STRUCK BY A TRAM-CAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2490, 17 June 1915, Page 6

STRUCK BY A TRAM-CAR

ON WILLIS STREET LINE MITCHELLTOWN RESIDENT KILLED A fatal tram accident occurred- in Upper Willis Street shortly before 6 0 clock last evening, the victim being Jims Lohman, an elderly married man resident of 65 Holloway Eoad, Mitchelltown. Until recently Lot'tman had been in the employ of the Union Steamsnip Company at one of the company's stores on the wharf, and was well known oh the waterfront and by the residents . Street rnd Mitchelltown. He was »een walking up the footpath in Willis otreet shortly before the accident, and was apparently making for his home. lin« ■ y ■ ,- v ra]l 011 *° tra nine is not known, but it is presumed erossiim°+ W i!° lllm tllat he was 1 "ossing to board an Aro Street car at \Villk ol 'i\ Cl ' Y here . ic branches off from Swt CCt ' A bound for Aro faring the spot at the down a "L a car was coming latter as i?° a j to notice the Street A h,"? V move *° cross t!ie shouted f\ stan^ e r seeing liis peril wamil J?° ld t on! , Ho ld °nl : ' but the struck bv tho R IOO 'ate. Loftman was S f Brooklyn car, and thrown 5e moif, f l T C °,?? mst tho kerbstone, face and kil j j" 1 '"/ 168 about the race and head, and death must ha™ been instantaneous. The fatilifv ™ curred just above Abel Smith Street* th ° aC ° id<! " t tiie bodj into the grounds of Nurse Lucas s Hospital, and when Dr. Ander-ex-?incT V l,i 8 Cm ' k '? nl - V Pounce We nV 3 j Subsequently the police arrn ed and the body was removed to tho Morgue, where an inquest will be held. £, Ca l-1 !°k l, trU< * debased was left Brooklyn for the City 14 T™ in charge of Motorman Chelan and Conductor Scott, and at- the spot where the deceased was el" ii would just be gathering speed after the stop at the end of the n near the Aro Street comer.