Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-16 | Page 8 | Another Body Terribly Mangled by a Street Car

Another Body Terribly Mangled By a Street Car I S A motorman on tile the Second South street tr et ear earline line had ha a 8 dead man stare scare re last night that almost cau d nervous prostration It is the story of or a straw dummy and some orne mischievous kids The motorman who has been careful to tv conceal his identity was running at ata ata atS a S good clip towards the Rio GranGe Gramie depot When near Third West Vest street he ht suddenly to his horror saw sow the form of or a man lying across the track just a It few feet in front of tile the car The motorman quickly reversed his car and nd plied the brakes with all the strength he could but the slippery tracks and the momentum of the car carried it iton iton iton on and the motorman was las forced to toI I see the form of the man disappear un under under der del the car and feel the wheels pass passover passover passover over the body Sick with horror the motorman looked back and saw parts of the body scattered along the track Trembling with nervous fright he hur hurried hurried I ried ned back to where the trunk of the body lay lILY and felt it with his hand handi i For a moment he stood as if trans transfixed transI transfixed I fixed His hand had hal grasped a bunch of straw and the realization of the fact that he had been made the vic vie victim victim tim of ot a practical joke was made any anything anything anything thing but agreeable by a 30 howl of laughter that came from behind a nearby fence as a gang of kids turn tum tumbled bled over each other to get out of range