The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-24
FATAL DAY FOR FOLEY
Killed While Attempting to
Board a Train.
SOME SERIOUS ACCIDENTS
Boy Named Vincent Rooney Had q
Foot Cut Off and Phil Good
win Had His Foot
Crushed

Yesterdays celebration was attended
by number of serious accidents. One
proved fatal to Jerry Foley of Ana
conda, who was attempting to board {.
freight train, and received injuries
from which he died. In others that
We're reported boy named Vincent
Rooney had a foot cut off by the first
section of the soldiers train, and Phil
Goodwin of the Miner had a foot badly
crushed while riding on street car.
The accident which cost Jerry Foley
his life occurred at the Northern Pa
cif1c round house shortly after the SOL
diers arrived. Foley came over from
Anaconda early yesterday to attend
the reception and was at the scene OF
the Decentralization to welcome some
friend he had in the regiment.
After the train had been unloaded
and others had gone to the race track
Foley concluded to come up town. Just
then a freight train of the Northern
Pacific came along from the east and
he decided to catch it and ride as far
toward town as he could. He had been
an old railroad man, it is said and
therefore thought nothing of trying to
catch the caboose while the train was
running at a fair rate Of speed. He
had on heavy overcoat, which was
doubtless the cause of his mishap, as
1t interfered with the freedom Of his
limbs, and, as he caught the handls-
bars of the caboose and attempted to
swing up on the steps, he missed his
footing and fell under the wheels. AS
the train passed on he was picked up,
mangled in terrible manner. Brain
matter was oozing from his head where
II had haan hr1fSa1 nd q
mashed and ground to pieces.
The injured man was carried into
the round house and the company sur
geon called. As there We're no facilities
at the round house for attending to his
injuries, Foley was removed to the hos
pital and County Physician Sheeran
notified. He laid at the round house
ing taken to the hospital. and was
more dead than alive when he reached
there. He died an hour after reaching
the hospital. DR.. Sheeran stated last
evening that the character of Foley
injuries was necessarily fatal
Nothing has been learned here of the
dead man beyond that he came from
Anaconda and had a mother living at
Platte Center, Neb.
Vincent Rooney, the young son Of J.
Fl. Rooney. a bartender at Crowley's
Saiooi, III oOulll MdlH street, was at
the Montana Union depot when the
first section Of the soldiers train
came in from Silver Bow The crowd
on the platform OF the station was
very dense and the lad was in tie
front ranks. AS the train went by he
was crowded out and fell down between
the platform and the, train. One foot
Went under the wheels and he' was so
badly hurt it had to be amputated.
He was taken to the Sisters hospital,
where the amputation was made.
Phil Goodwin, circulator for the Min
Ell was painfully injured while on his
way to the race track. The car on
which he was riding was greatly
crowded and he was obliged to Lang
on the outside of the platform. There
was only room for one foot on the step
and the other hung loose. AS the car
was crossing the railroad tracks just
north of Ranchero park hack came
along and drove so close to the car
that Mr.. Goodwin's foot was caught
between the step and the hub of one
of the hack wheels and two bones Of
the instep were broken