The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-28
Her Sixth Child TO Meet a
Violent Death.
Freight Car Jumps Track and Crash.
es Iuto Cattle Car Around which
People Were Gathered.


ing on another track and shunted 1t
westward, cutting off the legs of Ray
Folliett, aged 10, who was trying to
crawl to safety by passing under the
car. Mrs. Hattie Diamond, aged 80,
of Fies avenue, was struck by the
car which jumped the track, knocked
down and seriously injured. Ray
Folllett died of his injuries at the
Central Emergency hospital at 81
o'clock Friday morning.
The boy and the woman, together
with a humber Of others, had gone
to the car which was standing on the
siding to get milk. In the car was
number of cows and the owner,
having no use for the milk was CIV
ing 1t away to the neighborhood.
Some OF those about the car door saw
the freight approaching in time to
get out of harms way. The frs.
car struck tiny Edna Laughlin,
knocking her down but fortunately
she fell Off the track and was not
hurt. Her brother, Floyd, also had a.
hairbreadth escape.
After finishing his supper Ray
Folliett took a small pail and start
ed from his home across to the Big
Four tracks, hardly stones throw
away, to get some milk. Before
leaving he placed a bowl with some
bread or the table, preparing for a
little feast upon his return.
Cheerfully calling goodbye to his
mother he ran across the field never
more to return. He was standing in
front of the car door when he saw
the car on the other track leave the
rails. It meant certain death for him
to remain and he quickly dived be-.
meath the car containing the cows,
expecting TO crawl TO safety on the
other side. But the runaway car
was too quick for him. The car un-
der which he was crawling was shunt-
ed along the track and the merciless
wheels ground into a pulp the tiny
legs of the little lad.
The Hess and Markert ambulance
made a hurried run TO the scene and
transferred both the boy and the
woman to the Central Emergency.
Drs Rhu amputated both of the
boys limbs in vain endeavor to
save his life. He never rallied from
the operation, dying at six o'clock
Friday morning. Mrs. Diamond sus-
tanned a broken hip and other injur-
les, It is feared that internal injur-
les were sustained.
At the Central Emergency hospital
this afternoon it was stated that Mrs
Hattie Diamond is in a most critical
condition and practically all hope OF
recovery has been abandoned. Every
thing possible to aid the patient has
been done but she has not rallied
from the anaesthetic given her at the
! time her dislocated hip was set. The
injured woman is rather frail and II
| is believed that the shock was too
great for her to stand.
At the home of Leander Folliett,
father of the boy on LaTourette
street, the cup OF sorrow runneth
over. The aged mother, white-hair-
ed and wrinkled by the flight OF
time, lies in condition bordering
upon nervous prostratlon. Seven
times she has given birth TO child
rem and six times mas a child been
brought home dead. Thirty-fiye years
ago William Folliett, aged 10, fell
from gravel wagon in front of the
present high school building and was
brought home dead. That was hard
to bear but this accident is the hard
est Of all, the taking away of the
pride OF her life, her only boy. The
scene at the home is tinged with a
pathOs that would touch the heart
stings OF the most hardened in life's
adversities.
On a little table in the scrupulous-
ly clean kitchen is the bowl and the
bread, waiting for the boy to return
with the milk. Outside are his chick
ems, his doves, his animals, and
big garden, covering several lots.
which ne was taking care OF, ali
awaiting his return. Inside the
home is the mother calling loudly for
her boy. Longing to have him throw
his arms around her and kiss her as
he bade her good night every even
ing in his life; longing TO hear his
cheerful voice or to see him wave tc
her after he had finished his work
and started for school. The mother
beseeches the Master to let her &c
with her boy at whose bedside she
watched until the spark OF life had
fled. Anxious when he did not re-
turn home at once the mother hac
Inquired and learned that he had beer
taken "up town"
The father with lowered head
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