The Mankato free press., 1913-05-09
PROBE CRAveR'S DEATH

From Tuesdays Daily.
| c. p. Hill of the claim department
of the Omaha road, whose head
quarters are in st. Paul, was, in the
city last evening, and with C. H.
Cooper, agent for the, Omaha road
here, made an investigation to ascer-
tain, if possible the exact manner in
which George Craver met his death
Sunday morning under the wheels
! of an Omaha switch engine. The
! result NJ. their investigation as to
the time Craver was last seen tailed
with the story told in The Free Press
/ yesterday and after examining the
cars closely and also the switch en-
gine, they found that there was
scme blood on the front end of the
engine. and also on the trucks of
the caboose. 1t was ascertained that
about the time Craver left the Uniorf
depot, the switch engine was push.
ing the caboose and a number of
cars south on the track on the east
side of the depot. The front end.
of the engine was attached to the
caboose. 1t is therefore the opinion
of the railroad officials that Craver
must have. fallen between the ca
boose and engine, or else that he
mounted the steps of the caboose and
FOIL off between it and the engine.
( Jean A. Hartman, engineer of a
mixed train on the Milwaukee road
between Mankato and Wells. told a
narrowing story to Desk Sergeant
Thomas Foley last evening of how
he had barely missed running over
little girl as he was pulling into
! Mankato yesterday afternoon. He
said that as he was approaching the
Liberty street crossing, at a speed
of not over four miles an hour. a
/. little boy and little girl were COM
ing from school, AS they came near
the crossing, the boy stopped, to wait
until the train should pass, but his
sister ran ahead.
The engineer saw the boy stop
| and he did not close his throttle.
! However, he Cid not notice that the
little girl had gone ahead and was
crossing the track 1t was then too
late to stop the train, and his heart
came up in his throat as he saw
that he must certainly hit the child.
! She was running as fast as she
could, however. and the pilot of the
engine missed her by hairs
breadth, and that was all. It looked
for second as if her death was in
evitable, but she made the crossing,
and then, not realizing how near SHE
had been to a. horrible death, stop
engineer.
Mr.. Hartman had not recovered
from the experience when he came
to the police station last night. and
his voice still shook as he recounted
the tale. A man in his position
feels as no other can the respon-
sibility of his job, where the care
lessness of another crossing track
may possibly cause him to be con-
victed of manslaughter, or at least
! lOiSC hiht w oOC ljlIOCGut DcTSOll
ground to death before his eyes.
powerless to prevent it, Mr.. Harri-
man wishes this to be warning to
all fathers and mothers and urges
upon them and children also, the
necessity of always exercising ex-
treme care when crossing railroad
track or walking in the yards Mr..
Hartman had heard of the terrible
accident here Sunday when George
Craver was killed, and this incident
of what might have happened be-
fore his very eyes if this needless
little girl had slipped ever so little
Cottonwood, Mimi, May 6.-The
body of w L. Knodle. farmer, who
disappeared from his home three
weeks ago, was found in Gibbs lake
near this city yesterday, with stones
tied to the neck to weight down the
corpse. Dr. j.. B. Robertson, the
coroner, will hold an inquest The
man is believed to have committed
suicide. A large family survives
DIR. r. ~ Andrews, who was called
to care for the man who was found
unconscious in the alley between
Front and Second streets near Mu,-
berry street yesterday afternoon, is
of the opinion that the patient had
been victim of an epileptic fit
and went to sleep after the attack
passed off. He was taken to ST.
Joseph's hospital and after sleeping
all night he awoke this morning as
well as ever ana was allowed to go.
He does not know what happened
to him. He is painter by trade
and has been working with the
Salvation army. He is known to the
army as Sunny Jimmy" but further
than that nothing is known of him.
lie came to Mankato from nowhere
in particular last winter and was
taken in by the Salvation army.
No Band Meeting Held.
A band meeting was called for
last evening but so few musicians