The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-17
DIED UNDER DEAD CAR TRUCK
SEEGALL SLIPPED IN JUMPING
on CAR At UNION SQUARE.
Rolled Under ''TraIleF'-GFOaRed for ~
Minutes WINE Crowd StFoVe 10 Free
Hlm-Buyer for LarEe store Was Hur-
TyInE Home 10 Joyous Family Party.

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Minutes WINE Crowd stFoVe 10 Free
Hlm-Buyer for LarEe store Was Hur-
ryinE Home 10 Joyous Family Party.
In attempting 10 board q Broadway car
At Union Square yesterday afternoon
Joseph +. SeeEall buyer for the cloak
and suit department Of the Smpson-Craw-
ford Company, slipped ne he jumped on
the crowded rear platform. He fell and
rolled under a dead car hitched TO the one
he tried 10 board This dead car, OF trailer"
crushed his life out.
seegall tried TO jump on the car at Fiji
tenth street. Tho car was in rapid motion.
The Tenders were taken OF all the Broad
way cars when the marlborough strike
began, because the crowds I sed TO ride
on them. There was none on the car under
which Seegall fell, the polioe say. His
body rolled over and over and became
wedged under the forward truck Of the
trailer" before the motorman Of the live
car could he signalled 10 stop.
When the cars were stopped Seegsll
was still alive, and his groans could be heard
by theexoited crowd that quickly gathered.
The passengers in the live car poured out
into the street when they learned some
one had been hurt. Several women in
this car became hysterical and two tainted
when they heard the groans Of the injured
man.
Men in the crowd tried 20 lift the car
on Seegal's body. but the trucks would
not rise with the body Of the car. Then
ropes were brought and put under the car
10 give more men a chance to help TO try
20 lift it. All the while the groans Of the
man underneath were becoming fainter
and fainter. The ropes and the additional
men only tipped the body Of the car and
did not bulge the front truck
By this time there were half dozen
policemen on the scene and three Of them
were mounted cops. They kept the increas-
ing crowd back 10 give the men who were
trying 70 lift the dead car plenty Of room
20 work Police Co mmissioner McAdoo
hap pened along while this was going on
and he directed the police in their efforts
20 handle the crowd.
An inspector Of the railroad was on tho
ground q minute after the accident occurred
and he lost no time in tslephoning for a
wrecldng wagon and crew. II took fifteen
minutes for the wrechng crew to arrive,
but they lacked up the trucks quickly and
FIVE minutes later they had liberated the
An ambulance surgeon had been waiting
10 attend 70 him il he was alive. When the
ambulance surgeon jumped on the ambu-
lance and started away the crowd didn't
have 10 be told that the man had been killed.
Seegal's body was taken 10 the police
trafic headquarters at ! East Twenty
seventh street. Cards and papers found
ON him Ehav~d ,uh6 he syas and where he
lived. James Rutledge, the motoTman
of the dead car, who saw Seegall roll under
but was powerless to stop even his own
car, was arrested and locked up in the
Ienderloin station.
Seegall lived in the Manhasset at 3Ol
West IO5th street with his wife and three
children. Mrs. Segall was notified by tele-
phone that her husband had met with an
accident and she hurried 70 the police sta
ton There she was informed that he was
dead. She became hysteriCal and when
she was shown the body she cried out TO
the dead man
You can't he dead! You can't lie deadl'
Mrs. Seegal was led away from her
husbands body to an adjoining room.
When she became calm she was able 10
give instructions for the care OF the body.
Then she went home to break the news to
her children.
Seegall came here from Pittsburg two
months ago He was connected with
large dry goods store in that city and knew
40 much about the suit and cloak trade that
he came TO Simpson Crawford at a $4,000
a year increase in salary, Since coming
here to live one Of his three little girls had
been in III health She had recovered
sufficiently Yesterday 10 get out Of bed for
the first time.
Before Seegall went to work yesterday
he promised this little girl that be would
return early. His wife and the children had
planned to surprise the father by having
the convalesoent girl up to greet him.
Then they were to have a family party.
Seegal left work earlier than usual to get
home as he had promised his daughter
lie was IS years old.