WALKED TO DEATH
SHEFFIELD CHILDREN's TERRIBLE FATE
The Sheffield Daily Telegraph reported the following case in the summer of 1915
Three happy Sheffield youngsters, each four years old - two of them engrossed with the care of their deaf and dumb companion - ran blithely across the road, hand in hand, at dusk last evening to suddenly find themselves in the course of a city-bound tramcar at the corner of Gower street and Ellesmere Road. Before the children had been seen by the driver the car had caught them, and it was not brought to standstill until it had advanced a further thirty or forty yards. One of the terrified trio was knocked clear of the car but the fate of her little companions could only be a matter of conjecture until the car could be lifted from the track. A crowd quickly collected and by a united effort the heavy car was lifted sufficiently to permit both of the children to be extracted. The terribly crushed body of one was taken into a neighbouring shop, and another less seriously injured, also received attention locally, and the sufferers were then conveyed to the Sheffield Infirmary and the Royal Hospital
At the latter institution it was found that one of the victims - Doris Trotter of 43 Bressingham Road - had already succumbed to terrible injuries. Marjorie Ibbotson of 23 Bressingham Road was found to be bruised all over the body, and suffering from concussion. The third, Winifred Hart (deaf and dumb) of 3 Grimethorpe Road - who had been knocked clear of the car by the impact - was taken to the Royal Hospital and was found to be less seriously injured though badly bruised and suffering from shock.
The driver of the car is Mr Harold Windle of 54 Holmton Road, Woodseats, Sheffield.
Notes
Births Jun 1911 TROTTER Doris M Sheffield Volume 9c Page 612
Deaths Sep 1915 TROTTER Doris M Age 4 Sheffield Volume9c Page72
Births Sep 1911 IBBOTSON Marjorie Spowart Sheffield Volume 9c Page 1171
Births Dec 1910 HART Winifred A Sheffield 9c 588
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