Show SOLDIER MEETS VIOLENT DEATH I I Fall From Street Car Proves Fatal to Private McConnaha r of Fifteenth Infantry Private Leo B McConnaha a mem mern member ber her of ot company B of the Fifteenth Jn n fantry stationed at Fort Port Douglas Do met an untimely death early yesterday as 8 t the result of or a fall tall from the tM 1235 1233 ar it t th the curve at Tenth Eat East t tand and South streets As the car car swung onto the tilE curve McConnaha who was as standing in inthe the rear re r vestibule lost lust lostis his is balance and fell felk to th the street striking striking striking ing on his hiR head a He lie was wa picked up and hurried harried to the po pot t hospital but repined regained con junti He expired at t 45 4 V t 11 was held and de deth ded d l th f fet ct that he had sustained sus d 1 1 fracture at the base baa of the skull Kull from the median line il tant along alon the right ede o of tl ti lie head ul had ha spent ti thI th evening in the city ity lit and wee 98 s returning tj to t the fort at thic time of the accident Soldiers assert a rt the motorman did not slacken speed sufficiently to pro prevent ent the ear car from pitching as It took the curve cune Tha street railway people deny that un unusual unI Unusual usual speed was wa maintained and assert I that the soldiers had been n and 1 were unable to maintain their thir balance balam I I successfully They say the accident would not have occurred had not some son j of friends fallen against again tJ him The statement was made by Captain RIC yesterday that McConnaha was a total abstainer and that all of his friends are positive that he had not no taken any an liquor last evening Burial Buried services were held at the fort yesterday afternoon the he remains being interred with full military honors Mem Morn Members Members bers bern of company B of which deceased was a member furnished the pallbearers pall pallera ers era firing squad and musicians McConnaha enlisted In Terre Haute Ind Tad September 1 I 18 1505 1 shortly after afterward afterward afterward ward being assigned to the Fifteenth infantry A brother William McCon MeCon McConnaha naha naba at Terre Haute Ind was notified of his demise and asked that his re remains remains mains maln be buried here hereS S |