The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-08

| again, they picked up two more cars.
They then pulled out to the switch and
| went on another track for another car
Just before stopping at this time the
rear brakeman asked, What is that
lying there?" They went to see, and
| found it was man lying on the track.
| Witness did not know the man. An
| officer was Immediately notified. Wit
ness saw a track in the snow showing
! where the man had been dragged 300 or
| 400 feet Witness had no theory as to
how the accident occurred. When the
| body was found it was lying across the
! rail. Witness did not think the body
had been placed on the track, but that
| the cars ran over it.
Peter Derham, engineer in the en-
| ploy of the B., A. & p. was running
the engine. He knew nothing of the
accident beyond having been told
man had been killed. He did not think
his engine passed over the body. He
thought there would have been blood
on the wheels if the engine had gone
over the body of a man crushed as
badly as deceased was.
Michael Madden, fireman on the en-
gine. was called, bat said he knew
nothing of the accident. Like the engi-
neer. the witness did not believe it pos
sibe Harris was killed by the engine.
E. F. Vincent, brakeman on the train.
dent. He felt a jar on the brake beam
and looking down, saw what he took to
be. the body of man. He got off the
car and found it was The body laid
face down across the rail. Witness
spoke to the conductor and called po-
liceman The crew then went on with
their work. When backing into the
Great Northern yards before the dis
covery of the accident the witness did
not see any one on the cars. Witness
gave it as his opinion that the man
tried to get on the train while it was
in motion, and in some way fell under
the wheels. Witness, in making an
examination, found a track showing
where the body had been dragged a
considerable distance in the snow.
William A. Dugan, a brakeman. when
called declined to be sworn, and said
he would affirm that what he said was
the truth. He thought the wheels
passed over the body. He did not see
any one on the cars prior to the acct
dent nor about the tracks. He had
no theory as to how the accident oc-
Cured. 1t might have occurred in any
one of a great many different ways.
Witness did not believe it possible the
engine or the other cars except the
last one on the train could have gone
over the body for the reason that in
his examination he found blood and
none on the other wheels. Witness saw
the track in the snow where the body
was dragged.
Thomas Needham. section hand in
the employ of the Great Northern, said
the deceased worked on the section for
three or four months with him. He
knew him as Eli. The deceased left the
section house the morning before his
death. When he came back he had
been stabbed, the witness heard Wit
ness never noticed anything peculiar in
the mans actions. Witness saw de-
ceased last at the dinner table Mon
day.
John Penny knew the deceased as
Eli Harris, a section hand. He never
saw anything peculiar in his actions.
Witness saw deceased last on Friday
or Saturday last Witness had heard
Harris was going up town Monday
morning and was stabbed by mistake.
All witness knew of this was what he
had been told by his wife, who con-
ducts the boarding house for the Great
Northern section men, and who over
heard some of the men talking of the
stabbing.
James Washburn, a section hand said
Harris went UP town Monday morning
shortly before daylight after some med