The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-28
TRAIN KILLS
 DIR. JOHNS Tragic Ending of Tro
 Citizen. HIT BY COAST LINE ENGINE Was Prominent in Affairs of Pike
 County. Funeral of Confederate Solder wnf Take Place in Troy To-Dsy With Masonic ssd Pythisn
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HIT BY COAST LINE ENGINE

Troy, Aug. 27.--(Special. 1--Tne city was greatly shocked just before . o'clock this morning when the runncr spread that Dr. Edward H. Johnson had been run down by train and badly hurt. The rumor was soon con- Armed and two hours later the. xnr rowfuI news was given out that pr. Johnson had succumbed to his i'm juries.
 Dr. Johnson had call to visit . pa tient at Oakland Heights halt a mile northeast of the business section and his horse being disabled started on foot. He reached the Jolly crossing as the fast Coast Line train from Montgomery was approaching. Some how he stumbled and fell on the track and before he could revover and get off the engine caught his foot, crush ing it and throwing him against the end of croBstie.
 The engineer saw him fall and re- versed the engine and put on brakes, but was unable to stop the train un- Ill too late. The train brought the Injured man back to the station. hav- ing summoned medical aid by teIs- phone. A number of physicians has, tened to the assistance of their un- fortunate brother.
 collapse seemed to threaten pr. Johnson at the station, but he was revived and removed to hts home, where about an hour later. in the presence of family and friends. death ended hts suRerings.
 Dr. Johnson was the local surgeon for the Atlantic Coast Line and when news came to tfle city that someone had been hurt by the train he was sought to so to the relief of the ln- Jured person.
 ed than pr. Johnson. He was a bln- hearted. genial gentlemen and had a large circle of devoted friends not only In Troy, but through out this sec-i ton of Alabama. He was a native of Troy, haarinE been born here July s7, ls45. when the place was q village only few yessFs old
 Ills father, sO B Jahnsan. eelnnbes te what ts now crenshaw naunis though then tae western part of Pike county, sometime before the war. Here the youiFg man graw to man hcods estate, lad while 5At ostT in- youth In May. dSe2, he v0lanteeraaon a soldier of the south, serving h Coat pany p, 56th Alabama Regiment ana 1865.
 For a number of years he resided at Rutledge. practicing his profession. but came back to hts native town to live in 1888. Some years ago he went into the drug business with his son in-law, Arthur Crouch, under the firm name of Johnson and Crouch
 Dr. Johnson married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Chapman, sister of R. B, Chapman. of this city in 1889. Mra. Johnson has been dead several years. Five children survive, two sons. pr. Wiil Johnson, of Dothan, ana Robert E. Johnson. of Troy, and three dauRh- ters. Mrs. Arthur Crouch. and Missek Mae Johnson and Abbis Johnson.
 pr. Johnson was for many yeara member of the Methodist Episconai Church. and was also a Mason. ioin- ing that order in 1871. He was for six years Worshipful Master of ths lodge at Rutledge and afterwarda held the same position in the Troy lodge for three years. He also belong cd to the Knights of Pythias and once held the highest oface in the local lodge.
 The funeral will take place to-nor- row. and, will be conducted by Rev. J. B. K. Spain and o. s. Welsh as- sisted by the local orders of which he was a prominent member.