The daily sentinel., 1908-09-26
NEAR SEVERED FINGER
STOOD A FLASK OF WHISKEY
Body of Well Dressed Man Found
Near the City Was Evidently Run
Over by Two Trains IDENTIFY
Mystery

Literally torn to pieces as result
of being run over by AT least two
trains, evidently having fallen from
one of the trains while in an intoXi-
Gated condition. the remains of an
unknown man were found this morn
ing at an early hour lying near the
main line of the Denver & Rio
Grande tracks, at a point about
thirty-five miles east of Grand June
tion and at a point just short dis
tance west of the railway station at
DeBeque.
Coroner Day of this city. was noti-
fled and he left for DeBeque this af
ternoon 10 examine and take charge
of the body of the unfortunate trav-
eler. the body has been taken into
the town of DeBequc.
The body was in horrible con-
dition. The left arm was torn off
at the shoulder. the left foot was
crushed TO pieces, and the rlgnt foot
was off at the ankle. There WAS a
terrible hole on the side of the head
and on many other parts of the body
there were ugly cuts and frightful
bruises Any of dozen injuries re-
ceived by the man would have
proved fatal
Not far from the body was found
a whiskey flask two-thirds full and
lying near the bottle was a finger
severed from the body of the man.
There seems to be no doubt that the
bottle fell from the pocket of the
man.
The only thing on the body that
might lead to an early identification
of the dead man is an envelope,
badly torn. but with this much of an
address, Williams" ON the back of
it. In the return corner OF the en-
velope is the formal statement re-
turn to "- Rogers, Salida, Colo
rado, after five days"
The man appears to have been be-
tween 80 and IS years of age,
medium height, dark hair. short dark
mustache. weighed probably so or
16O pounds. Was dressed in a plain
suit of dark clothes, apparently not
much worn. He wore an almost new
hat with $500 mark inside but no
name. Under a heavy black shirt
the man was wearing a comparative
ly nice black and white dotted shirt.
His hands did not indicate that he
was used to hard labor and yet he
did not have the appearance of be
ing an ordinary hobo. The man is
unknown in or around DeBeque as
far as can be ascertained.
1t would seem that the man was
r1d1nS, perhaps On liit Diihu pdS-
gage of one of the night trains fell
off or was knocked off and some of
the cars of that train passed over his
body Mr. Gooch. of DeBeque. with
whom The Sentinel talked over the
telephone and who had viewed the
Scene where the body was found and
who had examined the body, states
that il looks as If one train going
west had passed over the body. leav-
ing ii in the middle Of the track. then
another train had struck the body
and carried it about 100 feet down
the track. leaving it just outside the
rails where il was found. This theory
seems plausible for the reason that
at point in the middle of the track
about 100 feet from where the body
was found is a large pool of blood
to all appearances where the body
had lain for some time.
There was but little money found
in the pockets of the dead man $
clothes outside of the badly torn
envelope that might lead to his
Identification.
Coroner Day will not reach De-
Beque until late today.