Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-18
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
A Well Known French Tcamster
Run Over by His Two Wagons
Loaded with wOod-He Receives
IniurIes from. which He Dies

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Loaded wish wOod-He Receives
Injuries from which He Dies.
AT about half-past 10 o'clock Sunday
night Fred Hanson and Elias ~Boomhower,
two well known residents Of this county,
both residing near Pine Station on the Eu-
reka and Palisade railroad, about 50 miles
from town, arrived here in a spring wagon,
having in their care the almost lifeless
body Of Eugene Shipley, a Frenchman well
known in these parts, who had been run
over near the station mentioned by two
wagons loaded with wood, and whose lower
limbs were broken and crushed 30 badly
that they we're both twisted when the in
jured mans condition was looked after by
DR.. Thoma. Seeing his very weak and ex-
hausted condition, the doctor deemed IL
best that he be conveyed TO the County
Hospital for care and treatment. Stimu-
lants were there administered and the nee
essary medicines given the unfortunate
man, in order to relieve him, but he died at
hslf-past 2 O'Clock yesterday morning.
At 10 O'Clock yesterday morning Acting
Coroner Harmon summoned Il. j. Butler,
M. G.. C~svsnaugh, William Allen. Dan
Dean, l. ]. Dorr and James f. Mason as a
jury to inquire into the cause Of the death
Of Mr.. Shipley. The following testimony
gives all the particulars known as TO how
and under what circumstance the accident
occurred.
Fred Hanson, being duly sworn, said:
l reside at the J D ranch, in Garden VAL
ley, Eureka county; have known the de-
ceased for the last eight or nine years; his
name was Eugene Shipley; he was a native
of France, and was about 81 years OF age;
l saw him alive in this town last night
about hslf-past 10 o'clock; he was a team
ster. and was engaged in hauling his own
wood to the E. and p. railroad at Pine
Station; he had been hauling there about
three weeks; he WAS thus engaged yester-
day; / was informed yesterday at Alpha by
Malcolm Frazier that an accident had
occurred at The Chimneys; / then went
there as fast as the horse l was riding
could go, when l found the deceased about
20 feet behind the wagon, lying on his
belly, in the road, with his legs in the rut;
the wheels of the wagon had run over him;
l examined him and found both Of his
legs mashed; the lower of both legs were
broken; l asked him about the matter and
he said that the wagon had run over him;
there were two wagons; | lifted him onto;
the wag op and took him to Pine Station
and remained there until about half past 3
O'Clock, and then brought him here to
town, and we arrived here with him about
half-past 10 O'Clock last night; Mr.. Elias
Boomhower was with me at The Chin.
neys. where the accident occurred, and as
sisted me in the attendance on the de-
ceased, and came TO own with me last
night with the deceased; the wood that the
deceased had been hauling was his own
wood; he had been hauling it to be deliv-
cred TO the E. and P. Railroad Company,
but the company had not yet received it;
the wood is at Pine Station, and l think
there are about $50 or 300 cords of the
same; the place from whence he hauled the
wood is about four miles northeast Of Pine
Station, and l suppose there is still some
wood ON the ground from where he had
been hauling; he told me some time ago
that he had q daughter about 20 years old,
but I have forgotten where he said she
lives; deceased was a widower; l think,
however, that he said his daughter was in
France.
County Physician Thoma and r. Boom
hover also testified, but the foregoing en-
bodies about all the testimony OF interest
given. The jury, after inspecting the
body, found that :" the deceased was named
Eugene Shipley; aged about So years.: that
he came to Ills death on the 18th day of
May, 1886, in this county, from the effects
of being run over by the wheels OF two
loaded wagons, near Pine Station, on the
10th day of May, 1885,"
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