The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-13
DEATH IN THE NIGHT
AN UNKNOWN MAN RUN DOWN IN
THE ST. PAUL & DULUTH
YARDS.
NAME THOUGHT TO BE CLINE
FROM MARKINGS ON THE LINEN
OF THE DEAD MANS
APPAREL.
lad BEEN SEEN ABOUT THERE,
But His Identity Had Not Been Re.
veaIed at u Late Hour Last
Night.

"A whose Is supposed
markings on his linen to be Cline, was
killed by ST. Paul & Duluth freight
train at East st. Paul at II :35 o'clock
last night The man was walking on
the track ahead of the train about 200
feet east Of the depot at East st. Paul.
He was seen at the moment the train
was about to strike him, and the en-
CINE whistle sounded, but not in time
to allow him to escape, though as he
was hurled to an adjacent track in
stead of under the wheels of the en-
CINE it is supposed he made an effort
to get out of the way. He was thrown
violently to the ground, striking upon
the. back of the head, where cash
seven inches long was cut in the scalp.
Later, upon the investigation of Cor
oner Nelson, it was found that death
had been caused by a fracture of the
skull Beyond the injury to the head
the mans body bore no other marks of
violence. No bones were broken, nor
was the body bruised
The train which ran the man down
was the fast freight in charge of Con-
ductor A. Schneider, of 274 Maple
street; Engineer Robert Duncan, sol
I1OpNlIS SiISSl, anu Ii 0IIldu w. y.
Murphy, 1888 Reaney street and follow
ed about ten minutes behind the reg
ular Duluth night passenger train,
which left the union depot at 11:15. The
dead man had been sitting on a bench
at the depot a few minutes before the
freight train came along He had ap-
preached from toward the city and
asked Gus Peterson, fagman In
charge of the station, for a drink Of
water. He was given drink and
started eastward down the track again.
He had scarcely got out of sight
when the freight train rumbled past
the station, and in few moments the
shrill blast of the whistle denoted
something wrong. The train came to
a stop, and Engineer Duncan, with
Fireman Murphy and Conductor
Schneider hurried back The engineer
had seen the man on the track and
knew the train must have struck him.
Scarcely the length of three cars back,
SO slowly had the train been going and
so promptly had it been stopped, the
crew found the unconscious form of the
stranger. He was still alive, but made
no effort to move OF speak beyond a
series u pdlHIuI D1Her-
ent members of the train crew ran to
the station for help, but by the time
they returned the man was dead hav-
ing lived in all about five minutes af-
ter being struck.
No one seemed to know the man.
F'fagman Peterson said he had simply
complied with his request for a drink
of water, and had had no conversatio
wit i'm hot Ln
sober, Flagman Peterson was certain
Carl Anderson, a boy living at 1913
East Seventh street, said he had seen
the man about the station earlier in
the evening. He was sitting on the
bench, the boy says, with his hands
resting upon his knees as though in
deep thought. The stranger asked the
boy what time it was, and, lighting a
match to look at the station clock
through the window, the Lad found it
was twenty-five minutes to IL. Others
who saw the body said the man had
been about the vicinity of Seventh and
Earl streets all evening.
The dead man was apparently about
fifty years old, and from some old files
found in his pockets, likely a machin-
list. Physically, he was large, probably
five feet eleven inches tall, weighing
l75 pounds. His hair was curly, thick,
and dark brown in color, while he wore
small goatee and thin mustache,
slightly tinged with gray. His apparel
consisted of a white shirt, celluloid
turned-down collar, dark greyish
brown coat and vest and two pairs of
trousers, the under ones matching the
coat and vest, while the outside pair
was of light grey striped pattern.
His shoes were black congress style.
The only papers found which may def
Nnitely establish the mans identity
was a business card of DIR. Chas. D..
Feller, bearing the name and address
of John Beede, 906 York street, and