The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-13
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TERRIBLE DEATH
J. J. O'COnnOr Killed Yesterday
While Working Near The
Smelter.
HEAD CRUSHED INTO A MASS
Third Son to Meet a Violent Death
During Past Two
HEAD CRUSHED INTO A MASS

In Salt Lake City Is a mother who,
during the past two years, has heard
the terrible news of the tragic death
of two of her sons, and now must
again hear the heart-rending mes
sage that another of her boys has
been torn from her and that the
hand of death was even more cruel
in grasping him than in taking away
her other boys. The loss of one
child is said to make the living even
dearer to the mother, SO the death
of the third will certainly prove IL
terrible blow to Mrs. Anna O'Connor
The deceased was J. J. O'Connor, q
brakeman employed by the Nevada
Northern. O'Connor was attempting
to make a coupling yesterday after
noon when he was caught between
the tender and some timbers that
were extending over the fiat ear, his
head being crushed into an nnrecog-
niZable mass.
O'Connor was standing on the
back end of the tender of engine No.
3, as the latter was coursing down
the switch at Smelter that extends to
the. concentrator. The fiat ear was
ahead of him and he did not notice
until it was too late for him to jump
that some heavy timbers were ex-
tending over the end of the car. The
brakemans head was pinned between
the tender and the timbers and when
the engineer discovered what had
happened he started forward and the
lifeless body rolled to the ground
Death had been instantaneous. His
countenance had been mashed until
it presented a terrible sight.
A message was sent to Cobre yes
terday notifying the mother of the
deceased of what had befallen him.
On account of the telegraphers
strike 1t was impossible to send the
dispatch straight through, so ii was
mailed at Cobre. One can but i'm
agine the scene when the heartbrok-
en- mother opens the epistle and
reads the terrible news. Three times
during the past two years she will
have received such missiles and each
blow was harder than the one pre-
ceding 1t. Surely. this good woman
has had more than her share of trou-
BILE and surely she is deserving of all
the sympathy that her neighbors in
the Utah city can give her
The family's history reads like
some tragedy. In fact it is nothing
more than a tragedy in real life with
the mother the victim of cruel cir
cumstances. With one son killed in
railroad accident, with another
killed by the accidental discharge of
gun, and with her third son meet
ing a fate similar to the first, this
poor woman has had much more
than her share of sorrow and trou-
BILE.
Charles O'Connor was killed at
Hammond, Ind, in 1893. He was
breaking on the Erie railroad when
he met with an accident that resulted
In his death. Charles was the Oldest
son and the next Oldest was Holden,
who was killed in fight at Rock
Springs, Wyo., in 1900. During the
fight gun was accidentally dis
charged and he met instant death.
With the death of John O'Connor
there remains but one son, who Is
now in Mexico.
Mrs. O'Connor keeps the Knuts-
ford house in Salt Lake, and with her
lives her daughter Martha. John
O'Connor came to Ely three or four
months ago and worked f6 while
for Mr.. Langley, the local plumber.
He received a job as brakeman on
the Nevada Northern about month
ago and has been working at Smelter
Before coming here he worked al
Salt Lake on the San Pedro road.
J. W. Kelly. a close friend OF the
deceased brakeman, leaves TINS
morning with the body. tie Will ac-
company it to the home Of the de-
ceased's mother. Those who knew
O'Connor speak in the highest ol
terms of him.