The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-21
UNDER THE WHEELS.
An Unknown Man Ground to
Death by 4 Freight Car.
HIS HEAD MASHED TO a JELLY.
BSling % Cesl Train He II Dragged
UaAsr TIE whssls - ssekening
eieht for the Curious.

An unknown man was killed on the King
efreet narrow guage testle last evening 1t
B:46 o'clock, BY being ground under the
wheels Of . Columbia q Puget Sound
freight car.
Engine No. 7, employed about the yard
n keeping the bunkefs supplied with coal
ear. LEFT Railroad avenue just before the
accident. pushing FIVE empty cars towards
Commercial street. At John Z. Goods
brass foundry, below Commercial street, q
man Of about Is years. with q round,
smooth face and red hair. atsired in com
mon working clothing. heavy brogans. and
wearing q black SLOUGH felt hat. with holes
cut ia Il al around, was noticed to jump
On the front end Of the frs. car. He hung
at the side, swinging about until the car
approached heavy stay post that helped
70 hold MP the railway incline overhead.
He appeared to be afraid that he would be
struck, should he remain on the side, for
- shifted his position to the front Of the
en-. and In 20 doing lost his footing. He
was seen to hold to the top of the low car
with both hands a. long as he could. but
III dragging feet swiftly pulled him under
3he grinding wheels to his death. When
he LEI 70 with bis hands he passed the
front trucks in safety, but in his attempt to
roll from under, his head was caught by
The trucks on the lower end Of the car. and
HI body was dragged along for nearly 100
5oot before Engineer Stevens could bring
tho train 70 stop.
0nlcer Hamilton, who by this time had
Wrivod, tried TO pull the man from the
wheels, bat could not: the head was
Wedged under the heavy truck so securely
that the car had to be picked up. When
che man was pulled out the sight that met
tho eyes of the several hundred people
standing around was horrifying. The en-
tire top Of the head as far as the eyes was
form loose and the brains fell ont on the
Ties, and dropped into the water. The nose
and every bone in the face were smashed
and broken. SO as to render the remains
completely unrecognizahle. Officer Hamil-
ton and Lieutenant Hanna covered the
mutilated remains with sacks and kept
away the mass Of curions humanity who
crowded around, until the coroner arrived
With . wagon.
when searched ut the morgue. nothing
was found on the remains but Q pocket
knife. plug Of tobacco and . rubber
tobacco pouch. Not piece Of paper of any
description was found. and the name of the
dead man will probably remain q mystery.
- be seemed to have no friends. A long
shorsman looking at the remains stated
hat every day for the past two weeks he
bas seen the man around the longshore-
mons reading and club room on Railroad
uenue and thought the man was mem.
Der Of the union. His hands were soft and
delicate. however, and the muscles of the
arms were not developed, and il was very
evident that he had never worked very hard
st manual labor. He weighed about 40
pounds and was probably Swede. The
,oroner will not hold any inquest, as he
sonsidered that death was plainly due to
accident.
AZ the man had no money, the remains
will b buried in the potters' field.