Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-02-04 | Page 10 | Leg is Cut off by Car Wheel

I I LEG IS CUT OfF By MR CAR WHEEL Louis is Struck Down at Corner of West Temple and Sixth South Louis living at No 6 Willard Wil Willard U lard court was Wal struck by northbound Poplar Grove car No 8 at the corner comer of or Sixth South and est es Temple streets at 85 last evening receiving in injuries Injuries InJuries juries which resulted in the loss of at hU his hI right leg just below the knee He was Wa also badly bruised about the body where he was struck by the car ear An ambulance from the Saints hospital ar arrived rived on the scene within a short abort time after the accident taking the injured man manto manto manto to the hospital where be was attended by Drs S H U Pinkerton and E Van Colt Cott left home borne In Willard court shortly after 9 and went to the corner comer of West est Temple and Sixth South streets and waited there for Cor an uptown ear car The car arrived shortly afterward I and stopped on the opposite side of or the street treet from where he was standing He started across Sixth South street to board the car when the motorman George Thompson received tue tile signal from Crom the conductor to go ahead Evident ly to avoid getting nto the mud rand Straus burg bad had taken the car track and did not notice the car starting When hen about the middle of ot the street the car struck him knocking him down Both wheels of the front trucks passed over his right leg cutting It entirely off just below the knee The car was stopped Immediately and medical assistance as called Motorman I George Thompson was waI unable to say Just jU t how bow got in front of the car He said he saw BaW the man start across the street but thought he bad left the track when the car started The electric light lighton lighton on the corner comer threw Its rays in such a manner that he be was wu unable to get a clear clearview clearvIew clearview view of the track and he did not see on the track until it was wag too toG late to atop stop the car The Ibe car had only traveled about thirty feet when it struck and was not going at a very high speed