Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-01
Victim Of the Accident Alone
to Blame
DIED FROM LOSS OF BLOOD
While Being Removed From the Jail
to the Hospital some
Recommendations,

~OioHer fElI Julien nelu an inquest
last evening on the remains OF Fl. d. Nc
Leod, the young man who was run over
by a B.. A. & p. freight train at Silver
Bow junction, Monday night, and re.
ceived injuries from which he died early
Tuesday morning.
The jury was taken to Silver Bow dur
ing the day, looked over the scene of the
accident and several witnesses were eX-
amined.
John Fl. Callahan, a cook, testified that
about IL o'clock Monday night he and sew
eral others heard a man call out: For
Gods sake, come and help mel" He ran
out to the track n found a man had
been run over. He was removed to a sa-
loon, where his injuries We're dressed
roughly. About half an hour after he
was hurt he was removed to Butte. h
man said his name was H.. d. Mcleod,
and that he had attempted to board the
train, when his foot caught under a tie
and he was thrown under the car. The
testimony of William Campbell, a fire.
man, John Harnett and George e. Rogers
was corroborativc.
Edward Gavin. proprietor Of the sa-
loon in which the injured MAPS injuries
We're dressed, testified that Mcleod told
those who were attending hin that his
home was in Canada, but would not give
the name of the town, as he said he did
not a his people to know of what had
happened to him.
The testimony of George Smith was
similar to that of Gavin. He was of the
opinion that two hours elapsed between
the time of the accident and the arrival of
the injured man at the county Jail.
Emery O.. Smales, driver Of the county
ambulance, said he took Mcleod from
the Jail to the county hospital Tuesday
morning. He had to wait an hour n a
half to set the patient, and when he was
brought out he was dying, and told Jailer
Pishkur of his condition, but Pishkur told
him to take him out, that he did not want
him to die in the Jail. When he arrived
at the poor farm the man was dead.
DR.. p. J. Sheeran, county physician,
said Mcleod was in a state of collapse
when he reached the county Jail. He said
the accommodations at the county Jail
were such that the man could not be prop
erly treated, and remarked that an cmer-
gency ward and ambulance should be
maintained by the county.
The verdict of the Jury was as follows:
"That the deceased came to his death
at or near the county poor farm of SilveA
Bow county, Montana, on the Goth day of
May, 1899, from shock and hemorrhage &c,
produced by injuries caused by the SAID
deceased being run over by a train on the
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railway a,
Silver Bow, in said county and state, on
the Goth day of May, 1899, while attempt
ing to steal a ride on the said train, and
from the evidence we. the jury, further
find the said railroad was in re
manner responsible for the death Of sait
deceased. .
"While disclaimtng any intention to re.
feet on the county physician we, the jury
desire to express the opinion that the cir.
cumstances surrounding the death of -
said Fl. D. Mcleod, as shown by the tcs-
timony, Justify the jury in urging the ne
cessity of an emergency hospital n am
bulance in Butte, maintained by the
county or city government, or BOTH"