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May 26, 1908 THAT WAS A SHOCKING RIDE.
Taken by William Becker and His Wife on a Northeast Car.
William Becker and wife, 413 Prospect avenue, were suffering yesterday from a most unusual injury received Sunday night on an eastbound Northeast-Rockhill car. The accident occurred on one of the new cars, and in one of the long seats running parallel at the rear of the car. Just as the car rounded the curve into Maple avenue, Becker and his wife, from some source unseen by them, received such a terrific shock of electricity that they were thrown across the car to the opposite seats.
Becker was at work in the city market yesterday for C. L. Reeder, a fish merchant, but his right arm was practically useless and his right let was also in bad shape. He said his wife was shocked on the right side below the waist.
"I can't imagine where the shock came from," said Becker, "but I know that it was so strong that it almost blinded me for a moment. The conductor told me afterwards that his shoulder was almost dislocated when he grabbed me as I was thrown from the seat. I have heard of cars being charged with electricity on damp nights, and as it was very damp Sunday it may be that this car was in that state.Labels: city market, Maple avenue, Northeast, Prospect avenue, streetcar November 20, 1907 BOY "CAR HOPPER" HURT.
While running beside and east-bound Northeast car at 1441 Independence avenue yesterday afternoon, Samuel Friedman, a 10-year-old school boy, lost his footing and fell, sustaining a compound fracture of the right leg. With a companion the lad was hopping street cars. His home is at 1130 Independence avenue. Labels: children, Independence avenue, Northeast, streetcar October 5, 1907 THANKFUL FOR HER ESCAPE.
Devout Expression of Little Girl Struck by a Car.
"God was good to me that time," was the comment of a 5-year-old girl when she was taken from the fender of a rapidly moving Northeast car at Locust street and Independence avenue about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. And while a dozen grown-ups, who had witnessed her narrow escape from death, were yet struggling to recover their equanimiity, she calmly caught hold of the hand of her uncle, John Reed of Kansas City, Kas., and walked away.
The child had become separated from her uncle and, in attempting to catch up with him, tried to cross the car tracks in front of the car. Before the motorman, C. M. Johnson, could stop, the car struck the little one, who was caught by the fender. The car was brought to a quick halt and Johnson and the conductor, H. L. Moe, ran to the front, expecting to find her mangled remains beneath the wheels. Instead, she was seated on the fender, not greatly disturbed by the accident. She left the scene with her uncle before her name and address could be ascertained.Labels: children, Independence avenue, Kansas City Kas, Locust street, Northeast, streetcar September 13, 1907 VALUABLE DOGS POISONED.
Wholesale Destruction of Canines in Northeast Part of Town.
Poisoners have been killing dogs by the wholesale in the district centering about 500 Olive street the past two days. More than thirty canines, some of them valuable, have died from what appears to be arsenic poisoning. Within one block on Minnie street three dogs were found dead yesterday morning, one of them being an imported butt terrier belonging to Frank J. Lyngr, a policeman, living at 2116 Minnie.
Most of the animals killed were valueless street curs, but a few were dogs of pedigree and breeding. One Scotch collie valued at $125 was among the victims.Labels: animals, Northeast, Olive street, poison May 31, 1907 FORTY-TWO CASES INOCULATED.
Test Made Last Night to Develop Tuberculosis Forty-two cows selected from dairies in the northeast part of the city were inoculated at 8 o'clock last night with tuberculosis virus by City Milk Inspector Wright and L. Champlain, veterinarian of the city pure food inspectors, for the purpose of determining if any of the herd are afflicted with tuberculosis. The temperatures of the cows treated were taken at three different times yesterday, the last shortly before the tuberculosis virus was injected. It takes twenty-four hours for tuberculosis to develop in a cow, and the real results of the tests made last night will not be known until tonight. Labels: health, Northeast, pure food commission, veterinarians |
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