Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-08-21
SOLDIER KILLED; Asr.Ix, :.
 TRACK.
(Irsa fhursday's Dsuy,


 After a night of carousal in ..,..., of the resorts in the city, in wbi.h ovcr-indulged in the flowing h.., ~ Theodore J. Roland, a corno,d Troop l. of the Fifth cavalry VI toned at Fort wingate, lay down (, sleep on sidetrack in the Srp ', P. railway yards, and was rpr .. and instantly killed, yesterday mo,. ing at 5:30 o'clock.
 His head and left arm were ,,r crushed into jelly, the latter hon. severed at the wrist by the h;,, trucks of the tender of engine No ,s which passed over him, and unde,n..,l which he was found only a momen, :, ter the accident. life being then Q, tinct.
 Deceased was a horseshocr by trad, and had only one month and two a,v. of his enlistment to serve. He VI, native of Toledo, Ohio, and va. v,r popular among tho other member, q, his company. He told som. ,f hi. ,o, panions, Tuesday night, that ne hx been promised place in Frank A,. drews' horscshoeing establishment. n soon as his enlistment expired. and that he intended to make Prescott, Nj, future home.
 Tuesday, Corporal Roland, with |, few other comrades Of the For, wAi, pie garrison, camc to the city, and i, visiting the different resorts induls.d too freely in liquor. The carousal vr continued until the early hours of M. morning. when all started to return .o | the fort.
 When the Depot hotel was reached Roland and another trooper lay dOvr on the sidewalk to sleep. Just before : o'clock Night Officer Lane aroused them from their slumbers and informed them that it was time to return to th. garrison.
 The official interference of the ofi,g was somewhat resented by the de ceased. who left in the direction of whipplc, passing through the depot. When he reached a point near the north end of the yards, he lay down to take another nap, and less than thirty minutes later was run over by the hind trucks of Engine No. l6, which wn being placed on the track by Nigh, Hostlcr Louis LcBarr, to await the arrival of the northbound pssyengsr, which it was booked to pull to Asa Fork.
 When the night hostler arrived at th. switch in the north end of the yafd,, immediately before the accident, hi, helper stepped from the engine ani threw the switch. He backed in On the sidetrack, and stopped his engine in the usual place, the presence of th' sleeping man, who was on the left side of the track, being unknown to him.
 After stepping from the engine, Hostlcr LeBarr saw the prostrate form of the man lying alongside the track, with his mead and left arm pinionei underneath the hind trucks He imms. diately stepped on the engine and whistlcd for his helper, who responded, and the engine was moved and the body released, but the soldier was dead
 The body was removed to the under taking parlors of Maus ( Shannon, where an inquest was held at l o'clock in the afternoon, the coroner's jary r' turning a verdict that deceased met h, death while lying asleep in an intO1l' cated condition, and holding the s. F.. r. < P. Railroad company bamelss for the accident.
 Later in the afternoon the remains were removed to Fort whipple, to h prepared for intermsnt, which win tsts place this morning in the post cem'' tery, at Q o'clock. Deceased was aged about 33 years.