El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-24
MET A HORRIBLE FATE.
THE REMAINS OF JOHN H NEWBlLL
PICKED UP ALONG THE TRACK.
He had Cut his Throat in the Lindell
Hotel and Then Wandered Three
Miles East of Town.

Yesterday morning Mr.. r. 81.
Thcrhe, living at the Evergreen
cemetery, telephoned to town that the
remain of man had been found on
the G. II. track, and asked the Culd-
well undertaking establishment to send
,, out the dead wagon and bring the body
to town. About the same time Sup
erintendent Martin telephOned Justice
Bridgers to 60 out and review the re-
mains of a man who had been run over
the night before by a train.
Justice Bridgers, A. j. Nichols, OF
the Cald well Undertaking company
and u reporter If the HERALD imme-
distely went out to where the accident
had occurred, and found the
mangled remains of young man
about twenty years old. It was at first
thought the man had been riding the
brake rods and had fallen off aud been
run over by some out going train dur
ing the night, but later Developments
showed that this theory was wrong.
Mr.. Bridgers, of the Graphic, gives
which is correct as far as the HERALD
reporter knows:
The body was frightfully mangle1
ard portions of it had to be picked up
with a shovel. The train evide ntly
first passed over the body at the hips,
cutting it in two. The trunk of the
b:dy, after b,ing carried about 10 feet
from where it was first struck, was
thrown few feet from the rails, on
aud TO a distance of about Is yards
from that point the lower portion Of
the body was also hurled aside by the
rapidly turning wheels aud left lying q
few fe9t from the track, practically
grou ID to pieces. Between the points
where she trunk and the lower por-
tons of the 'hOdy were found the track
was st-ewn with bits of flesh, shreds
of clothing and the slsshed remains of
a pair of shoes. At one point portion
of the spinal column, about six inches
in length, WAS picked up. At anoth r
point the toes of one foot had been
trimmed off as clean as if by q razor
At another point there was q piece of
skin, and at another piece of bone.
The arms and legs were broken in per-
haps dozen places. The forehead
WAS crushed and the face bruised, and
for the time being the body was an un-
recogri liable mass of flesh. The bat Of
the deceased was lying about ten feet
from the main portion of the body an
handkerchief was also picked up.
The entire mass was picked up and
placed in the dead wagon and carried
TO The Caldwell mOrgue."
The HERALD reporter remem bered
seeing the man at the corner of Oregon
and San Antonio strs cts last Thursday
Or Fridsy afternoon, and as soon as the
bOoy was placed in the mOrPue and a
large mum Der of people were called in
to identify, many of them when they
saw the horribly mangled mass Of flesh
which was once a living human being.
turned away OK and could not stand
the sight, much lees try to identify the
remains.
The following account is from the
Graphic and is the same facts as the
HERALD reporter developed yesterday
and today:
the police were called in and all
were of the opinion that the man had
hen murdered and pla ed on the rail-
road track to conceal the evidences of
crime. Then j. was remembered tina
there was but little blood On the track
where the body was found, that no
V luables of any kind we're found in the
pockets of the remnants of the suit OF
clothes which the deceased lad worn
and that there we're two towels tied
around the mex of the dad man. The
| theory of murder was unquestioned un-
til late in The afternoon. ard all agreed
| that the man had first been knocked in
| the bead and the n his throat cut The
object then uppermost in the minds OF
the offic- rs was to identity the dead
man ana run down his slayers. The
news of the supposed murder spread
api6ly aud by o'clock hundreds OF
people were viewing the remains.
Dozens OF people said they had seer