowded about the car saw most sickening sight. The old man was crushed beyond recogni- tion. His bTaiI.s had fallen through his cleft skull, the liver, lungs and other internal organs were exposed and the ground all about was sodden with his blood. The mangled remains were so entangled in the machinery that three-quarters of an hour elapsed before they could be taken out and put into a dead wagon which stood waiting by. In the meantime several hundred people collected about the car and women who might have been expected to faint crowded each other to get a view of the sickening spec tacle. Long after the body had been 'removed and until after dark crowds stood about the blood-marked place pointing it out to newcomers and dilat- ing upon the tragedy which seemed to have greatly enlivened a Sunday af- ternoon.
 The motorman's story of the occur rance is corroborated by J. J. EchoHs. who swas on the platform. The wit nesses also agree with them as to the actual facts of the collision. though until then no one had noticed the old man. Coroner Burnett was called and summoned a jury which viewed the re- mains. The inquest will be held this afternoon.
 Scanlan was siXty-eight years old and had lived in Phoenix for about fifteen years. He came here from Colorado and it was reputed that he was wealthy. It was said that he owned valuable property in Denver. and it was also reported that he had an account in one of the banks of this city. It was learned, though. last night that whether wealthy or net he has been for a long time receiving a small sum of money monthly from two Phoenix men who believed that they were contributing to charity It is their opinion that he had no property in Denver.
 He was a moving hermit and was thought to be off his balance. He had covered wagon and three horses, one of which was usually hitched behind the wagon. Yesterday one of the horses had been hired by him to a young woman.
 He drove about the town day after day, gathering up cast off articles such as tin cans, pieces of lumber, and bits of leather of which he apparently made no use. The street was filtered with this refuse after the collision He had no other place of abode than his wagon.
 He was at one time a freighter be- tween Phoenix and the Nulture mine, but for several years he had been en- gagged in no remunerative employment About seven years ago, while in camp in the southern part of the city, he was assaulted in his sleep one night and SO badly injured with a sand bag that it was thought he would die. It was supposed that the motive for the | assault was robbery, many persons | then believing that he was richs and that he carried his wealth about in his wagon. It was never discovered who his assailants were, but always after ! that when grand juries were in ses- sion Scanlan haunted the entrance to the jury room trying to have some body indicted for something