The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-11

was climbing over the cars. de was
! hurrying over the train trying to get
away from some one. When the man
fell, l don't know, l did not see him
fall. From what l could see of him,
/ think he ives a light complicated
man. There was one on the south
side / did not see the one on the
nerth side of the train. l think the
train was going st the rate of about
10 or II miles an hour.
Herman Miller. l was the first on
the spot after he had been run over
l did not see him fall but just ssw him
lying there.
Geo. Leonberger: All l know is
that We were pulling into the yards
between 2:15 and 2::20 and l went tn
the Office to register my train and
then walked back to the caboo.e. We
we're pulling into the yards more than
six miles an hour.
Henry Young did not see him
fail at all. I did not know anything
of the accident until / met Leonberger
and he told me.
William Alice: dill not see the
man fall, and don't know only what
l was lold. l saw the man on the
track.
w. T. Baker: / know nothing of
the accident, that is did not zee any
of it. There are three brskemen on
the train and they were on the top Of
the train At the time. l did not know
we Rad a mao on the train.
George Leouberger, recalled: l
cannot tell how many cars ran over
him. We had forty-two loaded cars
in the train and half of them may
have gone over him before we had
known it. Ishould judge that shout
fifteen cars passed over his body.
Henry Young, recalled: l did not
see theman at all. I did not see the man
at all. 1 did see two men get of the
train below the crossing, but did not
get to see what they looked like. We
sre not allowed to carry passengers
on . freight train.
George Beatty: l am q fireman
on the Missouri Pacific road.
l was in my back yard when the train
pulled in. A rag man was there and
I had been out in the yard looking at.
ter him. l did not see q man fall, as
you cannot see the track from my
house.
William Meyers, recalled: 1 was
about 200 feet away from the track
on the south side when the train
passed. When it passed the cross
ing the man was hanging on the ham
dies with bis face turned upwards and
it wore an expression of fright. 1t
looked as if he was being pursued and
wanted to wait. His face was
bleached and bore horrible express
sion. did not see any hand touch
him. A man on the cars was kicking
at some thing below him when they
psssed me. This man WAS in a crowd
Of three, and l am positive that one
of them was the dead man. When 1
made my statement in the yards was
called liar, but as far as being told
not to testify or not to say anything
more, it is not so.
The jury retired for q short consul
tati n and returned with the verdict
as follows:
1--WE, the jury, find that an IN
known person supposed to be named
Smith, hsiling from New York City,
came to his death by falling from and
under the wheels of freight train No.
131 at the intersection of Emmett
street and Missouri Pacific tracks at
2:15 p. M, August the 5th, 1891"
"The jury also finds from the evi.
dence before it that there is a suspic-
ion that the aforesaid Smith was fore.
ed of the train By some unknown per-
son thereby causing his death"
(S,gned.)