The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-02
CUT HIM RIGHT IN TWO
Horrible Death Of Conductor Fred
Kinball.
HE FELL UPON THE TRACK
BY Some Mistake the Unfortunate
Man Was Thrown From the Plat
form GA Car Directly in Front
of the Moving Wheels.

Fred W Kimball, a conductor on b.,
A. 4 p. flight train No. Z, was run over
and instintly killed about 2:lO O'Clock
YESTERDAY afternoon at Dawson, small
station sbout five miles below Silver
Bow. Tie train left Butte at O'Clock
and When il reached Dawson there was
some doubt whether or not Il could reach
the next station ahead of the passenger
from Anaconda.
Conducpr Kinball and the rear brake
man, William Brown, were in the caooose
of the trdn. The side track had not been
reached and the train was running at
speed of about Il miles an hour. Brown
sat in the cupola oil tho caboose and was
the nearest man to Kimball when the
accident happened and was the first to
reach his body. He and KiInball were
talk ing together when the latter went out
the dooL without saying anything as to
whore he was going or what he
was gong to do, though he
had told Brown that he expected
to run to Gregson without stop at Daw-
son, and TO meet tue passenger train from
Anaconda there. But the engineer was
slowing up, evidently intending to take
water from the the tank at Dawson. AS
Kimtall stepped to the platform II Is sup
posed to signal The engineer to go ahead,
the train slowed up suddenly and he was
thrown over the railing and moment
later was under the wheels. 1t is sup
posed that he was consulting his watch
when the cars jolted together, as that was
found at one side of the track and he had
removed his glove from the right hand.
Brown felt the caboose lurch as the
wheels passed over the body and he at
once applied the air brakes and signaled
the engineer to stop. He then leaped
from the train and ran back to where the
body Law. The wheels had cut the I'M
fortunate man in two, passing across his
abdomen. He did not speak, and the
twitchng of his muscles in the throes OF
death was the only sign of life in the
body. The body was taken to Butte on
the passenger train from Anaconda, and
taken to Sherman's under aklng rooms.
The deceased was 80 years of age and
was from Lebanon, New HAMPSHIRE. his
parents are now living IN Vermont and
he has two sisters, one CT whom Is grad
uate OF the state university at Iowa City,
Iowa, where she is matron of the hospital
and younger sister is student. The
relatives have been notified OF the acct
dent. Kimball was married some years
ago. but separated from his wife, who is
living in Spokane. He had been rail-
reading for 10 years and was a conduct OF
on the Central Vermont, the b., Z. Il.
NJ. and the n. p. railroads before coming Il
Anaconda. He was brakeman for several
months under Conductor II. Kennedy
but was soon promoted and given a train
He was a sober, steady man and stool
high in the confidence of his employer
and was very popular with his fellow
workers.
Coroner Richards of Silver Bow count,
will hold an inquest at Butte to-day at i
o'clock. No funeral arrangements will b
made until the relatives of the decease'
are heard from as to what disposition
shall be made of the body.