The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-07
CRUSHED | UNDER CAR MOtOrman Hines Gave Life For Duty. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT Employe of the Montgomery
 Street Railway Killed. Young Man Looking Under Moving Car
 Was Struck by Post of viaduct
 and Thrown from His Posi-

Thomas H. Hines. a young motorman of the Montgomery Street Railway eight hours, died yesterday afternoon at 4:10 o'clock at local inflrmary, sue- cumbing to horrible injuries which re- suited from a collision of his person with the upward stone projection of the viaduct at the end of Commerce Street. At o'clock yesterday morning Con- ductor J. l.. Smith, street car No. AZ. standing in the rear vestibule expc- rienced two severe jolts in quick suc- cession. Looking through the car ahead he saw nobody at the controller. The car. moving at the rate of eight miles an hour was within a few feet of the curve In the single track, tending toward the depot Conductor Smith, stupefied at the absence of the motor man, rushed headlong through the car, and grabbing the controller. shut off
 the current. The car stopped and he looked back.
 stunned and Writhing. Motorman Hines, stunned and writh- ing lay outstretched on the track. Both legs were across the left rail, mangled and bleeding copiously. The sight of
 him was sickening.
 Conductor Smith hastened to call d doctor. He called two doc tors and more, all of whom quickly ar rived at the side of the suffering young man.
 Stimulants were administered MT. Hines, while an overcoat, plucked from the crowd which thronged the scene. covered from view the crushed legs of the motorman. He was removed to the infirmary where he fingered un- til 4:10 o'clock in the afternoon. No eye witness to the accident has yet been found. But one conjecture. however, fits the circumstances, and this forms the only theory that has ISained credence. Motorman Hines, all | though for several months he has ope- rated a Court Street and Union Depot street car. for some reason must have | had his attention attracted to an irreR- | ular noise beneath the car. Perhaps he | believed there was a mishasp to the | fender An ugly laceration in the right | jaw and fractured jaw bone would ip-
 dicate that young Hines stopped upon | the steps to the left and was peering at
 point somewhere under the car. Fell Under His Car. Too long an examination proved the | fate of the motorman. His head pro-
 truding enough outward to be struck violently by the stone post which he had passed thousands of times before 1 He was knocked from the steps and in- stantly both legs jnvoluntarily thrown | across the rail. were run over by both | wheels.
 Mir Hines was. in this way, put into
 a circrit carrying 500 volts of electric iity, which gave him a severe shock | The intense agony from the severed llirobs, the hard impact of the collision
 and the current of electricity rendered 1.-the motorman unconscious. He dId not
 make an intelligible statement Of the
 accident SO far as could be ascer' Itained He uttered faint groans right
 after he was run over.
 Over two years ago Mir Hines began
 working for the Montgomery Street Railway as a motorman. He had 1T this time attained to a high proficiency
 and although only 20 years old was ont
 of the best men in the employ of tho lcompany.
 An examination of the car is said tC have revealed no trouble with the ma lchinery. What attracted the motor mans attention was not heard by tho
 conductor. The pair of jolts which tho latter felt was no doubt caused by the car running over the limbs of MT Hines.
 Father Reaches Montgomery. Receiving telegraphic advice of hi' sons accident, c. T. Hines. father o the dead man, came to Montgomery las
 night from Columbus. Ga, over the Central of Georgia Railway. He wa! sorely affected by the first sight of his
 sons body at an undertaking establish
 ment where 1t was taken.
 No operation was performed on young Hines, as, from loss of blood, he wa! too weak.
 The deceased boarded at the house of a relative, Mrs. M. G. Cloud. co Highland Avenue. He had been 1T
 ntgomery about seven years, up tt lthe time of his first service with tn,
 street railway company having worked