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The Electric Street Railway Has Had

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
June
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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its Hrsi s.'i'ious accident. It aappened on Saturday evenlng, at aboui 11 o'clock, on the Packard at. Une. 8upt. Fall had been om tc the end oí the lino, and liad returned as far as iii.' Hanover switch, wnere it is customary to leave tfae trailer upan one track and then back p and couple t on Ivhind instoad of running it anead ui the motor througn town. He had lelt the trailer and had started to back up, when ie waa noticed that the car was preceptlbly raleed up on one sido and badly jarrod. The brakes were at om-o applled, and Mr. Fall went to see what was the matter. He lomid the body of a man, who provod to be Frank D. Morse, of Gèdd's ave. lylng ander the car, wlth both arma and Bhonlders broken, and liis cheat and riba apon one slde craahed in, iK'inir instantly killed, never utteriiiLr a iiKian after belng injnrod. The body was at once removed to O. M. Martin's tindortaking rooms. No one saw tin1 young man get off, thoush thore were a nnmbor of people on the car. It was snppoeed that ne jumped off the car and made an attempt to gel mi agaiii when it backed up. A conner'e lnquest was held Sunday, and i verdlcl rendered to the effect that the deceased came to lus death by ac eidi-iit and in a manner for wiiich the Street rallway were not to blame. We onderstand, however, that the C(ini]iany has pald all expenses of the funeral and for burlal. Morse u.-is an nnniarried man. 25 yeara old, the sim of Jerome Morse, wlio livos on Ceililcs ave., v. here the deceased made it his home.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier