Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-03-03
Fatal RAILsoAD ACCIDENT.

FATAL RAILRoAD ACCIDENT,
As the 8 o'clock train for Carson
yesterday morning was passing over
the Crown Point bridge, 4 couple OF
boys who were on the bridge ran Of
from the South end, and one escaped
all right but the other, being confused
or mi.judging the space required for a
train Of cars to pass, stood close to q
bulkhead at the end OF the bridge.
The fiat ears passed him. but the ca
bose, at the rear end Of the train.
being wider, caught him and rolled
him around In the few inches space
between It and the bulkhead, injurlng
him to such an extent that he died
almost Immediately, his breast and
shoulders being completely crushed.
His name was William A. Cook. and
his parents reside In Crown Point
Raylne. Such a sad accident Is most
deeply to be regretted, yet the railroad
company cannot be considered at all
to blame in the matter, for they have
been continually, from frat TO last,
warning parents to keep their children
away from the track, and at the sta
ton In this town to keep = special
Waterman for that purpose. Let this
lamentable calamity be a warning to
children aud everybody else In the fu-
ture. Il Is a very easy matter to keep
at u safe distance from passing trains.
Coroner Holmes held an inquest In the
matter yesterday afternoon, which We
give below:
Z. Mclaughlin, sworn: I am day
Waterman ut the Crown Point wood
and coal yard, at the south end Of the
Crown Point trestle work l was there
OH watch this morning at s o'clock,
when the train came down from Vir-
ginia before It came down TO the yard
| noticed two boys come on the plat
form, a boy named Cook and another
named Kennedy the Kennedy boy
stood west Of the track and the Cook
boy east the Cook boy stood up close
to n bulkhead on the east side Of the
track, thinking that the train could
pass him ; the engine-tender and be-
lieve one or two fat cars passed him
without touching him the caboose
caught him on his jacket by the breast
and whipped him out OF my sight at
the time l walked to the spot rs fast
rs | could to see what had become Of
him, aud 10 or II feet from where l
first saw him I found him dead ; 1t did
no: take more than n minute for IL all
to transpirc after the train had passed
about so yards It stopped and the con-
ductor and engineer came back ; the
bell did not ring and the whistle did
not blow before the accident ; one man
In a hundred would not consider him
self safe In that position ; the sign
board to blow the whistle Is 100 yards
below this point ; deceased would not
have had time to get out Of the way
If the bell had rung l think he would
have had time to get out Of the way
the boy would probably have remained
there, as he considered himself safe
there was wood piled behind the bulk
head.
Joseph Kennedy, sworn : lam eleven
years of age !; we saw the cars coming
and we were both on one side Of the
track ; the deceased ran across the
track to the Crown Point side when
the train came along, and he thought
the cars would pass him (; l did not
speak to him again before the cars
passed by ; the next time | saw him he
was 10 or l2 feet from there, where he
had been thrown, with his head on
some rocks; he was just drawing his
last breath when I got to him ; | got to
him first and Mr.. Mclaughlin next.
Mrs. Elisa Cook, sworn : | I'M the
mother of deceased; he was Is years
of age on the 18th OF last January ; he
was born at Forest Hill, Placer county,
California;. His name was William
Alexander Cook.
THE VERDICT.
We, the jury summoned by Mr..
Holmes, Coroner Of Storey county, TO
appear before him on the I'd day Of
March, 1873, at the town Of Gold Hill,
to inquire into the cause Of the death
Of William Alexander Cook, being first
duly sworn on oath, do find that his
true name was William Alexander
Cook ; that he vas born In Forest Hill,
Placer county, California, and was -
years of age, and came to his death In
the town Of Gold Hill, on the I'd day
of March, 1873, by being caught acci-
dentally between q caboose car and a
bulkhead on the Virginia and Truekee
Railroad.
Signed : Peter Frost, w. V. Roberts,
J. d. Dempsey, John Leonard, Alex
snder Amend, w. II. Jackson, Louis
Turco, Thomas Jones.
lThe Coroner desires us to say that
he censures the person or persons who
removed the wood inside the bulkhead
before he had time to hold the inquest.
-REP.