The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-20
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GUY WHITE OF ARKANSAS CITY
KILLED BY A Train.
He was Stealing a Ride on the Trucks and
Severa! Trains Thought to have Rur
Over the Body as it was Horribly Man
gled-His Father Could Only Identify
the Body by the Clothes Worn and
Pocket Anife-Rcmains Taken to Ar
kansas City for Burial.

kansas City for Burial.
Yesterday morning the Santa Fe train
from the north in charge of Conductor
Edward Kitchen, brought in the re-
mains of Guy a. White, a 14-year-old
| boy whose parents live at Arkansas
CITY.
The remains were a mass of bones
and flesh having been so horribly man
gled that 1t was thought that several
trains had run over them.
They were found on the railroad
track one and half miles this side OF
Sedgwick City in this county and were
turned over to Undertaken Kendle.
No one knew anything about them
as there were no papers in the pockets
10 identify the person killed and very
little hopes were entertained that iden
LITIGATION could be made.
At noon T. c. White arrived from
Arkansas City and asked TO see the
remains. He said that colored boy
came to him al his home at Arkansas
City about O'Clock in the morning and
told him that his son Guy had been kill
ed and that the body was now at Wich-
tia. The boy stated that he and Guy
er and that they rode on the trucks of
the 1880 passenger trait He said
that upon arriving at Wichita he con-
Guided that he would not go any far
Their but that Guy went on. He also
stated that as he started to return home
in the morning he heard about Guy be-
ing killed
When Mr.. White, who is an old SOL
dier, arrived here he went to Kendle's
but could not recognize his boy. He
then went TO the coroner's office where
he recognized the clothing and a pen
knife that was in one Of the pockets
He told the coroner that the boy ran
away from home rather than go to
school and that as late as the previous
day he offered to give him 10 cents for
every day he would attend school.
Mr.. White being a poor man Coroner
McCollister telegra pied to Topeka for
pass for the remains to Arkansas City
where they were taken on the evening
train
Funrther details are given in the fol-
lowing from the Arkansas CITY Tray-
eler:
Last night three BOYS, two of whom
were colored, boarded a train here to
peat their way to Kansas City. The
boys were all bootblacks and their
names are John White and Alb SIM
mons, both colored, and Guy White. a
white boy whose father, I. c. White.
keeps a second hand store on Summit
street
What train the boys caught is not
known and makes no difference. The
trainmen on passenger 407, soutrbound
TINS morning found the mangled body
of a boy strewn along the track for a
distance of several rods and inyestiga.
ton showed that the mangled AMI dis
figured body was that of Guy White
The remains Were found about q mile
and half from Sedgwick AMI it is
the opinion OF the train men fiat at
least three trains passed over them in
the darkness
1t is supposed that the boy was rid
ing on the trucks, that he went to
sleep and was probably instantly killed
Conductor Ed kitching was in charge
or the train and found one Of the col
ored boys who was in company with
young White. The boy was found rid
ing the trucks and promptly hid out
when Ed tried to talk with him. At
Mulvane. Ed sawhim standing a I some
little distance from the train and went
up to him. The boy was inclined TO
think ii was put up job to do him up
but at last, by cOaXing. Ed managed
10 get him on the train and had a. talk
with him. The boy, by the description
given him. identified the unfortunate
lad who was killed as being Guy White
He said they had caught a train out OF
Wichita during the early evening and
We're riding the trucks. He knew moth
ing of young Whites death until told
by Conductor Kitching.
The boys father was at the depot
this morning and from the description
given by the trainmen he was conf
dent that the remains We're those Of
his son. He went to Wichita today 10
identify them.
The report of the trainmen is TO the
effect that the body was cut into a
dozen pieces. Both arms and legs We're
off. the trunk was cut in two and the |
head, although one side Of the face |
is practically uninjured and can be rea- |
Oily identified by any one acquainted |
with him. That the dead boy is Guy |
White admits Of practically no doubt. |
Sam Farmer, a colored boOtblack, |
here, was going with the other boys as |
far as Wichita. but for some reason |
failed to get away. He too, was at the |
train this morning and at once recog- |
nized the description given by the train |
men, even TO the color OF the clothes |
worn by young White and found on \
the mangled body OF the corpse. He |
was a brother of LebO White.