Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-12-25
WAS
KILLED. BY
TRAIN
W.. 3. HECTOR FALLS UNDER
FREIGHT TRAIN AT COLLEGE
STATION AND MEETS IN
STANT DEATH-RODE
FREIGHT TRAIN.

| w. B. Hector, student at the A. G.
M. College, was instantly killed We'd
nesday night at Z o'clock, when in at
tempting to alight from rapidly
moving H. & T. c. freight train at
College Station he lost his footing and
was thrown under the wheels of the
train. The body was discovered a
few minutes later by Cadets Williams
and Palmer, who were on the train
with Hector but who alighted safely.
Hector and the two other cadets
were among the lis boys at the col
| lege who for various reasons could
| not go home for the holiday season.
He had been working during the holi-
days with the expectation of making
enough money to meet his incidental
expenses during the next term of
school. Wednesday afternoon the
boys came to Bryan on the Central
passenger train and intended to re-
turn home on the trolley. The inter
urban ran no cars after 11:30 O'Clock
Wednesday. however, and so the boys
had to look elsewhere for transporta-
ton. They finished their Christmas
shopping and were planning to go
home on the |. & G. n. That train
which is due to leave Bryan for Col
lege was bulletined indefinitely late"
however and inasmuch as the Hustler
does not stop, the boys had no way
Of getting home. Shortly after 6
O'Clock Central freight left for the
south. According to Williams. one of !
the trainmen assured Hector. Palmer
and himself (Williams) that the train
would stop at College and accepted a
fare of fifty cents from the trio.
When the train reached the depot at
College it was travelling at a some
what fast rate. Hector attempted to
alight. but Williams and Palmer rode
further down the track, alighting
when the train stopped at the inter-
locking tower. They started back up
the track to where their companion
had alighted. To their horror they
found his dead body lying in the
middle of the track Evidently when
he jumped he lost his footing and was
thrown under the wheels of the train. [,
His head was crushed, one of the !
wheels having passed over it.
The two cadets notified Lieutenant |
Brown, commandant and President
Puryear, and Hector was hastened to |
the hospital. Death was instant for
him, however.
Hector was a junior at the college, |
having spent two full tercs there. He |
recently celebrated his twentieth |
birthday. He was good student and |
popular with his classmates, and was |
recently appointed sergeant Of his
company. The boy lived at Alpine.
President Puryear notified the father
Vi tuc dCtlutut anu lC-
ceived instructions to forward the
body there for interment
Funeral services were conducted at !
the college at o'clock this afternoon
at the parlors of the hospital. Men,
bers of the junior class who are re-
naming at the college during the
Christmas holidays acted as pail |
bearers.
Residents of the campus subscribed |
to fund to send two cadets along !,
with the body and Cadets Williams
and Dougherty accompanied the body, |
which was forwarded on the 2 o'clock |
train this afternoon.
Hector was working his way |
through school and acted as guard at |
Miner Hall during meal hours, the |
past session, as was acmfwycmfwyv |
past session. He was steady, relia-
BILE boy and recognized as a good stu