Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-24
KILLED BY TRA|h')|
No, SO Strikes francesca
Fi|it, Saturday Morning. !
Was Italian laborer on the,
Augusta Rines Hill Gut.
No Blame Attached to Maine Gen.
trail or Employees.

Francesca t'ilt. one of the Italian
laborers employed by the Fletcher
Lahey Co. in the excavation work at
Rines hill, was struck by Train y? OF
the Maine Central Railroad, which
goes east from Augusta at 6.36 A. NJ,
a short distance north of the foot of
Capitol street Saturday morning, and
instantly killed. f'iliti was 81 years
Of age and has Il family in Italy. Fun
eral services will be held at st. Mary's
Catholic church at o'clock this
morning and the intcrment will be
made in st. Marys cemetery.
The accident occurred at about $50.
F'iliti and other members of the gang
had left their shack, which is located
on the river bank at a point about OPP
posite the foot of Capitol street, and
had come up over the bank to the
railroad tracks, along which they were
walking on their way up to Rines hill.
When Train SO came along on its way
from South Gardiner to Bangor in
charge of Conductor Hall and En-
gineer Marquis, FILTH was walking
along at the east side of the eastbound
track and had reached point about
100 feet north of the shack. AS the
train approached the man made a move
as If to cross over to the Westbound
track, and although warning whistles
were sounded and the emergency brake
applied the train could not be stopped
in time, and the forward part of the
locomotive. probably the pilot beam
struck Filiti, throwing him about so
LIZ, D.
toward the river.
The train was stopped and men hur-
ried down over the bank to the I'M
fortunate mans assistance, but he was
dead when picked up, probably having
been killed instantly. He had receiv-
ed cuts and bruises on the left side
of the head and the left leg was brok-
en- short distance above the ankle
Inc body was placed on the train and
Drought to the Augusta station, and
Telephone messages had in the mean
tline been sent out for surgeons, the
ambulance and the coroner
The remains were soon afterward
taken to the undertaking rooms of
Trouant & Bates. and later in the
morning Coroner H. w. Plummer en-
''ie ioiio lilS jury. w 1llldM
u. Moody. foreman: Charles 3. Mur-
phy, Benz. B. Wentworth, D, Frank
Moore. Albert c. Brown and John 4
buckley. After viewing the remains
the jury visited the scene of the acct
dent, after which an adjournment was
taken until o'clock in the afternoon.
when an inquest waS held bv Coroner
RUNNER at the kennebec county
courthouse
The witnesses We're few in number
and at the conclusion of the innuest
the verdict rendered by the jury was
as follows:
That the said Francesca F'iliti came
to his death by coming in contact with
engine on Train SO, Maine Central r.
X. on the eastbound track between
Hallowell and Augusta, near Capitol
street, Augusta. and that said Fran
cesco filiti was not using due pre-
caution: and that engineer of Train
~ gave warning signals and used the
brakes as in emergency and that We
ma no blame to be attached to En-
gincer Louis Marquis or the Maine
central Railroad for his death.
HENRY w. PLUMMER. Coroner
WILLIAM G. MOODY, Foreman.
JOHN A. BUCKLEY.
3. B. WENTWORTH.
CHARLES B. MURPHY
ALBERT G. BROWN.
+. FRANK MOORE.