Show TRAIN THAIN MANGLES BOY AND PONY S Clyde Sharp Hurled S Feet By Engine 4 i 1 PONY WAS CARRIED TWO HUNDRED mm E J 1 i Distressing Accident in lu Southern Suburb The hand band of s death ath h fell lull en es esthe the happy b home ot T A Sharp yUr day morning ng A mangled corpse COI le Is Jsu aU 1 that remains of as brigit a aas as ever eer carried a school boc or M r made the air II ring with boyish merriment The grade crossing has ban claimed au victim At yesterday ye morning Clyde the son non of Mr r and nd Mrs Sharp was US w s told he be might haw Is his choice of or going to a party put with theother the tile theother other children n or of or going to school oeL He was wan a bright studious lad fond feed tIC C Chis his books and of or his schoolmates g chose the school and with a goodbye to his mother went to One stable to bridle the Shetland ss occasionally rode The family lives on Redwood R near Twelfth West and aDd Twelfth th It Streets The children hildren go to the nt ers Ward school some two miles away Clyde usually made the trip with the tim others in a wagon but the others eho chose e ethe the party yesterday As a result lie he set setout setout setout out alone His pony was a harum colt a more than a year yr old but it and the boy were fast tUt friends Bode Rode Merrily X Away Aw y Clyde was whistling a merry ae u uhe he rode out of the yard The crisp air tr roused reused the spirit within him he be dug his hie heels eels into his flanks QI aW ad cantered away A little more than thea t a amile 5 mile from the Sharp homestead is in the I i main line of the JUo Grande Western t railroad Clyde reached and crossed it itin itin f in safety At a point about 14 Ht feet teet I Iea east ea t of the tracks the pony became frightened at something no DO one will willever w willever I ever know what t It U turned and dashed madly back to toward toward ward the railroad A freight train traia Xo No 26 2 W WAS 8 coming from the city boun for fOl foran 1 an eastern point The track was w level leveland vel veland and the country was open It 1 impossible h for an accident to occur at such uch a 8 point and the engineer had let letout letout out a link of extra speed The toy y sr Mr w whis his hie danger r He could have ha saved himself him himself self by jumping from his hl pony hut bitt he be wont save ve his j et as s wen n as S self t His devotion to the animal eo cost t thOC nun isis his hOC life I e Manfully Ma he lid tagged t the reins putting all ali the Ule strength streith t hill blo young arms could muster into the tIN ef effort f I fort The animals nose almost touch touched ed eil its shoulder but it galloped aa an though possessed pos essed by ail an Insane frenzy t toward certain destruction The engi Dd engineer I Ineer I neer of the freight train tram saw the lad and pony after it was too late I They reached the track not ten teft feet Ii ahead of him and it was impossible to t avert the fatality The few as I J dont doit like Uke to talk of ot what followed follo The horror of it all aU is ia too fresh in ii memories All AU of them will wilt I it to their death beds The pilot of ot F the engine struck boy and pony at t the 1 same time for the youngster was lean leaning St ing far over in his to stop kin his kinmount mount He fell feU feet away led and dying The pony was lifted e ethe en the pilot and carried nearly set teet i Its body fell tell on the west side aMe of OC the track The boys corpse was on tile the theother t other Death came to both almost almont al In Ja 1 Instantly c cOne One of the witnesses of the tragedy tady was Mrs Brocks who lives at the u cor corner OI 1 ner of or Twelfth South and Fifth West est Streets She was looking out of her he window when young youg you Sharp passed on Ga his way to school chool She saw him clear cleer f the tracks in safety Then she he saw J the pony whirl as if frightened and dash back toward the rails Witnessed ed the Fatality Mrs Brocks had heard the freight 0 j train coming Ung and she knew that only a miracle could save the lad from death ea I 5 Horror glued her eyes yes to the scene From Prom where she sat she could Huld see the I collision She could almost almo t hear har the t ghastly crunching sound pound a the wood and metal of the engine grund und their theft way into the living Jiving flesh arid aid a ad hurled I it gashed and bleeding aviv awa Y Mrs Brocks did not see where the lad fell feU She hurried out of I per nor house bouse hoping against hope hoPf that ht hf might ll ht be living ant and that tha t she might m i g h t aid him As I she Went nt the foreman of a railroad ad sec see section tion gang hurried up She asked him I what had bad become of ot Sharp The fore foreman foreman ii man was UD u the track at some little t distance from the tragedy and he U I i i ih h t S she sh shouted io to l the woman to come and aid 1 4 him in n the search S I j She Sh needed no invitation for such an I rj errand In a little while they found 3 1 the body f the boy Life was not It quite extinct for he breathed faintly 5 fI S for four tour or five lVE minutes after atter Mrs f Brocks and the foremen foreman reached him himi i 4 I All consciousness ou ess vae va aa tone cone however 2 I f In this at least liast death had been merci merciful j o h ful tul for Tr the boy could not have suf suffered sit any hut but momentary pain A Ash 1 r sheet sh t was brought bro from he te e B Bt Brock t t residence and arid laid over the body Then Thea came the painful duty of breaking the ther f r news to the dead boys family 1 I t Inquest t Is Begun SS I A messenger was sent to Mr Sharp g S As gently as words could convey so JIG J 1 fearful a bereavement he was waa Informed S Ii of what hart hal happened Mrs Sharp SharpS S was stunned by bl the tragedy Her grief grf and the sorrow orrow of the other members member f of the family was pitiful beyond ex ox expression i S A conveyance was wu secured and t the corpse taken t ken to the stricken S home H U Later Leter Justice J P Gabbott Gabbett tt was noti fled fied and an t was begun It was I impossible to complete com PIe te It it however on iI I account t of the absence of the engineer t and fireman who hd h continued their theirS S 5 run when they found f they could be of S iI no service to the ted lad The jurors se so secured 5 cured were T E Price J 3 W Bird and andJE andE E JE J Wright E 0 C Dally Daily who was working on the 5 it 5 I grade near where the accident oc told his hia story atory He was S 1 ards away from the scene Beene of the fa fatality S S iI He saw the pony rush rm h upon c the die track but buc a clump of bushes pre prevented pret It t I vented him from seeing the collision collIsionS S Dally Daily hear the engine bell ring ringS 1 S or the whistle L C Dalley DaJley brother of the other witness was w yards from the point pointS S where the fatality took tk place He 3 looked lok In Jn time to see a the pony on the theS S pilot allot ilot but ut t he be see B the th boy at all al Neither Nete did he be hear her the whistle or the theS S bell bl Mrs rs Brocks story stor was practically cally cly tat as detailed above above with the addi addition additon addiS S whistle tion ton that she hear her either hell bell bl or At this point Phit the th inquest in et w was a ad adjourned a adjourned i until Saturday in order to await the tb arrival of the engineer and andS S fireman Was Wa Peculiarly Distressing The Te accident has ha some ame particularly distressing dt features in m that such sch a lit little lt littie tie tle thing ting made it ft i possible Mr Sharp SharpS S te Is I a with interests ts in the southern part ot the state and in Ida Idaho Idah ho Ito h When Wen he h goes goe out on his trips he usually takes one of the children with wih lm It I was wan wa his intention to start yes yesterday ye S morning and to take Clyde He forgot to mention menton the outing to tote the te little fellow at breakfast and when hen henhe S he thought th to mention menton it the boy had gone cne to t the stable sable to get his pony The tt hurried hurrie aft r him but when ho hoS S I the boy had gone So anxious S Ws was 55 he e to get away ay to school that he heS S saddle the pony but rode Hi lit 11 litS S bareback This made me it i possible for him to get away before his father could catch catch him himS himi i S Arrangements Arrangement for the funeral have i not n yet been completed but it will willS wi S probably Sunday be b conducted tomorrow or orS S |