Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-12
CONDUCTOR KILLED
AIsssep J. Scott Was FrlshIiulIy
 CTushed Between Cart.

One of those awful trolley acci-
 dents. which have been a long time coming on the North Willow street trolley line, occurred last evenins about 11:30 o'clock when Conductor Alanson J. Scott of s73 West Main street was crushed between two cars and injured so badly that he died at the Waterbury hospital at 2 o'clock this morning. Scott's legs were frightfully mangled, one of them be- ing severed almost clean from the knee. The other was so crushed that If the man had survived 1t would have had to be amputated.
 Conductor Scott and Motorman Raymond H. Davidson were in charge of car No 35, the pole. of which came off while the car was passing Clowes's steps. A wire had broken at this point but neither of the crew was aware of 1t. The car was going rather fast on the incline. Davidson, in order to bring the car to halt, decided to plug it," which is reversing the lever. By so doing he stopped the car about 20 feet below Plaza avenue. It appears in his excitement that he left his car plugged" and this afterwards caused Scott's death.
 The pole on the car was badly bent as the result of being entan- gled in some of the wires and the crew proceeded to repair it. While Davidson and Scott were endeavor- ing to fix 1t car No 60 in charge of Conductor George Camp, came down from Highland park. The crew of this car halted their car about 10 feet behind Scott's car and all tried to fix the bent pole.
 While two of the men were on the car getting the pole ready Scott stood in the rear of the car holding the rope of the pole. There was no of the accident, 1t came like flash of lightning.
 The pole was now ready to work again. Scott pulled the rope when the men on top of the car told him It was all right and the pole went up against the wire. Immediately the car shot backward because the reverse lever was on. It came so suddenly that Scott was unable to realize what was going to happen and before he really knew where he was car No 35 had carried him back with crash against car No 80. It was an awful smash.
 By this time there were half st al Ai,,f A wild excitement ensued. The acci- lent was so unexpected that for a lew moments no one knew what to 10.
 But the lever of car No 35 was at ength reversed and the car pulled ahead enough to allow the men to .each Scott. Such an awful sight le was!
 There he lay with the left leg crushed to jelly from the knee town while the right leg had been showed against the mans body in ,uch manner that 1t must have been fractured in several places. Scott was grooming a little but was till conscious. Around him on the pavement was his money strewn In Ill directions.
 Scott with his legs dangling from lis body was carried to the construc- ion car which was nearby, having lrrived to repair the broken wire. While in the car Scott showed exhibition of pluck and outrage. Knowing that his legs were almost off yet he did not utter ! groan or say, word about the ,ain. All he. thought of was his vife and children. He drank eager y from glass of water handed Jim and calmly informed the men ttending him where he lived. He emained conscious until the ambu- ance came and bore his injuries in manner that was remarkable.
 Dr A. A. Crane arrived in his au- omobile about 20 minutes after the ccident and Lunny's ambulance anne short time later. The doctor lad the injured man immediately aken to the hospital Scott re- nained conscious to the end, dying shortly after o'clock. here were only few passengers on cott's car when the crash came, one if whom was a girl, who resides n South Main street. The young ady collapsed when the accident oc- urred and she had to be carried nto house nearby.
 Motorman Davidson was also nuch effected when he saw that cott was badly injured. He was arried to one of the verandas in he vicinity where he was quickly evived and was later able to take is car to the center.
 Claim Agent Johnson and Start r Eggleston reached the scene of he accident about half an hour af- sr it happened and procured all the lformation they could. As usual one of the trolley employees would ay a word about how the accident 
 As has been stated often before 1t ] surprising that more serious acci- ents do not occur on North Will ,w street from the manner in 'hich the cars come down by lowes's steps. It is said the poles ere coming off the cars for a ouple of hours last evening at this oint before the accident came.
 Acting upon orders from Deputy oroner Walter D. Makepeace Prose- lting Attorney Meigs to-day made It warrant for the arrest of R. H.