Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1908 — MRS. GEORGE SHARP ACCIDENTALLY KILLED [ARTICLE]

MRS. GEORGE SHARP ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

Wife of Former Rensselaer Painter Killed by Street Car at Indianapolis Sunday. *

Mrs. George W. Sharp/ of Indianapolis, wife of the painter and paper hanger of that name who for several years lived in Rensselaer. died Sunday night at an Indianapolis hospital as the result of injuries sustained earlier in the day, as described in the article below, which appeared in the Indianapolis Star: In an effort to save her 6 year old son from death under the wheels of a street car, Mrs. Hattie Sharp, 22 North Denny street, received injuries at 5:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon at Denny and Washington streets from which she died at 9:25 o’clock last night at the City Hospital. George Sharp, Jr., whose life the mother tried, to save, sustained injuries that may cause his death. Harold Sharp, 8 years old, who was following close behind, was not seriously hurt According to Mrs. Charles Rishllng, of Rensselaer, Ind., who was a witness of the accident, Mrs. Sharp and her two children stepped from an east-bound Irvington car, and George ran behind the car and on to the north tracks. Mrs. Sharp heard the west-bound car coming and the warning shouted by Conductor Tom hlnnej of the car she had just stepped from. Heedless of her own danger, she attempted to reach the boy and drag him from the track, when the car from the east struck her. The two boys were thrown from the track and the mother wae knocked down directly in front of the fender several feet from the oar. Before Motorman Otto Clark could bring bis car to a stop the woman had been struck again and rolled beneath the front trucks. Mrs. Sharp was badly cut on the

right side of her face and head and both her ankles were broken. The call for the City Dispensary ambulance was sent in about 6:35 o’clock, and Driver Taylor Jackson forced the two ambulance horses to the scene of the accident, -a distance of about three miles, in less than fifteen minutes. Bicyclemen Schlangen and Raddemacher accompanied the ambulance. ' When Dr. Duncan, ambulance sur-» geon, arrived, Mra Sharp had been carried into the office of Dr. J. W. Webb. The two children received first aid in the. office of Dr. A: i Hollingsworth. The mother and son I Harold were removed to the City, Hospital by Dr. Duncan, and George, Jr., was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital in Undertaker A M. Ragsdale ' & Co.'s ambulance. I Motorman Clark’s nerves were unI strung by the accident, and he was i not able to run his car into the city. 'A man was called from one of the i street car barns to take his controller. George W. Sharp, husband of Mrs. Hattie Sharp, who was killed in tryj Ing to save her little son from the i wheels of an Irvington car at East Washington and Denny strees yes- , terday afternoon, is somewheie in . the state of Tennessee, and last night lit was not possible to find him to tell him of his wife’s death. He is an expert sign painter employed by the Thomas F. Cusack Company. A short time ago he left bis home for a six months’ trip through the South, where the company has considerable work to be done. A member of the firm which employs Mr.

Sharp said last night he would be able to locate the woman’s husband and would get word to him of the accident as quickly as possible. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp were married about ten years ago at Peru, and made their home here for some time. They have resided in Indianapolis tdr about three or four years. Mr. and MFs. Chas. Rishling went to Indfl&apolis Sunday afternoon to spend this week visiting Mrs. Sharp and attend the fair. Mrs. Sharp was to meet them at the train and the accident occurred as all were making a" street’'car transfer. - • Ndthfcg is kiiowh here about the funeral plank.