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Show T tXDER THE WHEELS. Co4e Anderson Cruelly Crushed by I the Cars. VWstance. a 5-yfar-old daughter I Anderson who follows the bust rV filing fish, met with a most distress-if.fcrtuneat distress-if.fcrtuneat 4:30 yesterday afternoon South street. , tr ance, in company with a number ot rfcpanions was playing: on and about thti Central track near the Metropolitan SiLmpanv's yards, where the cars were b-fvitched back and forth. When the cfjre standing still on the tracks, the lifcirt called to her companions to f ton and they would take a L at the same time taking tljiative herself, hanging on to an iron b toss the hind end- She perhaps did n.e a firm grip or was not expecting tlrs to start so soon, but in any event s js shaken from her dangerous perch, b 'engine suddenly backing up. shock threw her from the car onto tlick and the wheels passed over one , o'llmhs just above the knee. A young a who was standing by saw the child s rand screamed to her to get out of the vat the same. time running toward her, Ifas too late to save her. e little girl gave one sharp cry of pain 8 fainted. Her limb was broken to a s-less mass and the flesh was Mng in ribbons. She was carried to her t iVs house at 74S South Third East, .UcVo she was attended by Dr. Richards and 4veral other physicians, who were anxious tb save her limb if possible; but it was not and it was amputated just above the knee at 10:30 this morning. |