The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-10
CRUSHED To DEATH.
switchman doe Price Is Caught Betwee,
two Cars In the Texas y Pacific Yard an,
killed

two Cars in the Texas n Pacific Yard and
Killed
Joe Price, switchman in the yard of the
Texas & Pacific road, vas killed yesterday
morning about II o'clock, by being caught
between two cars, in the lower yard at the
corner Of Lamar street and Pacific avenue.
Two cars were standing on separate tracks
near where they joined, and one was so
close that II would not permit the engine
TO pass, and securing stout piece of plank
he put one end ofit against the car that
was being pushed by the switch-engine
and the other end against the car on the
other track in order to push il
forward, when the plank slipped and he
was thrown around and caught between the
two cars which crushed him so badly that
he died within five minutes afterwards.
The cars caught him about the breast on
either side, and though the force of the
pressure was ever so great, the skin was
not broken. One of the rail.
road men who saw him says that when he
was pinned between the two cars he threw
up his hands and made noise which
sounded like an attempt to scream which
was suppressed, and rs tho cars separated
he fell. Several men ran To him and car
ried him into the Pacific house, where
he was placed upon bed,
but his head had hardly
touched the pillow before he expired. The
unfortunate man, who was about thirty
eight years old, had been connected with
the road for some time as Il switchman, and
was well thought of by those who knew
MN; lie leaves wife and three little
children to mourn him. lie re-
sided in East Dallas. About a
! a ha Nra al f,,t -
roads yard at Fort Worth and brought to
this city for treatment, and though his in
Jurles were OF II very serious nature, he raj
he'd and finally recovered. Soon after his
death his wife was made acquainted with
the iacts, ana she was almost distracted
with grief
Justice Edwards, acting coroner, sum
moned a jury, and an inquest was held over
the romans
CHARLIE ADLER,
the frst witness sworn, testified A little
after IL o'clock this morning was sitting
III front Of the Pacific hotel when saw an
engine and switching car on the
Pacific railroad, and Joe Price
the man who was killed, wa.
endeayoring to move car on the separate
track from that on which the engine was
| thought from theposition of Price that hs
wodld be killed there were cars between
me and deceased, but they did not prevent
n full view of the occurrence; did moi
know deceased he did not act like he was
drinking an attempt had been mad,
to couple two ears, but it was
failure the deceased then got piece o
plank and began pushing the Gu
when the engine on the other track backed
down and struck the end OF the planl
which struck him in the breast | heart
HaaAnNaI AZ. al l. -.
tall; the deceased signed 10 the engine L
advance; the plank or scantlin was about
six feet long.
". II. POWELL,
the second witness testified am stopping
IN Dallas, and am from Rocky Springs
mississippi; | was sitting in front of tn
Pacific house between 10 and IL o'cloCl
a. m. | saw the engine come down an,
switch oil on side track one ca
had large oil tank on it; dc
ceased put a piece OF scantling be
tween the two cars, but il slippe,
and the ears coming together caught him
MASKING him between them; don't thin
the scantling struck him at all. Did no
see deceased signal the engine to advance
and would not have seen it if he had; | al
farmer and have no connection with tn
railroad whatever; the engine and scantlin
were used to push the cars, because the mel
had failed there was not room for tn
: engine TO pass the car on the side track
the engine was on one track and the Gu
, on the other.
VERDICT.
The jury returned verdict that the de
ceased came to his death on the 9th day {
October 1889, upon the track of the Tsxa
Il Pacific railroad at or about II O'Clock d
M. by accident In trying to move or swito
; cars on the said road.