The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-03-06
BODY IS BADLY MANCLED
James Ingram, Brakeman, Fell
From Car to Death
Was Not Missed Until New Ulm
Was Reached; Found In
Local Yard
From thursdays Daily.

James Ingram, head brakeman on
freight train No. 4sl, on the Chicago
ard Northwestern railway going
west, met instant death last night
shortly before eleven o'clock. II is be.
licved that he fell from the train and
was ground to death under the
wheels
Mr.. Ingram helped do the work
Ct the train while at the freight
depot at the Mankato station, and
he is believed to have been on the
train when II left here at 10:40 last
irht. He was not missed until the
train reached New Ulm, and then
the conductor, c. NJ. Riegel, tele-
graphed back that he was missing.
The Northwestern yard men hers
Immediately instituted a search for
him. and his mangled body was
found at the interlocking plant near
the Northwestern freight depot,
about an hour after the train had
pulled out OF the aMnkato station, by
William Hadt.
cooy ToTfipiy ManSfcu.
The body was horribly bruised
and mangled There was a large
cut across the abdomen and hips.
the left leg was cut of above the
knee, the right leg was crushed to
pulp, both jaws were broken and
the face was badly bruised and cut
from being rolled. The condition
OF the body would indicate that Mr..
Ingram was killed by one train and
struck by another. The spot where
T. is believed he was killed Is about
ten feet from where he lay when he
was found.
Coroner Liedloff was called i'm
Iaediately and pronounced the death
accidental. He in. turn called an un.
der taker an dthe body was removed
I" the Klein undertaking rooms.
Leaves Family at Waseca.
Mr.. In gram was about forty years
old and lived at Waseca. He leaves
a wife and three small children.
A strange circumstance concerning
the accident is that in spite of the
fact that Mr. Ingrams body was so
very badly bruised and cut, his
watch was still running and in his
vest pocket when his body was found.
There was a slight dent in the back
Of the case, but II was running per-
feCtly.
Discovered BY William Hadt.
William Hadt, fireman at the Hub
bard mill, had been visiting friends
in North Mankato, had crossed the
bridge on his way to the mill and
was following the railroad tracks,
when he spled, lying alongside OF one
Of the tracks what he thought, in
the imperfect light, to be a bundle
OF clothing. II was about IL 40 o'clock
and he was due at the mill at mid
night. He stopped to look more close
ly and perceived to his horror that
he was looking ut the frightfully
mutilated remains OF man. He spieJ
the brass key, such as all brakemen
carry. hanging out from the pocket.
and having once been a brakeman
himself, he surmised at once that he
lad found the body Of a brakeman,
who had been killed by a train. The
body lay a short distance south OF
the swltch-tower, just back OF
Schwender Brothers garage.
Cody Was Recognized.
Mr.. Hadt noticed the Northwestern
switch engine near by and called to
the fireman, S. Larson, who. came
over with a torch. The body was
soon recognized as that OF James In.
gram OF Waseca, head brakeman of
Northwestern freight train No. 4s1.
which had left Mankato for New
Tim at 1885. Mr.. Larson reported
The matter to the yard master, Z. s.
Gum. Notice was at once sent to
the trainmaster, VI. Johnson, at his
home in North Mankato; TO the local
agent, c. II. Johnson, and to r. f.
McCauley Of winona, assistant su.
rerintendent of the Minnesota d.
vision Of the Northwestern who hap
pened TO be in Mankato, staying at
the Heinrich. Coroner Iiedloff was
notified and the mangled body was
taken to the Klein undertaking
rooms.
Not Missed Until New Uim Reached.
Dir. Ingram was not missed from
his train until Il reached New Ulm.
When the train reached Judson. n
stop was made 10 unload a way
freight and Rear Brakeman Cove and
Conductor Charles Riegel wondered
why the head conductor had not
come down into the caboose, as usual
but they did not think there was
anything wrong. as his lantern was
stiil burning on the top OF car
near the head end OF the train
When the train reached New Ulm
at 1:1o the lantern was stlll burning
and Mr. Ingram was still missing