The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-11-02
ROLLEDTO DEATH.
August Redemeyer and August
Demers Run Over by q
Train in This City
Last Night.
Demers, Alter an Arm and Log 10
Amputaied, Diss-Redemeyer
Sill Lives But Suffers
Intensely.

Intensely.
About eleven O'clock LAST night Q shoe.
mixer named August D-mers, - hO has besn
Working for A. Wuis,ock, on Washington
avenue, between Second and Third streets,
snd Augu.t K-i~mey-r, . cigar maxrr ~ho
has bern in the employ Of II. Lueki"s.
Near the Corner OF Main and kentucky
sireeis, met terrible fate. Dem~rs had
been drinking since lest Saturday noon and
was still ulder the j. d I-nce If iiquor
R-demeyer vAs sober. They left tas Il AZ
ri-on house To cross the track .buut halt
v.y between Oslo aud Usage streets. The
n, X. & +. train stood on the
middle tack. o. the south track the
switch engine vas moving eastward with
The usual c.,ch inf ront Of il. Noah
Storms, the Missouri Pacific yard master.
AID b. skems n who were standing On the
front platform II the COACH with their lam
terms in their hsnsi-, ssw these two mrn,
Drm-ss AID R-enryer, jump from the
train steps Of the NJ, X. X +. and start
scrces the track in iroat Ut the RAPIDLY sp-
p6o~chi"g c,,ch Oh which They stood, DE
usrs being ahead, X ,i~meyer close at his
ie~i-. Storms yelled al them ani rwunx
hi. lantern, To no feet. Deu,-rs stumbled
over the rail and f,l'; ke.i~mey~r .ti~mpi-
ed to pull him d the track when the train
struck sni ran over boil, 81 Ih~m, cutting
Den,rr-' sigh, leg clean I'd below ,he knee.
crushing his right arm in . ier-
rible manner, aud cutting several dr-p
gA-h~s on hrs foreh~sd and face. Re,ie-
fr"m the shoulder dosn, his lace Vas bad
" bruised, brsidrs Is dic''ng serious inter
MI il juri~-. The injured men were
picked up a, once aud borne on streich~r.
Z, police h-s!quarler-. At Lbs =. M Dr..
King and b yer ampuisied Rejemeyer'-
lief, arm jis, below the shoulder.
Rrs!eu.syer informed q BAzoo reporter !
this morning that he wS entirely uncon- !
srious from the time he received the injury !
until after his arm wa- Smpu,s'ei.
Al two o'clvck Dr.. King and E,ye-, as
sisted by jobs Tas'ch-r and -. +. Kr-
noodIe, ampuiste,i ID .mer-' right leg above 4
he knee aud his RICH. arm above tth~
elbow. He was . strong msn, but hi, /
suffering wss intense and he plead most
piIeously with the physici sns and by-isnd-
er- 10 kill him. He called r~p'st, dly for
. knife OF revolver or something To- kill l
himself with. Al 6 q. M. to-day Dem~r.
di-d.
A BAzpO reporter learned fro,n Mr.. Wit
II ok, for whom D.mers had worked, thrt |
dece ICED c.me To this city from Brosns-
vile on Sturdy. the l5i inst; worked
Tor witis;ock one ~e-s; lhd he ws-
good workm an; sbout forty years 81 ags
unmarried; came To Am.rics from Grr-
n .ny in lsaS; tina, ne had been drunk I
'ince he quit work isst Saturday noon;
that he w.- going to X ,nsi- City from thi.
place, though he had told the by. in some
d the ssioo's ia-, he Wa suin. - 1 .d's"
,p,iis; he had worked for Nose, Il Van
W. .ner, and twelve yesfs ago, while on
tramp. had worried lev days for Wit
took IN ,hi- city.
A BAzpo reporter c4il~l on Mr.. n
.u-kip,, for whom R.iem-ver had been
working. and Learned from him that August
se,i-mey-r. the u ,rei man, il thir,y-nine
ears Of age III 1t n. Wa. bIrn in Pru+si,
hat he came from Chic, ~, To Ssd,ii about
me mouth ~xn tina, he il q go ID workman;
lot given To di--ipa,ion tina, he ~s- not
trunk last night that he has 4 .cn living
n Phil .d-lphis. in ~hich city hi. recently
|eces-ed wire l,~s buried,
R-d-meyer w.. t.k.n, at IL o'clock ..
n To day. to the Pac'h: ho-pi,,I a, ws-h-
nyton, No., to be treated At the .xp~n.e ,
{ the company fot his injuries. IL j. b.
ieved he wi!! recover.
THE VERDICT
& the co-oner's Jury ~ to the death Of
lu: u-t ID mer-, which We rsn iered al 4
,'cInck this afternoon. wss "a folIows:
I'VE 6nd ihst August Drmer- came 20
ia death oy bring run over by a passenger
,osch ON the Missouri, p ,ri6c railroad, and
h.', though the employees of said ROAD did
III in their power TO prevent the accident,
Ie, the Try would .uxse-, to the city cum
IL If >~.i.ii~ and To the Mi-souri P,ciic
'sil~sy comp 'ny, that public safety de-
nand. that there should be three lsmps
erected snd kept burning 1T nighis On the
.on'h aide aud one on the north eide If
Gid railroad track between Oaio and O..ee
.ir~e,s."