Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-05
Death Of Engineer Henry T. cioughly.

VIM. Cloughly received a telegram
Sunday announcing the death Of his
brother Henry Cloughly, Saturday,
while in performance Of his duty at the
throttle of an engine on the Union Pa
ciic Railway. An account of the fatal
accident appeared in the Laramie Daily
Boomerang, from which we make the
following extract:
"The first section Of freight train No.
~, which left here 80 o'clock Sat-
urday afternoon, met with a frightful
accident near Rock Creek, the engi-
neer, Henry Cloughly, losing his life,
About mile west of Rock Creek is a
gully. This gully is five feet deep and
Is upon q curve, although from there
to the station the track is straight and
1t Is said that the bridge can be seen
from the latter place. When this train
reached the bridge Saturday it had been
burned out. Neither engineer nor fire.
man saw their danger. III Cloughly
saw any smoke at all he probably
thought 1t was q smoking tie, and that
was what the burning culvert would
have the appearance of being. The
engine cleared the gully but left the
track on the other side and after going
a distance Of fifty feet tipped over al
most on its back. Five empty coal
cars piled into the gully and taking
fire were consumed. There were eight
other cars on the train and they were
not much damaged.
When the engine--No. 69S--went over
Cloughly was beneath 1t and he was so
frightfully mangled and injured that he
died soon after he was rescaed and that
was about two hours after the wreck
occurred.
Fireman Headline escaped almost
miraculously. At the time of the &C.
cident he was stocking up, his back be-
ing toward the furnace. Feeling the
engine sink he grasped the coal board
along the tender. When the engine
went over this was thrown distance
of twenty feet and the fireman went
with 1t. When found he was bruised
and unconscious, but his life was saved
and he was only slightly hurt.
The last train to pass over the
bridge before this one was II o'clock.
When the engine, No. 1907, reached
here, II was reported that its fire box
had been dropping fire for long dis
lance. That engine probably set fire TO
the culvert.
Henry T, Cloughly, the dead engi-
neer, was well known In Laramie, hay
Ing lived here much of the time for
about dozen years past. He was
native of Canada and was about "a
years of age. lie first entered the EN-
ploy Of the Union Pacific thirteen years
ago. He left the road for a time, but
five years ago returned and was en-
ployed first us q fireman and lately az
an engineer. lie was sober, industri-
Gus and thrifty and had saved u snug
sum variously estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The remains arrived in Audubon
last evening at 5 o'clock, accompanied
by an escort consisting of Mr.. Lewis
Miller of the Odd Fellows and VIM.
Batterton Of the Brotherhood of Loco.
motive Engineers. They were met at
the depot by the relatives and q very
large delegation Of Odd Fellows and
friends. The remains were exposed to
view, after which the procession pro.
ceeded to Maple Grove Cemetery, and
after short ceremony conducted by
Rev. Ed. Is. Cousins the deceased was
laid to rest near the brother, DIR. j. Il.
Cloughly, whose death occurred in Jan
uary last.
The death with It's weight of sadness
comes with peculiar force to the rela.
tive here. But few months ago the
deceased, In complete health and every
promise Of long life, gathered with the
family around the grave Of the son and
brother, and while that grief Is yet fresh
they are called TO mourn for that one
who was but Is no more. The large
circle Of friends of the fanily extend
heart felt sympathy.
From the gentlemen who accompan-
led the remains to Audubon we learn
that the deceased survived but an hour
and a quarter after the accident. One
arm was torn from the body and below
the hips the body and limbs were crush
cd. Notwithstanding his fearful suffer
ings, for such they must have been, he
was conscious from first to last, and
while pinioned gave orders to wreckers
as TO how they should move the weights
from upon him.