Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-02-04 | Page 3 | Loses Leg under a Trolley Car

r LOSES rOSS LEG ftC LEGA UNDER DR I A TROLLEY CAR R i Louis living t at No o G fi Wili Wil- Wil Villard i I lard court was knocked d down own by liv ear cur Xo No of the Poplar Grove Grovo line at nt atI ntH I H JM i t. t n clock o'clock last Jal ni night ht and aud when hEu he lie was wa pulled from Croll room 1 beneath tho trucks af- af I af-I tT tor the right front wheels had passed I over or him his right lc leg from front the down was missing It hail had been rut ut off nfl entirely and Hl d carried car car- rie ned ried several feet in the front truck fire Tue accident occurred at nt the tho corner of Sixth South aud and West streets under miller tho the glare of tho the street lamp Straus burg hind had started acro across s th time the street from the south Routh si side sido o to hoard board the time car ear I He lie eho chose e time tho car cal track because of or the time mud ann and while picking his way through tho time slush and water tuter failed to tu notice that the tIme car ar had bail started up again Motorman Mo- Mo torman George Thompson declares that the tho Jj light ht from the street lamp struck his mis vision at such uch an angle as all to make it impossible to see seo tho the man on tho the track The first he lie know knew of the accident Wl was tho the agonized scream of ef the victim and th the jar of tho ear car as tho the front trucks went t over oer Ie log leg An ambulance from tho tIme L. L D. D S S. S hospital hospital hos bog pital was as called and the injured maui man was hurried to that institution The car had traveled only about thirty thir thir- ty tT feet when it struck so that tho the speed was but nominal