The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
MAY Be EXPRESS WORKMAN
Badly Mutilated Portions of the Body
Are Brought to Kenosha While Cor
oner Seeks Some information as to
How Man Came to His Death.

The village of Somers reported the
most sickening rail killing of the year
this morning when the horribly mutt
lated remains of a man were picked up
along the road just north of the state.
|. The body was mutilated so as to make
identification impossible and the por-
tions of the remains were brought to
Kenosha. 1t is thought possible t.
the man may have been an employee OF
the Union Express Company in Chicago,
but officials of that company declared
in a telephone communication that
none of their employees was missing.
The man had evidently been killed
late last night or early this morning
as portions of the body had been frozen
to the ground along the track. At the
offices of the express company in Chi
cago it was declared that many
E'extra - men had been employed
by the company in recent weeks
and that the man killed might have
been one of these men.
Such portions of the remains of
the man as could be picked up were
brought to Kenosha by Coroner
Millager in a small box and taken to
the Mischler morgue.
The portions of the body of the man
had been scrattered along the tracks
of the railway for distance of nearly
quarter of mile and it was evident
that he had been literally ground to
pieces under the wheels of the train.
Tt is Ppossible that two trains struck
him, one killing him and the other
mangling the remains. 1t was impos-
sible to identify the mutilated re-
mains. His arms and his legs had been
cut off and his face crushed. Early
this morning when the section crew
started out from Somers for the days
work, one of the men found a portion
of the body along the track. They fol
lowed along the track and found that
it was smeared with blood for many
miles. Coroner Millager was notified
and when he reached the station eff
forts were being made to gather up the
portions of the body. No one at Som
ers could identify the man or give any
details of how he met his death. No
strangers had been seen about the
station. When the pockets were search
ed four tags bearing the name of tThe
Union Express Company" 817 Rush
street, Chicago, were found.
The man had evidently been work
er for some company as he was wee',
ing suit Of good everalls, good under
clothing and a chinchilla overcoat. He
had ON no under coat or vest. On one
of the arms, which had been torn from
the body, was found tatooed represen-
tation of girls head There appear
ed to have been some printing below
the figure but it had been cut off by
the wheels of the train. No report of
any accident along the road had been
sent in by any of the train crews dur
ing the night and the manner in which
the man met death in such horrible
form was complete mystery. Many
trains passed through Somers station
during the night and none of them
stopped at the station. 1t is possible
that the man could have been hit by
any one of these trains and as they
are operated at high rate of speed it
is probable that any one of them
could have killed the man without
the fact being known to the members
of the train crew.