Show BOY IMPALED ON WAGON SHAH SHAFT IJ I J S Burleson A D T Messen Messenger gel ger Victim of Tragedy on Second South JAGGED WOUND IN CHEST WAS BENDING OVER HANDLE HANDLEBARS HANDLEBARS HANDLEBARS BARS OF BICYCLE 4 H 4 64 44 4 4 4 The parents parent of or J S Burleson 4 who live at Argentine Kan l ln were 4 notified by wire yesterday afternoon 4 f of the tragic death deeth ef the time young oung man 4 4 and the tho tJ following reply was re f 4 father by J 3 A Spik 4 er cr manager of dr the tile A D T office of Ice 4 4 here Bury flury there make no rio unnecessary sary 4 4 expense ox pense I am a poor POOl man Mail Mall 4 4 bills minus uny any funds lunds he may have ha 4 4 Ship belongings belonging C O 0 D Will 4 4 write J S BURLESON 4 1 4 Upon receipt of this thie message mc an cf ef f 4 4 4 fort was at once oneo begun to raise the 4 4 funds necessary ry to send UK the body 4 4 4 back to the old home 11 orne for or burin I t s 4 The amount necessary nry to defray th tho the 4 expense of shipment Is an anti ant I 4 it is expected that it will be raised 4 4 today by subscription Contributions f will be received at The Herald of ot 4 flee fice The contributors starting the 4 are 4 Hemenway Moser eo 4 The Herald Herold AV 1000 4 t t tt t Riding TV with Ith his body bo y bent over the tho handle bars of his bicycle and hurrying to return to the office after a run J 3 b i Burleson an n ii A D T messenger s nger boy 2 years old ran Into a n wagon yesterday afternoon a little before 3 and arid sustained injuries front fro which he lie died about an hour later latr at atthe atthe atthe the emergency hospital In the tue pollen police station The accident occurred on West Vest Second South Sou h street near nea n a Main Maln street streetA A delivery wagon owned by Hemen Hemenway Hemenway Hemenway way Moser and driven by Harold Harol l lEvans Evans had stopped stop pea on the south side of Second South street and then started across the street to make a delivery deliver Evans saw Burleson coming west vest at rapid rate and saw that Burleson did dil not see him He attempted to turn In lit order to avoid the messenger but was wag too late Burleson struck one of tho th shafts TV with ith such force that it pene penetrated penetrated his chest to a depth of several inches entering just above the left nip nipple nipple nIppie pie and tearing its way into the peri pericardium pericardium pen Lifted Into Air The unfortunate boy was lifted Into the air and then slipping sUpping slowly back backward backward backward ward fell unconscious into the street The accident was witnessed by a num nUIL number ber bor of bystanders and several ran to the lads assistance He was picked up and carried into a hallway next to J JA JA JA A Pollock Cos offices Blood gush gusa gushIng gushIng Ing from the wound In his breast left a great gr t red mark across the stained at ined the hallway as he was carried Into it Doctors Beatty Whitney and W L Ellerbeck who were called to treat him soon saw that nothing could be bo bedone bedone done for him An examination of a superficial character showed that tho the injury was necessarily fatal The boy never neer regained consciousness even un under under under der the tile powerful stimulants adminis administered administered to him Within a few moments the police ce arrived and he be was taken to the emergency hospital where further efforts to revive him blat were made but without effect He died shortly after 4 Driver Held Blameless Evans the driver of the time wagon was as deeply distressed over oer the tile accident though witnesses declared that he was wa waIn in no way responsible for it He said sald that he had come tOme from West Second South street driving along the south southside southside southside side of the street and stopping a fe te feet from the point of the fatality to tomake tomake tomake make a delivery deliver Having concluded conclude this he started across the street in his ills wagon to which TV was as attached a single horse The animal was walking waIkin and under perfect control As he lie crossed the north street car tracks Evans saw 1 w Burleson coming and realized Burlason because he h b was bent low over ocr the handle bars o ohis r I his bicycle did not see him I 1 tried to turn to avoid him Evens went on but I could not swing in time He Ha struck the shaft with such force foree as t to tf almost throw the horse on its haunches and to break br k one of the straps of the harness The shaft that pierced Bur Burle le ons body showed red for a of more than a foot John Van Houten who was standing stan ln where he lie could have hao an unobstructed d view of or the accident and who helped to pick up the body of pf Burleson corroborated corroborated corroborated rated Evans He said that if Burleson had been b en sitting upright on his wheel he could not have bave failed to see the wagon and so would have avoided In Injury Injury jury At the A D T offices in the Atlas Atla block It TV was as said that Burleson came here from Kansas City several months ago and had been employed practically ever since as a messenger He had ha n ni relatives here |