Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-29
Most Agonizing End Comes to
Frank NJ. Taylor Thursday
Night
EXPERIENCED LIVING DEATH
With Both Legs and Hands Crushed
OF, Man is Rational Unto the End
Went Under Car to Escape
Drenehins, and !. Caught When
Switch Engine Starts to Move Car.

came TO FRANK NJ. Idyfor, al Iowa
Central section hand, living at SO;
& Woodbury. street, at about 8 o'clock
Thursday night. Two and one-hal1
hours before Taylor was crushed I'M
der = loaded box car when a switch
engine went to take out the car. Tay-
lor and others had taken refuge under
the car when the heavy shower came
up at about $3.50, and altho warned
Of the engines approach Taylor failed
to get out In time.
The unfortunate man lived his last
hours in the very face of death. His
right leg was terribly crushed so far
up into the body that a hipjoint ampu-
tation would have been Impossible il
advisable. The left leg was also
crushed at about the same point, altho
not quite so badly. The right hand
was an unrecognizable mass Of mashed
bone and muscle, and hung to the arm
BY a few shreds OF skin. The left
hand was also badly crushed.
Or. N. E. Mighe'll. the company sur
geon. hurried to Master Mechanic
Feeley,s Office, where Taylor was taken
and did what he could to alleviate the
eman's sufferings by hypodermic in
jeetions OF morphine. Coroner Nichols
assisted DR.. .Mighell at Taylor's home,
where the man was removed in an
ambulance. 1t was agreed by both
surgeons that the only course to pur-
sue was to stop the flow Of blood as
best they could, and administer Opt
ates to relieve the poor fellows suffer-
ings. Is;
Deathhed Scene Most Pitiful.
The deathbed scene was most pitt
fuf TO behold. DR.. MigheN told Tay-
lor tlhat he was badly injured, and
that Il he wanted to talk to his wife
and family he had better do so at
once. The wife. married daughter, and
little children Of the doomed man were
admitted, and thu surgeons retired
while prayers were offered up to a
merciful God that he would care for
the one who was about to face him.
Taylor asked for the prayers of his
wife and daughter, and between the
sobs Of breaking hearts the blessings
OF an Omnipitent Father were sought.
The dying man :Idmonished his chill
dren to be good boys and girls, and to
work and help ono another. The lit
tle children begged their papa not to
die, and the tiny babe, held by its
older sister, cooed and crowed, think
in8 the commotion was being created
for its benefit
4 Taylor fingered until almost o'clock
when death relieved his sufferings.
Leaves Large Family.
Mr.. Taylor leaves a family Of eight
children, three of whom are married.
born in Van Buren, county Feb. IL,
1854. He came to this city three years
ago from Sey1nout, Wayne county. He
had been married thirty years, and
became the father Of twelve children,
four Of whom are dead. The living
children are MRS. George Gregg, Of
this city; Mrs. Louis Corners, OF Pc
oria, ILL.,: Mrs. Charles Black, OF Os-
kaloosa; Miss Hazel Taylor, of Os-
kaloosa; Frank, aged 49,; Ada, aged
10: Almeda, aged 10; and Baby Gilbert. |
Mr.. Taylor is also survived by two
sisters, Mrs. L. Allen, OF Seymour;
Mrs. 8. Marks, whose place OF resi-
denoe Is unknown; and by a brother,
Taylor. who lives near Keo-
k,ik.
Mr.. Taylor was a member of the
First Baptist church of this city. The
funeral will be held from the residence
1t 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, con-
/. -. -. p. p Il
rfding Mr.. MCGEE reaches the city from
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