The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-12-28
STRUCK By TRAIN
jeremiah Bowen Met Sudden Death on
Fl. Wayne Tracks.
Was GOING Home FROM HIS WORK.
Without Warning lie Was. Run
Down by LOcomotive---Sur.
Wived Few Moments.

While hurrying home from work,
Christmas eve, thinking probably of
the merry greetings the morrow would
bring, jeremiah Bowen met sudden
death on the Pennsylvania railroad
tracks.
1t all occurred so suddenly that even
his son, who walked few feet ahead Of
Mr.. Bowen, was unaware that his own
father was the injured man until after
he had notified a friend that he thought
it was his. the friends, father who
had been injured.
Mr.. Bowen, in company with several
other men employed at the Saw works,
departed from the shop a few minutes
after 3 o'clock Monday evening. They
left the building by going through a
door leading into Rex street. Their
homes were in the eastern part of the
city, and they walked east on the rail-
road tracks. Mr.. Bowen walked a few
feet behind his companions and stopped
on the track used by the west bound
trains.
An approaching switch engine struck
him and hurled his body against a coal
car standing on a side track. The en-
gine ran as far east as the Cherry street
crossing before it was stopped. The
crew ran back and picked up the dying
man and carried him into the office of
the saw works. He gasped once for
breath and expired.
The men who had left the shop with
him heard the chung chung OF the en-
gine after the engineer had reversed
the lever and turned to see what had
occurred.
The son of Mr.. Bowen, being unaware
that his father was not one of those
gathered around the injured man, hur-
ried into the shop to find the son of the
man whom he thought had been Nruck.
After finding him he came ont and
found dinner basket which he recog-
nized as the one which his father car
ried. 1t was then that he learned that
his own father had been injured. BY
this time the injured man had drawn
his last breath.
An examination showed that BOwen's
right leg had been broken and the skull
on the right side of the head crushed.
The body was taken to Miller &
Blanchards morgue in an ambulance
and prepared for burial. Before taking
deceased in East North street and the
widow was notified of the sad accident.
The engineer on the locomotive said
that one of the brakemen who was
standing on the step on the head end,
had seen the man approaching in the
middle of the track and called to him
to get out Of the way. The switchman
was on the right hand side of the en-
gine and made an effort to get to the
other side thinking he could shove him
from the track, but the engine struck
the man before he could reach him.
The engine crew were coming in from
plant located in the west end of the
city. passenger train was due In O
few minutes and they were making an
effort to get out of its way.
Mr.. Bowen, thinking nothing would
come from the west on that track,
looked east, and seeing no train started
down the track.
He has walked on the track, to and
from work, hundreds of times and was
considered very careful man by his
fellow workmen. He was born in Stark
county sixty years ago. During the
Civil war he enlisted at Massillon and
served in the 104th, o. VI.
The deceased is survived by wife,
one daughter, Florence; one son, Man
las; three brothers and one sister, all of
whom live in or near Canton.
Funeral from the house, 1417 East
North street, at 1880 Thursday, Dec. 81.
Burial In Westlawn cemetery.