Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-10
BOY IS RUN over
BY FREIGHT TRAIN
CARL SHINES, AGED SIX, DIES
FROM MANGLlNG RECEIVED
At 5:45 LAST EVENING.
WAS "HOPPING" CARS.
Ernest Brooks, His Companion and
Only Eye Witness, Says Little Tot
Wanted to. Take Ride-Dled
at 12:45 This Morning.

The life of Carl Clay Shines, q little
tot of six years, was crushed out be-
Meath the wheels of Burlington
freight train, between Union and Vine
streets, at 5:45 o'clock last evening.
The boys was hopping" the cars for
a little ride and was hurled under by
the speed of the train. His left leg
was cut off at the hip and was found
after the accident, some distance
away, where 1t had been carried by the
train. The right leg was terribly
mangled from the knee down. Despite
the quick attendance of physicians, the
little fellows injuries proved fatal and
death claimed him at the Ottumwa
hospital at 12:45 this morning.
Carl was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. P. Shines, 71S East Main street. His
body will be taken to Lancaster, Mo-,
over the Wabash at a. m. tomorrow
where burial will be made. Coroner
A. w. Slaught will hold the inquest at
his office at Z O'Clock this evening.
The jury: George M. Diltz. George D..
Pierce and Hamilton Wilson, was en-
panelled this morning and viewed the
remains.
Little Friend Saw Him Crushed.
Coroner Slaught states that the only
eye. witness to the terrible tragedy was
Carl's little friend, Ernest Brooks,
aged nine The story told by him
shows that the little fellow was in
tending to take ride. Just previous
to the accident, crowd Of youngsters
we're playing in the sand near the new
Burlington freight depot. All but
Shines and Brooks left for the river.
When Burlington extra freight No,
soil came pulling west out of yards.
Shines said to Brooks:
Come on, let's hop it,
Brooks states that he said no, the
train was going too fast Shines, how
ever, made run for it. He seized
hold of the stirrup step on the bottom
of box car with the intention of
throwing his feet on the axle box.
The speed of the train, wrenched the
step free from his hands and the lit
tie fellow was rolled under the wheels.
Appalled, and frightened at the acct
dent, the Brooks boy states he ran
away. He had gone some distance
when he met a man whose name Cor
|Oner Slaught has not vet learned. He
told him of the accident. The man
rushed to the mangled form Of the
boy and when directed by Brooks to
the Shines home, carried him tnere.
Physicians were summoned without
delay, who rushed the boy to the hos
pital. There they worked, endeavor-
ing to save his life, without avail.
The little tot was conscious until the
approach Of death.
Investigation by the Burlington off
Gals show that the train crew was
ignorant of the accident For time
1t was not known with certainty what
train the boy attempted to board Elk
tras SOIL and 2081, the latter going
east. passed each other at the point
of the accident.
Night Captain Jack Smith states
that the little fellows of that neighbor-
hood have been in the habit Of hopping
trains as they pulled in and out Of
the c. B. & @. yards and that he has
seen them on several occasions and
taken care of them.
He Is survived by his father and
mother, two sisters and one brother.
Mrs. Charles knight, Pearl and
Charlie Stiles.