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ONDER A CAR.Clarence Zink Has a NarrowtEscape From Death.MOTORMAN ROT TO BLAKE.While Scuffling With a Flay mate He Fell in. Front of a Moving Oar-Hlf Miraculous Escape.What came very near being1 a fatal street car accident occurred on East Cherry street this afternoon.Several children were playing near the tracks on the Cherry street hill, near the German Catholic church, about one o’clock, and evidently did not notice the approaching car, which was in charge of Motorman Henry Lamb. Two of the boys got into a scuffle just before the car reaehed them, and onej[of them, Clarence Zink, fell across the track. The car was necessarily running slowly up the hill, and this alone saved the boy’s life, for had the car been running at the usual speed it could not have been stopped, j As it was, the pilot Aboard passed over the little fellow before the motorman could stop the car and the boy’s head was across the rail within a few inches of the wheel.He was tenderly picked up and carried to the home of hia parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zink, at 104 $Torth Hill street, and Dr. Hattery summoned who found, on examination, that the boy had Buffered a compound fracture of the thigh, one of the broken bones protruding through the flesh, and that his head was also badly injured by contact with the pilot board.The lad iB eight years old and will probably recover.
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Massillon Item
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 05, 1898
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