Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-21
INSTANTLY KILLED.
LabOrer on the Short Line Sent to Eter.
nifty in q Twinkling.

Laborer on the Short Line Sent to Eter.
nifty in Twinkling.
A terrible accident occurred on the Short
Line road near Smelling avenue about 1:1s
o'clock yesterday afternoon, resulting in the
instant death of section hand named Harold
Johnson.
As the time named the deceased, in company
with several other men, was engaged in re
pairing section of track short distance be
You'd Smelling avenue. According to the mos
reliable account the Minneapolis accommoda-
ton train which left st. Paul at O'Clock
neared the point designated, and as the trair
approached the usual signal was given to war;
the men 10 get ont of the way. The warning
was obeyed by all the hands but Johnson, who
started for the left side of the track, the othe,
men gong on the right side.
When almost across the track, johnson
turned to join his companions, and before he
could make the other side he was struck by
the tender, the engine being reversed, an(
thrown to one side Of the track. He was
whirled into the air and reached the ground {
quivering mass of mortality. The shock was
sufficient to cause instant death.
The mans skull was horribly mangled anG
his left leg was broken.
The remains were put on down train ani
he was brought 10 st. Paul.
Coroner Davenport held an inquest at
o'clock last evening in the baggage room, a
! the foot of jackson street. N
The first witness was Henry Rawsdell, the
engineer, who testified that he first saw tn.
men when forty rods away. He observed al
but one go to the right side of the track. TIL.
man who started for the left side turned back
when the train was about forty feet away
| Witness gave the signal, but the engine STRUCK
him before the train could be stopped. Thu
| train was running tender forward.
| Nelson Dunn, the fireman on the engine
was sworn: Witness was oiling the machin-
cry; he heard the danger signal, and looking
| around, he saw man in the air. The acct
dent happened at 5:i5 o'clock.
Thos. Mullen, the section boss, testified
| that deceased had worked for him since the
| 18th inst
s. Oleeon testified that deceased was g
Swede, about 30 years old, and that he had
been in the country about three weeks. A
| witness named Peterson and Olaf Oleson ties.
titled to knowing the deceased. The remains
were recognized as those of man who had
boarded at the Minnesota house.
THE VERDICT.
The jury found as follows: That deceased
came to his death from injuries received by
being struck by engine No. 222, attached to 8
passenger train on the Short line of the Chi
cagO, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad company
and although no blame is attached to the EN-.
ployes, it is the opinion that greater safety
would ensure if the engines were not tender
foremost.
1t is due the company to say that the en-,
CINE in question is double ender, made ex-
pressly for running both ways, the multitude
of trains on the short Line from st. Paul to
Minneapolis making it lmpractlcable to turn
the engine each trip. 1t has a cowcatcher and
headlight upon the tender which, so far as
safety Is concerned, makes it entirely imna-
terial whether the tender or engine is fore
most