The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-12-17
DEATH OF SHM'L MhTHER.
Run Down BY An Engine While on a
St. Paul & Duluth
TreStle.
Death Resulted From Internal In
jurieS-An Arm Also
Broken.

Samuel Mather, of Echo, one of the
best known mon in this section of the
State, and one of the early settlers on
this, the then western frontier, was
killed in railroad accident at Ban
non, near Hinckley, in the northern
portion of this state, last Friday after
noon.
For year past Mr.. Mather, with
Ed. E. Terrell and D. D, Smith of
Minneapolis, have been interested in
extensive stone quarries at Bannon,
near Hinckley, and Mr.. Mather was
at Bannon making his regular visit to
the quarries and looking over the
quarries, just prior to the accident.
On the afternoon of the day on
which the accident happened Mr..
Mather, with his partner, D. D. Smith,
had walked half mile from the quar-
ries to an extensive wood pile for the
purpose of measuring the same prev
ious to making purchase. They had
performed this task and we're return
ing to the .quarries. Between the
quarries and the wood pile there is a
railroad trestle work $50 feet in length,
which the two men came over on and
recrossed in going back. Just back
from the trestle work the railroad
track makes sharp curve so that it
is impossible to see train or engine
approaching from that direction un-
til it nearly reaches the trestle. The
two men had nearly crossed the latter
when a switch-engine came rushing
around the curve. It whistled. Both
men heard it and Mr.. Smith jumped
from the bridge to the ground six feet
below. He called to Mr.. Mather to
jump, but the latter instead of heed
ing the warning, ran onward. He got
off the trestle on to the solid bed, but
instead of stepping to one side of the
track, he kept in the middle, and the
engine ran him down, striking him in
such manner as to hurl him from
the track and break an arm, and injure
him internally, bursting his blad-
der. He was Immediately picked up
and carried to house where he re-
NAMED until the next passenger train
came along. He was placed on this
to be taken to hospital in the Twin
Cities, but just as the train arrived at
White Bear Lake he breathed his last.
He was conscious up to within two
minutes of his death and realizing
that the end was near he pnlled his
pocketbook and valuable papers and
watch from his pocket, turned them
over to Mr.. Smith and told him how
to dispose of them. A few seconds
later he was dead.
The remains were taken to Mime
apolis, placed in casket and forward
ed to the home of the deceased in
Echo on Saturday. There in the
superb Mather home, they remained
until Monday afternoon, when the
funeral services over them we're held
at the English Methodist church, Rev.
w. H. Knowlton of the Episcopal
church of Holy Communion, Redwood
Falls, officiating. The services we're
held under the auspices of the Echo
A. o. U. w. Lodge, No. 134, of which
the deceased was a member and was
attended by number from Redwood
Lodge No. 68, of which the deceased
was also a charter member, and a
number from Belview lodge.
The floral offerings were numerous
and appropriate. One from his part
ner Mr.. Terrell, was huge book OF
yellow and white roses, lilies, carna-
tions and smilax, in the center OF
which, in bold letters, was the single
word 'Sam." The remains we're laid
to rest in the Echo cemetery.