Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-18
Daily kennebec Journal.
No BLAME.
Coroner Jury So Decide in Inques,
Over Man Killed, Friday,
BY N zine Central Freight Train. No. AZ
No Clue TO His Identity Yet Found.

nuire into the death of the unknown
tramp killed, four miles north of Au-
gusta, last Friday morning. by the
early Maine Central freight. met IN
Williamson Il Burleigh's law office,
Monday morning and heard the testi-
mony of the uainmen.
Frank l.. Lowe of Waterville. who
was engineer of the train that morn
ing testified that he left WaterVille al
AS \ NJ. Nassalboro at BIS and
riverside at 80. He knew nothing of
the accident until the conductor came
over the cars at HalloWell and asked
him ii he had seen anybody on the
track He didn't see anybody but the
track walker whom he passed at Nj
Tom When the conductor asked him
he got down and examined the left
side Of the engine and found smd
spot OF blood on the SNOW plate AMI
again a little blood on the wheel cover
If the pony wheels, From whore an
engineer sits in the cab it is not posi-
BILE to see the pilot
W 5. Bennett Of Waterville. the fire
man on the train. testified To practi-
cally the same as Engineer Lowe. H.
had no occasion to go To the front OF
the locomotive thar morning until
they got TO Hallowcn when he Wen;
forward to blow out the headlight
Eugene Hurd. the track walker said
he left the car house at the end of the
bridge at $50 Friday morning His
section extends five miles from the
end of the bridge, He was walking ANA
carried a hatchet and lantern He
passed the freight at Mt Tom. stand
ing about - feet from the track when
the train went by lie let his axe down
AMI saw blood just after the freight
had passed him. He went on ana
found the cap and mittens and then
went to the end of the section. He
ran back and l. telegraph poles from
the place his mittens and cap lay h
found the body between the rails, the
head outside and the arm below the
body. He ran back to signal train Il.
but couldn't stop them in time to pro
vent them passing over the body but
didn't ljGtllrh the
mains Just after the section boss
came up a man with a blanket Over
his shoulders came along. The boss
said he was a farmer who lived near
there The head lay just this side OF a
culvert. the body l. feet below ami
the arm just beyond that.
The jury decided that the unknoWh
man came to his death upon the track
of the Maine Central Railroad at Il
point about four miles north Of Angus
ia station in said Augusta by being hi
and crushed by engine and train No.
T. on said road while lying on sail
track. That no blame is to be attached
to the engineer, fireman, conductor, "f
other employees Of said railroad fo!
said death.
Nathan Benson of Sidney, tcld sew
eral persons that at l2.f5 Thursday
night two men called him up and IL -
ouircd the way TO the railroad. T't
one that did the talking answers T."
The description of the man killed.
No further cleW has been found T."
the identity Of the man and unless tn
man who was seen with the dead man
The previous night is found il is prob
able thar his name and residence WEI!
never be known. In talking with En-
gineer Lowe. after the inquest. he tool
a Journal reporter that ii was the flrSt
inquest that he had ever attended a.
the thirty years that he mad h' Ii
running a locomotive.