The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-10-30
MANCLED BY ATRAIN.
hoe Chamberlain. an Insane Man. Meets
a Horrible Death.


Butte. Oct. ao.-Joe Chamberlain. an
old and wcl.-known employe at the Colo
RADIO smcl'cr. was run over by a freight
train on the Montana Union tracks close
to the smetcr tonight and horribly man.
gled. The unfortunate man was TOM
porarily insane at tho time, aud whether
he deliberately threw himself in front OF
the train. or was caught while crossing
the track, remains for tue coroner's jury
TO decide.
The dead man and his brother Frank
have been working at the Colorado smell
ter for several years, and they boarded
together in the boarding house just across
the track from the watchman's shanty at
the upper end of the works, both being un.
married. About three weeks ago Joe lost
his reason, and since that time he has
been rather closely watched by his brother
and friends. His insanity was not OF
n violent character, but il was feared
that he might do himself injury or
he might get run over, as the Montana
Union tracks run along close to the house.
trains passing at frequent intervals. He
was employed as oiler at the concentra-
tor, and about month ago, while he was
at work. tho engineer happened to read
something aloud % tho effect that .
crazy man cannot go TO heaven. but will
be etcrnally damned.
That settles u, said Chamberlain, II
quit right here" and he set down his oil
can aud walked out of the building. This
was the first indication he gave of in
sanity, and his brother at once took him
TO Gregson Springs in the hope that the
| treatment would prove beneficial. At
first he was insane only at intervals,
| k..s In hnil
his reason completely. About two
weeks ago no got away from his
brother and broke into an adjoining cabin
and smashed things up generally, saying
that hc was going to run things right In
that place. This however was his only
act of violence and after that he was
usually very quiet.
| About 1880 o'clock this evening he left
the boarding house and started across tho
track to the watchman's cabin. His
brother thought nothing Of this IS
hc frequently wandered short dis
tance away from the house but
happening to step to the door a minute
later he saw a freight train coming down
the track at lively rate of speed. Frank
called to his brother. no was within few
yards of the track. but as he paid no at
tention to him he started to run after him.
| Before he could reach him, however. tho
train had struck him and he was literally
torn to pieces His legs. left arm
and head were completely torn
from his body and pieces of the
manglcd remains were picked up for a
distance Of nearly hundred yards. The
coroner was notified and the body was re-
moved TO the Butte Undertaking COM
pauy's rooms, where an inquest will be
held at o'clock tomorrow after
noon. The coroner was unable to
learn anything further than that
IL was a freight train that did
the bloody work. The Union Pacific and
the Montana Union both run trains over
the road aud the train may have belonged
TO either one of them. The man was 90
years old and had been working at the
Colorado smclter almost constantly for
the past seven or eight years.
For short time he worked n, the Alice
mill in walkcrville. He came from little
town near Quebec. where several brothers
and sisters are still living. His parents
are both dead. II is said that he owned
considerable property in Canada.