The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-07
INO. CHILDREN
ARE CRUSHED
BY AN ENGINE
Struck BY Special While K:
on Canal Trestle and
Hurled to Death.
MOTHER SAW ENGINE
STRIKE HER CHILD
Powerless to Save Daughter She
Plunges Into Stream After
Lifeless Body.
TWO LITTLE GIRLS WERE
WALKING SIDE BY SIDE.
Lizzie Nolan Daughter Of John
Nolan, Of Holly Street, and
Lillian Marriotte, Her
Playmate Meet Hor-
rible Death on
Trestle.
Powerless to Save Daughter She
Plunges Into Stream After
Lifeless Body.
TWO LITTLE GIRLS WERE
WALKING SIDE BY SIDE

Two little girls. neither Of whom was
nver nine years of age, were instantly
killed BY a special train over the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad at the i've
mile trestlc near the new settling basin
yesterday afternoon about $50 O'Clock.
one was horribly 1nangled. both legs be-
ing severed from the body, the hands
crushed and body rIashed and the other
had the skull crushed and was thrown
from the trestle into the canal, where
It's lifeless body was recovered by the
mother who was an eyewitness to the
horrible accident.
one OF the children was Lizzie Doan,
the nine-year-old daughter OF Mr. and
Mrs. John Dolan, who reside at No GIG
Holly street The other child to meet
Instant death beneath the grinding
wheels OF the locomotive was Lillian
Marriott, nine-year-old Italian gtrl.
whose parents reside in the ne'ghoornood
OF the scene Of the accident
Walking the Trestle.
Mrs. Dolan with her nine-year-old
daughter. Lizzie, and her baby, Edna.
six years OF age. went TO The country
near the settling basin. five miles north
OF Richmond yesterday afternoon to-
gather some walnuts. They were re-
turning when Lillian MARRIOTT, the little
child who had been playmate OF the
Dolan child. Joined them and was walk
Ing with her companion. Mrs. Dolan,
with her baby in her arms, was in the
lead and had crossed the trcstle which
is only about twenty feet long, and
which spans the canal at this place.
when shc heard the approach OF a train
from the rear.
II was on the side track at the south
end OF the trestle when ! saw the train
bearing down upon my children" said
Mrs. Dolan when seen last night by
Times Dispatch reporter. Il was on the
siding with my baby hero tshe placed
her hand upon her youngest child when
saw the locomotive. couldn't get back
to my child and the other little child
who was walking with her. and yelled
to them to jump had hardly uttered
the words when the train struck little
Lillian and threw her hody under the
wheels ] screamed as loud as could,
and then saw The engine strike my
child on the head and hurl her through
the air into the canal.
jumped or the frestle tnro the canal,
waded In water above my Waist and
found my child dead ut the bottom OF
the stream. I took her in my arms and
brought her out. but she was dend Lit
tle Lillian dhe Marriott. child. vas 'e'-
rlbly mangled and was under .he Wheels
OF the train,
After the train had gone ahnu1 half
square It stopped and rr1rber of A
men came back to see the deSc cntidFeh'
II was special train and all Of he ia
spectors were or IT..
The mother was almoat Distracted wa
grief. She was found IN h"r roon1 eur
rounded by many kind neiShhors who
we're doing all that could be dcno 70
comfort her. Mrs. Do!an Is about fortH
years Of age and stood tho terrible
strain remarkably we'll. she is the 7'ife
OF Mr., John Dolan who for years WIS
connected with the 7oStctflcc He Is nc%
employed at Belle Isle.