American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-08
AWFUL DEATH OF
Professor UadsOn, OF ObeTIin, o

AWFUL DEATH OF
Professor uudsOn, OF Oberiin, Ohio.
The Cleveland Review. of Saturday
Morning. -ays:
We learn from Mr.. Charles CAlligau, Of
the G. & T. r. r. Co.. who was pas'en.
gsr, that the train arriving here at 9:55
lost night, when near Olmstead. ran over
= man, cutting of and dis6guring his
head, and muljlatin the body. The fire.
msn who was looking out Of the cab win;
dow. saw q man lying across the track and
Immediately the engine was reversed, and
the brakes put down. but The cars were so
near that this did not avail. The face was
so disfgured that it was impossible to as.
certrin the features. We are assured,
from conversation with assistant Super.
ntendent Simpkins, of the @. q 7, that
the body is that Of Prof 7. B. Hudson. OF
Oberlin, and one Of the editors Of the Ohio
Farmer The Professor left the city yes.
terday evening, at 81 o'clock, and while
at the depot was talking with Mr.. Sinp-
kius Of the best way to get to Strougsville
DO. lie was J., ing, when first discover
ed, across the track, his coat torn, and he
waved his hand, but as we said before. the
train was too near to be stopped. Mr.. s.
thinks he must have endesvored to get on
the G. &. G. train, and fell. and been drag
ged, his coat torn off aud be disabled.
The Cleveland Herald, Of Saturday af-
ternoon, says:
The supposition now is, that Prof H.
got on the mail train from Columbus, at
Columbia, to return TO Barea; that at Olm-
steAd-a station between Columbia and
Berea-aftcr the cars had started. he, per.
baps having fell into doze, woke up con-
fused, and sup posing the cars had just
started from the Berea station where he
designed to stop. attempted to jump otf
the cars and was caught and injured so as
} to be helpless on the track Conductor
Chapman, of this train says that Prof. H.
did get on the train at Columbia, and told
| him that he wanted to get off at Berea, to
. which Chapman assented, saying that The
: cars would stop there. Twice Prof. II.
, remarked to Chapman that he should gel
off at Berea. Prot. H. was in the front
, end of the passenger car. there being one
, otl er car behind 1t. After leaving Ohm.
stead staten. when Chapman went thro'
, the cars he noticed the seat before occupi
} ed BY Prof II. was vloant, but that fact
} Of course, made no particular impression
upon him.
Thus lying helpless upon the track, the
poor man was sufficiently conscious tC
{ know that tho Toledo train was coming
down upon him, yet he was unable to draG
{ his crushed bones off the rail. He could bu
t raise his hand, and in an instsnt was man
If gled even beyond recognition.
The place where the body of Mr.. Hud
son was found is about City to eighty rod
S this side of Olmstead Station, on the join
l. track Of the c., G. & c., and the G. q. I
e railroads. His foot prints were found Oh
the earth making short steps at first. an
. then long strides, as if rrnniug willis
D boiling on to the cars, and ended at pill
d Of iron beyond which his body was found
IS 1t is supposed that his foot struck the pill
of iron, by which means his hold on th
ears was loosed. when he fell under th
'es wheels. The theory is strengthened b
d the fact that his shawl, carpet sack, an
u pieces Of clothing were found scattered {
~ ~ long the track between the pile Of iron an
10 the body.
. From the fact Of the foot prints begiI
10 70 ming with short steps and ending with Ion
" ~ strides. it would seem that Mr.. Hudsc
,e left the cars at Olmstead for some purpo'
u u aud attempted to get on again when Il
" % train was under way. Had he jumped OIL
a a the long s,ride would have come first.
- How horribly Prof. H. was mangled q
'o pears from description Of th' remains
given before Coroner Hartmann:
- The body was horribly mutilated. bell
- turned around itself in the region Of I
en- lower ribs, so that the back and the a I'd
'or men appeart in one line and the arms h
he changed their places; the right one bei
p on the left side. No arm was missing.
both of them we're in their upper pal
entirely shattered and hung on the boz
rn, merely by small piece Of skin. All
"a upper part Of the chest, the throat and ia
Of were gone, the spine broken iuto sevel
70. parts and both legs below the knee pEus
nd cd to ATOMS. The upper part of the SIX
no horribly fractured and cut, portion of t
h. spine, the torepart Of the tongue. the II
te. ynx and portion Of the brain were pic
va ed up separately. t.-