Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-10-09

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The funeral is TO be held tomorrow af.
ternoon at O'Clock from the home at
Sherrard Burial will take place at the
cemetery at Orion.
The Rock Islands wrecker was TAX
en- to Presumption Saturday afternoon
TO clear the wreck. This is the second
time that the wrecker has been over
the Milan bridges, and the farthest it
has ever been on the Mercer county
line. Its first trip was made TO Taylor
Ridge last winter to clear the wreck
there.
The fireman of the wrecked train,
Ernest Pallas, of this city, is at St. An
thongs hospital. and is reported to be
doing as well as could be expected.
He received severe scalds from the es-
Gaping steam. and sustained number
of bruises. He was brought to Rock
Island Saturday afternoon on the spe-
cial
Crushed I'm Wreck.
Ray Mccullough, Davenport young
man, met instant death yesterday when
the Rock Island switch engine on
which he was stealing a ride was
wrecked at Fourth and Division streets.
Davenport. The wreck was caused by
the spreading of rails, and the engine
and tender and two cars were derailed.
The engine went down the embank-
ment. and was partly overturned. The
twisting of the engine from the tender
allowed an opening of escape for the
crew and companion of McCullough's
who was riding with him between the
tender and the first car, but young Nc
Cullough was crushed
Going to West Davenport.
Mccullough and his companion had
Tipped the train to ride to west Daven-
port, where the big shooting tourna-
ment was in progress. Frightened and
dazed by his own narrow escape and
the fate of Mccullough, his companion
ran to his home some blocks distant
he later told the story to the coroner's
jury.
The wreck occurred shortly before ?
o clock yesterday afternoon. Traffic
was blocked for some time. The scene
OF the wreck is just beyond the divis-
ion of the yard tracks from the main
line. The track is in the southwestern
division
Killed in Yards.
Peter Meyers, workman in the
New Shops yards, was instantly killed
yesterday morning about 1880 while at
work in the yards. He was standing on
a gravel ballast car, when the car was
struck by empties kicked from switch
engine. The jolt threw him from his
position, under the wheels of the car.
One truck passed over his body, crush
ing and exposing the abdomen and al
most cutting the body in two. Others
the floor, and John Wood. one of the
worllmen. was thrown to the ground,
just outside of the tracks.
The switching crew was in charge OF
J. c. Pratt, foreman. He said that
Meyers had been in his employ four
days, and had apparently been a care
ful man of good habits. Though the
cars were cut loose from the switch en-
CINE about 600 feet from the ballast
car, they were moving at high speed
when they struck.
Hold Inquest.
Coroner Eckhart was notified and
conducted an inquest at Watertown.
John Wood, who was working near
Meyers on the car at the time, testified
that he and Meyers had caught hold of
the rods on the car when the switch
men called to them that the cars were
coming. He said that Meyers was on
the opposite end of the car, holding to
the brake handle. Wood fell back onto
the platform, and on hearing the cries
of the injured man. he jumped to his
feet. and was thrown to the ground.
Two others on the car had also been
thrown down by the jilt of the cars.
Thomas Slettery, the engineer. tes-
titled that the men on the ballast car
had been warned that the cars were to
be switched on to the track. He sum
mOned DR.. j. II. Long after the acct,
dent, and assisted to eXtrcate Meyers
from under the wheels. Frank Haley,
another of those on the car, said that
it was Meyers who had called to him
to get hold of rod, that the cars were
coming.
The jury returned a verdict that
Meyers came to his death by being
run over, while attending TO his duties
in the yards. He was about AZ years
of and capna from, Cbioauo loo,