The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-01
life Full Of !
!. TRAGIC EVENTS !
Much Maimed$R Railroad EngitnrseseirSSSB
WI Became Successful
Y N Novelist. sSsS M
EVEN Hts DEATH DRAMATIC
Crushed, Struck by Lightning timing,
Burned by Electric Wire, %
Genius 81 the Pen. sss SssshI

CANTON, PA, June sS S0.---11Thers - D.
Just been buried at 8Leolyn the body SSossssA
man whose life vas as full OF thu #tfastss
sHas though he had bsen8aa ch6Nac tars tnssaA
story book. IT vas that Of Matthew D Az
SCourseys who, on Tuesday morniinE 49, n
found dead lii tile bed Sof Frozen SA u!iis
and umbrella lay on the abptnhent. of q
middle bridge on which, Northern
Central Railroad CROSSES Froxen a nssS%$#s
n autopsy showed that there wsrS9
no bruises upons%the& body, 10 Z a%lhsS
could not have been struck tby att adartt..SS
And tho lungs we're without water. 9 hoWs
ing thai respiration had &ceassd sEhefo q
$DeCourseS.'s body reached the streAIa
The doctors who made tile autopsy EaxsesSs
lis al Their. opinion that death had ,scen,Sa
quick as 4 wink while the man W s1tt:-sss
ting on the bridge Sablltrnent 81 sraOklnSs
and that he toppled into the stream
III swas sad but fitting close of $h l
strange life. 8Ss@sssss
sE8$ Thies death Of De coursey,ssw VIC past ffiftyss
years of age occurred almost wtthihnss
sight OF $theSplace where he va hornss
and IN 4 \ hat = 9 oyer N halt al e silllIxss
he had travelled half the world SwcnE
fame caped & death remarkably SaN half
dozen times andEwas, on the arncrninEs}sof
his death. on his way to Ralston ~
take@a train forG his home a. iWashiinnss
.. C,a#5&& s@$F S5f9s$s S8ssssE
When BIT a youth Decourssy$swas$ IN.
Sployedg as & brakeman @on b NorthSru
$Centra1 sRa1lroad. &1nt5anSacctdsnt healost1
two gers. $S n less than year. M
his right foot.f He e West willis
yet a yotnmss man. Il G and In time was srexAs
gagged al an engIneer en- Tho Union
Pacific railroad .8SSW While thus employed
engine wac struck by lightning AaAgG9
$h1eeSSwass 30 badly Bhucke d that for time
it was nip and tuck betweaesnsS$ iifs An
death. aeaSS4 s# % $8ss 81
Reeoyearsingg Re returned Alini,,tdi East ana bs \
came n$$engineer on,sa railroad runnnTiile
into washington q q wire
charged with electricity because ertaAnt.Ss
glad about his engine, and before hs
could ihee stopped DeCorseysShad %graspedal
to rernov ZIG. He was terribly
burned and shocked Es o b II wa
forty-eights hours before fe.s RECOVERED
consciousness Nextahls own engineSSEnns
his leg, and crushed his right q
OFF at the ankle. This ended Hhfs railss
road career .gsSS$S s#s9M ssSsss#S 8s ~
He had ways . Of a littssrary1a8ttu r rii
of mind, having written succesfullySsfGp Ill
GONE OF the neWspapers.$S story ssbyl
him attracted a prominent magazine8pubss
fisher, who sought him out and induced!
him o$wrtte "a novel. He did so,Senss
5titling the story SONS % the KedSSRose."'s
THE story dealt with railroad lifesssalt
was SO srafpahicf In description and.S 6
Skeenly imaginat live that. after the PUBL
cation 55of the story BY NEWSPAPER syn
sdicate Il prominent New Yorker bought
the copyright The sale ffof the a. 3
is reported to have been large 1000
copies being sold In Buffalo alone sstat8S
.S5H next became associated asSa writer
with one OF the washington newspapers.
finally becomlng interested with Eugene
SDebs Iii q proposition to- publish q ma
tional socialist newspaper But his health
OF the country to arecuperate,,3 and having
improved very materially he was on hts AZ
way to- aHtrain to go back to Washing
ton when death overlook him. 5SS@