Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-11-16
Tim Mullen Killed.

was run over by the cars in front of
the Depot Hotel Wednesday night
and SO badly injured that he died
five minutes after beng taken to the
hospital. How the accident occurred
Is a mystery that we have been un-
able to solve. The facts as we learn
them are briefly these: Eastbound
freight train No. 2O6. Conductor Ros-
sitter, pulled in at 6:12 and left at
GIG, according to the record made at
the time in the Office at the freight
bouse. Tim was standing on the
hotel platform in front of the billiard
room and seemad to be watching a
game while the train was standing on
the track in front of the hotel. Tom
Tenant, the INDEPENDENT foreman,
and others saw him there and con-
versed with hun. The train pulled
out shortly after and fins mangled
body was found on the track between
the rails. just as the train was pull
ing out, Mr.. Nuckols OF Deeth came
out of the hotel and something on
the track under the cars attracted
his attention. He thought it was a
man and watched it until two freight
care and the caboJse had passed over
it, dragging it along the track. He
went to where the object was lying
and found the mangled, bleeding
body of man. Paul Keyser, who
was standing at the crossing, waiting
for the train to pass, saw a man
spring under the cars as the train
was pulling out. In the dim light
Paul was unable to distinguish the
features of the man and does not
know whether the man he saw was
Tim OF not. The man Paul saw
seemed to come from nearly in front
OF the bar room, while Tins hat was
found several feet west of the bar
room, indicating that he had attempt.
ed to board the train west of where
Paul saw the man ewing under the
cars. If the man Paul saw was the
deceased, it would look like a clear
case Of suicide. If he was some
tramp stealing a ride, it would APP
pear that Tim had attempted to cross
the track by going over the bumpers,
when the train started and he was
thrown under the cars and dragged
along by the brake beams. His body
was found about fifty feet east of
where his hat lay on the outside Of
the track. 1t is reported that Mullen
said on the way to the hospital that
he had attempted to commit suicide,
but was afraid he had made failure
of it.
DR.. Hood was notified of the accl-
dent and had the deceased removed
to the hospital, where an examination
disclosed that his left thigh bone was
badly crushed, though the skin was
not broken, his right hip was badly
bruised, his skull fractured over the
right temple, beside being injured in
ternally. DR.. Hood does not believe
it case of suicide. He thinks the
man Paul Keyser saw swing under
the train was patient from the hos
pital who was discharged yesterday.
Coroner Morgan held an inquest
this afternoon. The evidence adj
duced did not differ materially from
the above. The jury rendered the
the following verdict:
ave, tho jury summoned by the
coroner, l.. E. Morgan, to inquire in.
to the death Of man killed by the
cars of the s. p. r. r. in the town Of
Elko, do find that the deceased man
was Timothy Mullen, age about thir.
ty years, Of Irish parents, and that he
came to his death by being run over
by the cars OF the s. P. r. r. on the
evening OF the 18th Of Nov, 1885,"
From what the INDEPENDENT is
able to learn the deceased was q ma
tive Of Belmont, Nevada, aged about
SO or 81 years. He has q mother and