The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-03
CRUELTY CRUSHED.
The Sad Fate of Two Men in
the Pacific Yards Last
Night.
Joseph Hyatt, the Builder
and D. Stanton, a Car
penter, the Victims.
Hyatt Lost his Left Leg and Stan
ton. who was Horribly Mu-
tilated, his Life.

One of those unfortunate and terrible
accidents which are inseparabie from the
operation of railroad, and tor which nc
enc can he blamed. by which one man lost
his life and another his leg, occurred IN
che Missouri Pacific yards at about half
past o'clock last night
Joseph Hyatt, the contractor and bull.
der, who has shop on Second street. and
resides in the extreme eastern
portion of the city, &C.
oempanied BY hie eleven year old son.
Charlie, and one of his carpenters, David
Stanton, were walking along the new pas
senger track of the Missouri Pacific, on
their way to Hyatl's house, Stanton board.
Ing with his employer. When at Q point
about TWO hundred yards east OF the train
dispatcher's Office it being very dark and
Aisty, the unfortunate men. who were
walking abreast on the track, had no init
aati0n that train was bearing down upon
them until they heard the shrill
cry of the boy Charlie, who
wss walking few feet in their rear. The
boy had jumped clear of the track, bu,
the two men were struck simultaneously
and went down under the freight car.
Hyatt had the presence of mind to grab
ing escaped death. Stanton went under
the wheels, and both legs between the thigh
and knee were cut of, as was his left arm
above the elbow His left ear was also torn
out by the roots, and he suffered internal in
juries. His body was then rolled off on The
north side of the track.
Hyatt chung to the axle of the truck un-
til his left Leg was caught and run over by
the truck wheels, when he too was thrown
over ON the north side of the track, sus-
tanning additional injuries on the left side
The wild screams of the boy first at
tracsed the attention of the engineer of the
switch engine which was pushing the cars,
one OF which ran over the man, and then
that peculiar or ting tIemor Of the cars
was detected which denotes that flesh
and bones were being crushed was felt. The
engineer, Mr.. Blake, reversed his engine at
once, bringing the cars TO a stsndstill be
fire running farther than the length of a
car, and the trainmen hurried to the sue
cor of the injured men, both of whom were
lying in the mud some feet from the track
but some thirty feet apart.
Hyatt. whose house was only about a
block distant, was carried to his home, and
Stanton, whom it was evident at a glance
was doomed to die: was carried to the hos
pital.
Stanton laid in great agony until half
past ii, when death came to his relief
A little before IL O'Clock q BAzoO re-
porter called on Mr.. Hyatt, at his house,
and found him resting, comparatively
speaking, easy. Mrs. Hyatt raised the
sheet with which he was covered, revealing
Khastly wound, just such an one as the
car wheel only can inf1ict, in the right leg,
between the knee and ankle. The doctor,
in making his examination of the wound,
had already taken out q handful of splin-
tered homes. The injured man was expect
ing another visit from the doctor and
nistaking the reporter for the doctor, be-
gan 10 beg that his leg should not be cut
of. When informed of the reporters mis-
sion he gave the particulars of the accident
- given above. He said that be and
going home to supper. each carrying some
marketing.
Hyatt has lived here about eleven years.
and has wife and five children. Stanton
came here little over q year ago from
Brownsville, but was originally from Farm
land, Ind, where he has q wife and
four children. He was about forty
years of age. His family were ad-
vised by telegraph last night of his death.
As the reporter was leaving Hyatt's
house, he met DR.. Allen, the hospital sur
geon, Superintendent Wesson, and couple
of attendants, the object of their Gail being
TO amputate Hyatts crushed leg.
.Indulgent parents who allow their
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