Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-02
THREE LIVES LOST.

James Kenney, a Brakeman, Killed at
 Tin Bridge Early Yesterday Morn
 ing and an Unknown Man Killed
 Near Grand Street in the Afternoon
 Another at NOrWaIk in the Even-
 ing.
 A horrible accident occurred at Mill river junction near the lin bridge in this city early yesterday morning which caused the life of Brakeman John Kenney, of 117 View street. Kenney was braking on train of fifteen freight cars which left the Union depot at 7:15 a. m. for Belle dock in charge of Engineer John Webber and Conductor L. B. Jenner. Engineer Webber ran his train out into the Hartford division tracks, beyond the bridge over Mill river, and began to back down towards Belle dock, when it was dis covered that the signal was down, indicating that train was on the track ahead, and he came to stop almost upon the so-called Tin bridge. few moments later the track was cleared. MT. Webber opened the throttle and the train moved ahead. John Kenney was on the top of the third car, in front of the caboose, with one knee upon the top of the car and the other foot on the little plat form where the dog upon the brake is placed. This is the position which brakemen take when braking in their perilous position on the top of dry freight cars. As the train started Engineer Webber looked around just in time to see Brakeman Kenney let off his brake and then slip and fall from the top of the car.
 The train was stopped soon as possible, but not before the train had run over thirty feet, and when they came to look for Ken ney's body they saw 8 horrible sight. Ken ney's feet were cut and crushed off from the legs and both his arms were cut off at the elbow. The dismembered trunk was found wedged in between the brake beams of the rear truck between the wheels, and so tight ly that nothing could extricate the body.
 Kenney was still alive. Hydraulic jacks were sent for and the car jacked up so as to allow Kenney's mangled body to be taken from where it was and placed on blanket near by, where he died few moments later. He leaves widow and six little children. He was one of the most reliable and trusted brakemen in the company's employ and used to be watchman at the Mill river junction. The funeral of MT. Kenney will take place from his late residence on View street this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 An unknown man, apparently German about B years of age and nearly six feet tall, poorly dressed and having a yellow nous tache, was struck and instantly killed in the railroad cut between Court and Grand streets directly back of Moffatt's stores about half past one o'clock yesterday afternoon. En- gineer Church, who was in charge of the train due here from Hartford at 1:24 D. m., saw the man standing on the track directly in front of the train as it rounded the curve in the cut and reversed his engine, but it was too late. When the man was picked mp both legs and one arm were broken, and there was large hole in his forehead where the pilot of the engine had struck him. After Medical Ex- aminer White had examined the remains they were taken to the morgue, and up to a late hour last evening had not been identi- fled. In his pockets were found fifteen cents and button hook, but nothing whereby he could be identified. The man was so shocked and unnerved when he discovered the locomotive close upon him that he stood still like a statue apparently unable to stir a limb or move muscle. His face was blanched to a deathly paleness, and too late he sought to avert his dreadful fate.