The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-10
GROUND
BY WHEELS
Man gIed Remains
Found on the
Track.
An Oahu Train Ran
Over Someone
Unknown.
A Horribly MutiIated Body Dis
covered by Young Native
Boys.

In the Henry Williams undertaken
bones-bones chewed into fragment
and flesh crushed into pulp. 1t wa
brought to the undertaking rooms lat
| last night, tied up like a bundle o
washing in a blanket. The grewsom
| thing is what remains of a man wh'
met a frightful death on the railwa!
embankment between IwiIei and Ka
lihi camp. For about two hundred
and sixty feet the train is supposed tt
| have carried the mans body along
dropping pieces of bone, flesh and
clothing at every pace or two.
The unknown is supposed to have
been killed by the seven-thirty train
from Pearl City last evening. Tt is
supposed that he was walking out or
the railway track to the Kalihi camp
and that he was intoxicated when he
met the train The engineer of the
train could not have known of the
frightful accident for he drove his
cars straight into town and made nc
stop until the railway station was
reached.
About eight o'clock John Brooks, a
native boy. and two companions were
walking along the embankment.
Brooks says that he was on his way
to the Kalihi camp to see his grand
mother. The boys noticed something
white between the tracks. They light
ed match and saw that the white OBJ
ject seen was a part of the clothing of
a mang1ed corpse. They at once came
into town and told the police. Deputy
Sheriff Chillingworth officer Renear,
Undertaken Williams and others went
to the scene at once. What was left
intact of the body lay between the
and was empty. The lower portions
of the arms had been pulled off. The
legs had been chopped in two at the
knees and fearfully mangled. Shoes
had been torn from the feet but pair
of black stockings, striped with red
yarn We're still on and the feet them
selves were but little bruised. Then,
for distance of two hundred and
sixty feet down the track, were found
pieces of flesh and bones. In one place
a portion of the skull was found. In
another place were suspenders and
portions of clothes, and farthest
towards Kalihi was found a hat. The
remains were bundled into blanket
and sent into town.
Undertaken Williams in examining
the trunk of the body between the rails
stated that he found the trousers
pockets turned inside out, indicating
that perhaps the body had been rob-
bed after the accident.
It may be difficult to identify the
deceased. He certainly cannot be
identified by viewing the remains but
may be by examining the shreds of
left. The man wore a light
colored felt hat, with a band consisting
of shell lei. His trousers and coat
were both of black material, and his
shirt was of white linen.
Deputy Sheriff Fernandez, of Eva,
who came into Honolulu on the 1880
train, said that the train made no stop
1T the place where the mans body was
found.
An inquest over the remains will be
leld by the Coroner this morning.
WAS THERE FOUL PLAY?
Late last night persons acquainted |
With the circumstances of the railway
lccident advanced the theory that the |
Unknown met his death by foul means.
They point to the fact that his pockets |
we're turned inside out as if he had |
'een robbed before being murdered |
md that he was dragged along the
enter of the track for such a long dis |
ance. They hold the theory that the
stranger was first attacked and stun
led, robbed and then thrown in front /
# the fast approaching train. Had /
he man been standin when the en-
line struck him his body would prob
lbly have been thrown free of the
rack but if he were lying down on the
rack the engine would have passed
ver him and some of the machinery
licked him up and crushed him on the
ails and rocky road bed as the train |
raveled along.