The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-05
ACCIDENT Or SUICIDE?
A Man Literally Cut to Pieces by a
Freight Train.

Shortly after o'clock yesterda!
morning as freight train on thu
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe wa
within short distance of the Denve
and Bio Grande shops, the Ereman dis
covered man on the track ahead in {
| pros rate position, with his head resting
on one of the rails. At first it wal
thought that he was dead, and the en-
gineer blew the whistle several time:
and reversed the engine. At the sound
of the whistle the man raised partly uI
and looked steadily for moment al
the approaching rain, then he resumed
his former position.
The train was an unusually heavy
one, and was under too much Roadway
to be stopped within so short distance,
and despite the efforts of the engineer
and fireman, hove steadily onward and
crushed the man lying SO coolly on the
rail apparently couriing death. Nearly
the entire train passed over the body
and when the wheels had ceased to re-
Volve the train hands set to work to ex-
tricate the mangled body.
For nearly quarter of mile pieces
OF flesh and clothing were picked up
and placed in a gunrysack for more
convenient removal. The patrol wagon
was summoned and arrived in very
short time. The body and pieces OF
flesh and clothing were placed in it and
taken to Coroner Rogers undertaking.
establishment, on Champa streetI
where the clothing was stripped from
the body. The clothes were CT very
poor material and indicated that the
dead man had been a laborer. A search
means of Identification, and the papers
that were found were more or less cut
up by the fatal wheels of the train
Upon an envelope was written twice, in
French, Ny name is Baptiste Grut
Brver," aud underneath was the fol-
lowing bad ItalioD: Mon nom propre
Fryer Grut Baptiste saddresde ma
mereo rOvenceuenturin nerslie eropa
Elizab beth Baptiste," which, after con-
siderable difficulty was translated to
read: the address of NV mother,
Elizabeth Baptiste, is Aosta, Pre- violence
Ven turin, Italy, Europe" Ano ther
paper was translated after some trouble
and made TO read:
December %. 1sS7.-My proper
nam is Graf Baptiste Dryer, belonging
to Italy. l belong to Italy, the pro-
vince of Turin, department of Aoster,
at Douves. My address-Madame
Elizabeth Dryer, at Douves, depart
ment of Aoster, province of Turin,
Italy, Europe. This is my mothers
address"
Among other effects was found a
ticket on pawnshop. calling for a
big Elgln watch" upon which $11 had
been advanced. The timepiece was to
be redeemed in January.
The body as it lay on the cooling
board in the coroner's office presented
q horrible appearance. From the
upper lip to the crown OF the head there
was nothing but mutilated mass cf
flesh and bits of bones. The right arm
had been cut in two at point between
the elbow and shoulder, while both legs
below the KNEES as well as both feet,
were horribly mangled. There were
also several deep wounds in the chest
and stomach.
From what the engineer and fireman
have to say-ef the affair, it is I'M
doubtedly a case of suicide, and the
papers FUND on the body seemed to
indicate that the dead man had de-
sired identity, shonld anything hap
pen.
: Coroner Rogers will hold an inquest
as soon as the presence of necessary
witnesses can be secured.-Denvor
Nesss.