The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-16
A DEpIoRABLB Aco1DENr.
C. A. Tracy Killed in the santa Fe Yards WI lie
Repairing Car


usual. hale and hearty; at night he was
| taken to lis home corpse. He died with
| out knowing what happened him, the
fatality was 50 sudden and unexpected 1t
| is always very hard matter to get the de-
tails OF railroad accident, as no employe
cares to talk freely for some reason. By
| interviewing number of them. however
the facts are generally arrived at pretty
correctly. From the various reports of
the accident acquired by re-
porter for the EAGLE last
night the facts seem to be about as fol-
lows: Mr.. Tracy was repairing car in
| what is known as the rip track near
Kellogg street. The particular repairs
| needed, it seems, was the Insertion OF Il
/ draw head in one Of the cars. Attached TO
this particular Car was another car which
needed similar repairs. These two ca rs
were separated about a foot Or two so as
! 10 afford Mr.. Tracy an opening to work
/ between them. At about SO he was in
sertiug some screws and was standing
! squarely between the blocks at the end Of
each car. inst then the switch engine
kicked" another car at Waterman street
| intending to send it into the repair switch.
I
where Mr.. Tracy was working aud there
seemed to be no danger of the Car running
so far. The brakes OF it, it seems, were
broke, and it bumped up against the car
next to the one Mr.. Tracy was repairing
and pushed it forward catching Mr.
Tracy's breast between the blocks and
crushing the life out of him. instantaneously
. He was taken up and carried to his home
| or East Oak street, near Fifth avenue A
coroner's inquest will be held today at
which the responsibility Of the company
and its employees will be considered
| There are two stories about this response
bility;one is that the companys' employees
failed to use proper vgilence and that Mr..
! Tracy himself was guilty OF precisely the
same thing.
! 1t seems that when a repairer is work
ing between cars a flag is placed near him
TO warn the employees to be careful. This
was done it seems and done properly.
Then again while Mr.. Parsons WAS
| superintendent a switch. commonly
called a d switch, was put in for the
| protection of Car repairers at this place.
! This switch it is said, is supposed to be
opened by the said repairers SO that when
car is kicked back. and it goes 20 far, 1t
| leaves the track entirely SO there is no
possible danger of it running into the
switch in which the repairers are at work.
1t seems that this precaucion was not
taken however. on this occasion, and in
! this way either Mr. Tracy or the other
| employees with him did not use the proper
vgilence against accident. Neither of
these statements are authenticated by the
proper officer and may not be correct If
they are correct the matter will undoubt-
eddy be explained at the inquest today.
Mr.. Tracy was between 10 and 80 years of
age and leaves wife and one boy about
II years old to mourn his loss. He was
Mason and had an insurance in that or
ganiZation of 50 600. Personally he was q
very fine man aud his death is mourned by
all who knew him. His family seems to
he very unfortunate in the line of railway
accidents as he had two SONS killed in
railroad accidents during the past three
yeas. One of them fell off coal car at
Augusta some time ago and was killed
while another was crushed to death in the
Frisco 'Y' in this city about three years
ago by a carload of lumber. His remains
will be taken TO Halstead for burial
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