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Show GIIOUND IMS OFF. The Shocking Fate of a Deaf and Dnnib Eoj Who Wandered onto a Oar Track. DYING AT THE HOSPITAL. Afpen Thompson bits Both Limbs Torn Dlrom His Body by Rapid Transit Whosls. At 10 "0 o'clock this morning Aspen j Thompson was run down by a car on ' tli Uanid Transit company's line and now lies dying at tit. Mary's hospital. The accident was one of thfl ; most apalling that has occurred i to interrupt the operation of i a street car wheel. Tho victim was go-! go-! ing home in company with hi father ! when the car came hissing over its iron trad and how the little wayfarer failed 1. Make warning from the clattering gong l and roar of wheels is explnined by j the f 11 1 that he is deaf. The father ', was loo lato to wrest him from hia aw-I aw-I ful Into. Crushed and mangled with I hoth limbs practically groutid from his liltie body that was almost disemboweled' disembow-eled' it was fortunate for him that unconciousness un-conciousness camo to his relief. The track was strewn with mangled llesh and wet with blood that poured from the ragged wounds. The spectators were horror stricken, while the father, who had been helpless in the hour of his boys peri!, was almost wild with grief. It required some moments mo-ments to procure a conveyance, and in the meantime the returning senses were, ushering tha youth into an ordeal of urrible and almost Indescribable agony. It then transpired that added to his other infirmities was that of total dumbness. A conveyance having reached the poena, the bleeding boy was removed to St. Mary's, to which institution Dr. l'inkertoti had been summoned. There was only the slenderest hope of saving the fast fading lifo although tho sitr-peou sitr-peou sot about to do all within his power. Uuth limbs had to be arapu-tiled. arapu-tiled. Coiiducior Nicholls and Motorman I.o.-kctt were in charge of tho car at the time of the accident. There was scarcely a possibility at 3 o'clock thiH afternoon of the little fellow's fel-low's living until night. |