The daily gazette., 1877-08-22
FIRST EDITION!
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
TWO MEN TERRIBLE MANGLED-AN
HEROIC EFFORT COSTS A FLAG
MAN HIS LIFE, '''i" -f 77Gl1

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TWO MEN TERRIBLE MANGLED-AN
HEROIC EFFORT COSTS A FLAG
MAN HIS LIFE. ''' " "-f' H -17s1l
One of the most terrible tragedies that
ever occurred in Philadelphia ian aoS
count of which was given by telagranb
in yesterdays GAzETTE) happened / les.
Gay morning. at the railroad crossing at
ninth and Wallace, where the tracks of
the dermantown andN orristown di vision
OF the Reading Railroad enter the passen-
ger depot. About quarter before 0 o.
CLOCK there was a train being made up.
and the engineer was backing the cars
into the depot, when Henry Stout, the
hagman at Ninth and Wallace streets.
saw man, apparently in All intoxicated
condition, standing between the rails on
the track the cars were on, and to all an
pearances unconscious of the fact that
the cars were bearing down upon him.
Seeing the peril of the man. and that
the engineer could not see him, Stout
Shouted and motioned to him to get ont
OF the way. The man paid no heed, and
then. ensued scene that curdled the
blood OF every one who beheld IL. Stout.
seeing that no heed was paid to his call
sprang to the mans assistance with a
heroic disregard of danger that was
worthy of the highest praise. Just be-
lore the cars reached the stranger Stout
had seized him and strove to pull him
away from the track But instead of al
lowing him to accomplish his purpose,
the bystanders were Mortified to see the
stranger seize Stout In a fierce grapple.
For second or two the men swayed
backward and forward, and then [he
stranger, being the most powerful man
OF the two, dragged the fiagman to the
ground and fell himself just az the cars
reached them. f or an instant there was
sickening sound of crushing bones, and
then the multilated bodies of the two
victims were seen covered with their
blood. The f1agman had both legs cut
off and the stranger had one arm sever
ed from the body, and the right leg
crushed almost its entire length, anu
was badly cut about the head. When the
miserable man first grappled with the
fagman the spectators called to Stout to
let go of him, but the grip of the man
was too deadly. AS soon as the cars
were stopped the two mutilated bodies
were taken up, and being placed as care
fully as possible in express wagons of the
Reading Express company, were carried
to the Pennsylvania Hospital. lBoth men
We're unable to give any particulars of
their families.
The tagman, whose name is Henry
Stout, lived at No. 1896 Manor street.
Stout was very reliable, worthy man,
and had been in the employ of the Read
ing Railroad Company for some time.
That he was brave and generous man
was the cause of his death. From pawn
ticket found on the person of the stran-
ger his name is supposed to be r.
Link,
The two men. on being taken to the
Pennsylvania Hospital, received every
ribly mangled that there was found to
be no posi- bility of recovery In either
case. Stout, the courageous flagman,
breathed his last at 25 minutes after 10
o'clock, and at IL o'clock the man Link
expired. Stout was only twenty-seven
years of age. Link, it is understood, re-
sided in Bucks county.