The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-13

", u. Camp Crushed by the Cars IN tho
TeSas a Pacific Yards IN Enst
DaiIas-Iiis Terrible kuf.
fering ana Death,

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switch running over HIN inlllellng Injuries
which eliminated In his death vt five o'clock
yos,ordoy manning
'',',''y -, ",'''"e' a., I
iho h,Rh' WI" very uNrA una no VI" on
bis way home accompanied by Mr.. Emmoyi
"A grocer who accompanied him 10 carry "A
ann II solmon cor him which bo had am
So. " 49,. " ,r, ~" ,.' ~ ''s F''-
ohhsed ~ lho s'olo' lho ueoeuseu hhd peeh
drinking and bis companion led the way for
him. On reaching the rallroad cross.
ia iii. No., .a 40, a..
"H' W"',o '"Oy "''o WV oh wv
track Mr. Enmofy discovered moving cur,
which was close on 10 them, and ho called 10
,ho doco.s.d lint too lato for tho cor st,,ol,
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n,m hno w ",i uoTaS 'mo wnueis passing
oyer WV lu't s"ou,1u,l wv urlli nhu hHhu ana
snu ,pwVL P"r' ., Tvs ,u's ~ p"u ioot' crush
ihR Vho p3nus "''u u"r'ulIy mG'SllhB tho
i nvsh % 'hoso P"'S' ii's Srle'' Il am
hll'eu' Wefo ucurFrohulhB, ma
no suffered great agony ., li9
w"S s"nu ~ i n no''S he"r W "hu Ie1le"l au
sun , ,,i III nn"'a NV itVcNo soon
hlI'Ncu ulu ulu Nv WY uou'u lor INC uhior-
luhato n,hll, yoI tho most tnh' lhey coula DO
was 70 hloNi"!9 Us lnuch Us possible MS severe
SuuoIlhSs' ~ nhBorou unul ABOUT hVe
O'Clock yesterday morning, when no was re-
leased from MS terrible torture by death
JustG feak empAilheIled me following
Jury OF inquest Dc a. carter W. f. Mey-
ers, H. b. coleman, Aoses Woolsey,, Is. A.
Ramsey, james Green, and the following tes'
umony WIS hebru o,
D. NJ Emnory, the llrst witness sworn, tcs-
tilied Ihat Thursday night about nine
o'clock, deceased came TO my store on Swiss
avenue, ana pought can OF ,mackercl' !
opened II Tor nm ana no spilled some Of the
brine out oil inc can, whon he said that he
could not get nome with IL ana asked me 10
go WIN nm ana carry inc can. We started
and got on the w" OF the Texas " Pacilic
railroad, after walking on the
road across the tra9k OF the
Swiss Street railway. l stepped OF the
Texas " racine railroad track, and deceased
continued walking up the track. We were
talking ut the time, | had not gone moro
than ten steps after leaving the railroad track
until l heard the cars backing up In the di'
rection deceased and l were going. being
at that time short distance from the
track, l looked back and saw the cars close
TO Camp, and sad something to him; don't
remember what 1t was; | was SO much
alarmed. The cars struck him near the
shoulder and threw hun forward on the track
across the rails, and two wheels of n car
passed over his lelt'shoulder, lctt-leg and
left-arm. The, deceased then rolled Off the
track and down the embankment |
don't know whether the bell
was ringing or not. Deceased
was drinking ana too drunk TO carry the
mackeral home without spillng the brine.
don't know whother.he was staggering or not.
He said. "Get me out of the mud;' and,
"Oh, my poor mother. There were about
twelve cars in the train. There was no light
on the.car that struck deceased; it was n
box-bar that struck him.
Il. p. Caple, the second witness testified
Deceased wife'S daughter came to my house
and said that deceased had been run over by
the cars; went over to the house and ex-
amined him, and found his leg broken be-
tween the knee and the foot, and his foot
was mashed, as well as his left shoulder,
while his whole back was
badly bruised. He died about five o'clock
this morning. He was conscious nearly all
the time and made no statement as to how
the accident occurred.
j. Gfrice, the third witness sworn testified:
81 am tho nightwatchman on the II. Il Z;
we were backing twelve cars into the "Y''
about nine o'clock; we stopped about four
car lengths from the crossing on Swiss street: