The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-12-22
MANGLED REMAINS
OF AWsLL KNOWN RAIL RoADeR FOUND
NEAR STARK SIDING.
Patrick Flynn Pays Visit to Alliance
and is Killed While on His Way Home
The Body Discovered by Trainmen.


and is Killed While on His Way Home
The Body Discovered by Trainmen.
Patrick Flynn of No. 208 South Cherry
street, this city, was instantly killed AT 'ne
Stark siding along the Ft. wayne roeu
during last night. His badly manRled re-
maine we're discovered lying along the
railway track west OF Hartford crossng
about o'clock this morning. just when
the accident took place, is not known;
The remains we're brought TO this city ana
taken to McCrea's dertaking rooms ana
thence TO the mans late home.
Flynn is married man and he leaves
wife, n son and q stepson, the former boy
about ten years of age and the Latter
about thirteen, Yesterday morning Flynn
told his wife he would go to Alliance 70
nay his dues to the secretary OF the
Switchm ans Mutual Aid Association or
North America. He left the house
but returned at noon, saying ne
had missed the train. Az iour
O'Clock Sunday afternoon IN company
with his stepsou he took the train 10 Als
lance. Iu tho evening he started home,
leaving the boy at that place to come
home later on.
The men on an east bound train passing
| along Hartford street at an early bour
| this morning discovered the remains OF q
man lying along the gide St the tTaSK, ,h.
y
| flrst section of train a they Informed Con:
ductor Dell Strong of their discovery OF
| the body. and when tits traih reached the
| place n stop WAS made an5 the remains
| nut on the train and brought To tors cly'
Evidently Flynn was instantly killrd. A
| fracture about five inches in lenRth tX-
| tendsd across the skull, exposing Tue
brain, There was q had cut aOove the
| right eye, and the right foot was cru9bed,
| From the wounds IL would appear tbat
| Flynn was lying across the rails when
| struck. A watch chain, with the time
piece missing, pursa containing hIty-
Ave cents and q few poker chips, aud
| some pspere, were found or the person oil
| the dead man. ~ O
Flynn was employed on the c. C. c. d
S. railway as brakeman. He was thirty =
| three years Of age and quite well known
among the rail rUay mDu belapglnG TO tne
Switchmen's Union, No. 96. When he
left home he told bis wife he would
return home this morning. The rsmai1s
were taken to his late residence on SOUTH
Cherry street this morning, The stepson
will arrive here from Alliance sometime
| today.
matter of conjecture.
THE sTEPSoE RETURNS.
FlyDn's stepson returned TO Canton this
morning, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
GoDDgl OF Alliance, at whose nome ne re-
mainsd during last night. Itseems Flynn
ven: 10 Il lodge meeting with Copnel last
night and was last seen by that gentle,
mhu at II o'clock when he said he would
go home on No. l train. Some railroad
men allege they sew Flynn at shao'y
near the ,iiroai station ABOUT midnight,
where be said he was waiting for train
west bcuud.
The most plausible theory advanced by
The coroner from the statements OF vAr'
| ious uarties. is that Flynn came over on
through freight which makes but on" stop
| here, and that OF Stark siding. In jump
| ING off hero the man started TO walk
home when hs was overtakeu by train,