FRANK KELLY LOSES LIFE WHILE ANSWERING FALSE ALARM.

Engine No. 6 Strikes Unseen Hole and Driver Is Thrown Beneath the Wheels –Lives Short While.

Frank Kelly, driver of engine No. 6, was thrown from his engine and run over by it at the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and Holmes street at 7:30 o’clock last night and so injured that he died at 10:20 at St. Paul’s Sanitarium, where he had been taken.

The alarm, which however, proved to be a false one, came from First and Pennsylvania avenues. Driver Kelly took the Pennsylvania avenue route. Firemen say that he was nearing Holmes street the front wheels of the engine dropped into a ditch of the existence of which there was no signal in the way of a lamp or anything else. As the horse jerked the engine out of the ditch Kelly lost his seat and fell forward in front of the wheels, which passed over his shoulders and breasts, crushing his ribs in on his lungs.

In an unconscious condition, he was placed in an automobile and hurried to St. Paul’s Sanitarium. The physicians said from the first that there was no hope for him. He lingered almost three hours, but did not regain consciousness.

Frank Kelly was born in Mississippi and was 38 years of age. He came to Texas several years ago and resided some time in Kaufman. Four years ago he cane to Dallas and secured employment with A. A. Jackson & Co. He had been driver of engine No. 6 about two years. He was a bachelor and the firemen did not know whether he had any relatives in this part of the country.