Arizona republican., 1905-07-03
4 HORRIBLE DEATH
A Tempe Mexican Crushed by a Train
 Early Yesterday Morning.

The returning NJ & P. excursion train to Tempe early yesterday morn ing struck a Mexican. near Knights store m East Tempe. and the man was literally ground to fragments. About 5:3O a fellow cOuntryman coming into town along the track came upon the scattered remains of the unfortunate aEd reported the matter to the au- tho Iities.
 The man was horribly mangled. Ap- parer.tly his head had been struck first, for it was split clear in two, the nose being left on the left side of the face. The body. it seems had then been turned, for the wheels had again Tassed over the face, crushing the Jaws and severing the head from the tody at the neck. Both shoulders were crushed and the arms were cut off. The upper part of the body was ground into an almost unrecognizab bIe mass of flesh. blood and dirt, and the lower limbs had both been run over. There was enough left of the face and body however. so that friends identi- fied the man as Caledonia Lopez, a Mexican quite we'll known about town.
 The remains were gathered together as Lest they could be in a box and tub and were conveyed to Moore's under taking parlors. where the inquest was held at o'clock. Justice Nelson ap- pointed the following cOroner's jury: C. J. Turner, G. R. Finch. James NoDeIy, T. C.. Cartledge, F. G. BrCchen and B. O. Brown. They ex- amined what witnesses they could find who knew anything regarding the mat ter, and cs the M & P. train went up fr,.m Phoenix ha-e at 9 o'clock on it's RGvs
 Pheips. and the conductor, MT. Sparks, Were also examined. The engineer tes- tifed that it was 1925 that morning whpT the train passed the point of the accident, and at that time they wcre running at a speed not exceeding six
 pr eIght miles an hour.
 He had known nothing whatever aI.ClIt the accident until he had been summoned here to stop at the inquest as he passed through Tempe on the re-
 tu.n trip to Mesa. He had, however,
 noticed blood on the left side of the engine as he was leaving in the morn ing but it not being his regular en-
 zine. ne thought the engine had struck a COW or something on the track while he was not using it. He was sure of his rate of speed, for the reason that he
 was g-Ing slow in order to give the santa Ee excursion tram, Just ahead, an opportunity to make the intersec- ton of the two tracks first Conduc- tor Sparks corroborated the statements
 of the engineer, and the two were dis missed and. permitted to go on to
 Mesa. Others testified to having seen the victim of the accident the night
 before in a slightly intoxicated cOndi- ton. and he was last seen in East Tempe about 11:3O o'clock The sup
 position is that the man, having be-
 come thoroughly intoxicated, had started to % home, but had fallen | asleep on the track. It is said that he
 had done the same thing once before and was aroused just in time to avoid similar accident.
 The jury rendered a verdict eXoner- atinS the railway but at the same time recommending that both roads pay
 more attention to the speed ordinance while passing through the city. They a'su took occasion to criticize the re- cent action of the city council in pass | ing an ordinance prohibiting the whist hng of engines within the city linn, ts
 il being their opinion that perhaps the | accident would not have happened had
 a warning been sounded by the enF-r" | As it was. the man was lying directly on curve, where the headlight of the engine did not show the track but z l fe,,, faa+ sr7 front Tho remains of in