Arizona republican., 1896-05-12
DEAD UNDER THE WHEELS
A Bright Lads Dreadful
 End.
Dreadful Accident that Befel
 J. Roe Young, N.
He Was Thrown Beneath the Train by and Unexpected
 Shock.

Shock.
 One of the most distressing hcca dents ever locally known occurred yes terday at Tempe, resulting in the death of James Monroe Young, son of Col. J. Roe Young, agent of the Maricopa and Pima reservation.
 The lad, who was but il years of age, had come to Mesa from SacatOn to stay a month at lthe Kimball house. His brother, John, is the conductor of Ithe local train on the Mariicopa & Phoe- nix railway, running by way of Tempe ito Phoenix Yesterday the lad joined hds brother for a trip to Phoenix. At Tempe, as is usual, the train stopped while the engine and train crew engaged i'm switching iln the rail- road yard. The task was to pick up a heavy stock car on which brake was defective and to bring it ito Phoenix for repairs at the shop The car was at hhe end of lthe lime of stock cars, so, after lthe cars had been pulled from tjhe switch, ais is usual, lit was kicked" by the engine back ito lthe local train, the engine then proceeding to replace | the other cars on the siding. On the conductor, John Young, devolved the care of the shrnted car It rolled back slowly toward the train, sent, according to the engineer, by a very gentle kick" with Young walking alongside. When about 100 feet from the train Young, finding tIhe car was l m fr, nf oryi, ,or1 tod mentum, clambered ito the top and set ! the remaining brake Ito the utmost limit, sliding the wheels of one of the trucks But tine weight of tine ear was idoo great and into the train it crashed, with a shock that threw the passsngeFE from their seats.
 :! The train. it should be explained, ! .T42Is composed of 6 pa,S5eI ger coach and : an express car, the latter an old Mari- i eopa & Phperlix qloXcar with a door cut in one end, though without Ia plat form. It w1sis through ltlns door, sey- e1,al years ago, that Oliver Bewley, a Phoenix m1DJ.idhn, stepped to his death. 1 Young, junior, was standing in this doorway, talking ito some Indians on the platform, hts back to Itlie stock car ] that was bearing down, unknown to him, upon tllrs car When tlhe shock came, he WAS at first thrown back ward. and then forward again, while Dr. Wilbur of Mesa, and Elwin Barlowe, i who were sltandiing by, vainly tried to grasp him. But through the door he was hurled, between Uhe passenger and express cars and under the express i car wheels. The car moved probably not over ten feet from the impulse given it, but the distance was sllffi cient. Two of the wheels of the rear truck passed over the unfortunate Saai's head, crushing the rife out of him be l bore he had time to utter syllable The body WAS tendeuly taken from beneath the trucks and laid out in iae station. The wheels had passed over lthe top of the head and one side of the face. The brother, who so uncon- sciously paFtid pated in the death of one he thelld moSj dear in life, was wild with grief, and the news, te5e- graphed Ito Phoenix, was broken with ta.l sympathetic feeling to 3he father, who happened to be in tlhe a.ty. The train, which had come pn, was dis patched back again and tine corpse was brought to Phoenix
 l Cenou-OC O1 tt4lS I tdCS OIhitu OI lGIuDS empane-aed a coroneT's jury and viewed ldhe remains Adjournment was ths1 taken till 10 o'clock this morning, at which time witnesses of the tragedy will be examined and the blame fixed. if blame there be.
 The funeral will be this afternoon at 80 from the Commercial hotel, that time being chosen that the friends of the family resident in Tempe and Mesa may tthe better attend Rev Cal Ogburn of the Christian church will conduct hhe services. Attendant Will be the pupils of the Indian school of Phoenix, 400 strong, nearly every one a personal friend of the boy to whom death had so umtimely come.
 The mother will arrive this morning from Sacaton, and from Tucson wiN come "a brother who has been attending the university
 The dead boy was born in Kentucky in 1885 and came out here several years ago, when his father assumed charge of the reservation. He was one of the brightest of children. the especial pride of his father, popular with all and of the most cheery d;spo- slidon. He had an especial talent for music and life seemed to him to be "a very song of joy.