Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-30
IS INSTANTLY KILLED.
A Fatal Accident in the Local Rail
road Yards a Q O'clock this
Morning.
Morning.
John Brown, q Russian, Attempts to
Jump From a Swiftly Nov
ing Train.
Slips and Falls Between the Cars
and is Instantly Kllled-0ther
Local News.
A Sad Accident.

A Sad Accident.
There was q sad accident in the rail-
road yards here Saturday, whereby
John Brown, q Russian, and one OF q col
ony of that nationality who have been
living in the city during the winter, met
with an instant death. Brown was a
young fellow of 20 or 81 years of age,
strong and active, and his sudden taking
Oft is another example of the danger to
inexperienced persons in attempting to
get on and off moving trains. As nearly
as can be learned, Brown with several
companions, had been up at Rock Haven
for several days, engaged in looking after
the steamboats, there during the break
up. This morning they started for
home, and upon arriving at the bridge,
caught an east bound freight train, upon
which they rode to the city. When the
train reached the round house, at the
east end of the yards, the four men
jumped off, and three of them without in
jury. Brown, however was less fortunate
andhe must have slipped and fallen
between the cars. He was struck by the
train as it passed, and the train crew
saw the body of the man fall beside
the track. An examination of it re.
vealed the fact that the mans death
must have been instantaneous, one arm
being badly broken, the bone protrud-
ing from the flesh, while the head was
badly cut, the back of the skull being
ground to- a pulpy a Of flesh and
bones. From the forehead back to the
crown was a gaping wound, from which
the blood had flown down over the face
and neck, ~besmearing the features and
lending a sickening appearance to the
face. The body of the man was picked
up and placed upon a stretcher, whence
it was carried up to the depot, and
placed in the baggage room.
In the meantime, word of the accident
had reached the Russian settlement, and
several of them fastened to the depot
for confirmation of the rumor that one of
their number had met his death. AS
the body, covered with a black cloth,
was carried along the depot platform on
the stretcher, one of the Russians, an
old man with gray hair, whose face wore
a look of dread lest the deceased should
prove to be one of his rela-
tives, approached the stretcher, and
lifted the cloth from the face
of the dead man. A shrek of
anguish escaped him as he recognized
the face az that of his son, aud with half
i%narticulate meanings and incoherent
expressions of grief, he followed the body
into the baggage room, where he knelt
down beside it, removed the cover from
the blood-stained face, and kissed the
bruised and battered features, stroking
the bead with his hands, and murmuring
broken expression of endearment, be.
tween his sobs and means. He was
joined at this time by his wife, and to.
gether the two wept beside the body of
the dead son, and fondled his cold face,
now examining the cruel wounds upon
the head, and now breaking forth in loud
walls and lamentations. The lgrlef of
the couple was pathetic, and the specta-
tors turned away, touched by the sad
ness of the accident, and the grief and
sorrow of the parents of the dead man.
The body was taken to the undertak-
ing establishment of Webb Bres., shortly
after the accident. No inquest was held,
as there is no doubt that the death was
accidental. It will probably be buried
on Monday.