The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-03-22
WOUNDED TODEATH
!. AS PAL SUMBERS
Railway Engine Fatally Injuries
One OF Two Men While
Other Sleeps On ~ {

Asleep in equally hazardous pos tibns
with their heads pillowed ON man track
ties Of the Onhu Railr ny & Land Com
pany line where II passes through the
Pearl HnTbor naval reservation, one
marine was 40 fatally iniurd ut mid
night Monday night by a passing train
that he died less than half an hour
later, and another. through some freak
of chance escaped without scratch.
First sgt. Ion c. Brows, l1sth Com
bany, Marine Barracks, was struck by
the step on the cowrAtchGr Of the train
leaving HW'lu'h Of eleveh;fifteen
o clock at Night, and deep and long
cash cut In his skull '*s i,
The force Of the hinw slowed his
body around 80 he was thrown over the
form of his companion, Pvt. y. f.
Sayres Also Of the Pearl Harbor Ma.
rine Barracks, whom the train missed
striking by II fraction Of an inch.f
When picked up, Sergeant Brows'
head was nearly six feet from the
track, where he had been tossed By the
blow Of the engine. %'@fa. s.
Other MN Sleeps "A d.
Private Sayres was still asleep with
HIS head on tie and with the body Of
the nearly dead sergeant tying across
him, after the train was stopped and
when the train crew reached the two
men II IL reported that in spite Of his
wearisone position, the noise of the
passing train and the force with which
the body Of Sergeant Brows must have
fallen upon him, Private Sayres was
awakened with difficulty by the train
crew. &F"b ~.
With the assistance OF B. Hale, a
navy man from Magazine Islnnd, Ser
geant Brows was picked up by the
train crew and taken to Atea, where
| Dr. Harry Cooper was called 10 attend
him, but without avail, for he soon
passed away. - - 58ha
IN the meantime the Honolulu de-
spateher, who had been informed Of the
.aecidept, reported il to the Fort Shat
Iter Hospital, from where q service am
bulance was sent to Aiea. taG ,F'
4 The accident happened on q curve
near Magazine Station, about one mile
1 on the Eva side Of Puuloa. Al the ap
proach to the spot where the two ,mer
/ were sleeping there is an abrupt bend
/ in the road, with only about thre,
straight lengths of rails leading up X
where they were lying With their head
on the ends Of ties and their feet ex
| tended out into the right Of way. d
Train Is Stopped ~ ~
As the engine ran up on the shor
stretch of straight track. J. ,. Pufdy
4 the engineer in chatge of the train, saw
white olIect near the track. TIL,
i hort distance and time prevented hin
from determining whether il was cora
,stone or white clothing. He threw Of
his air brakes and with a lighted torcl
in his hand stepped to. the side Of tn
engine cab, peering down to ascertain
the nature Of the white object.
He brought bis train to a stop ant
then informed the conductor. @. Z. Am
BERN, that he feared he had Just passe'
two men who were dangerously nea
the track. At that time the enginee
did not know the engine had struck on
II the men.
Not In Uniform
Both the marines were in ,civilia
clothing when found and are believe
to have spent the evening at Aiea, al
forwards walking out towards thei
quarters, until they stopped to rest an
then fell asleep. They were only shor
way from their destination when the
stopped. 3. 49,.
Sergeant Brows was about twenty
six years of age and his home was /
Lafayette, Louisiana. He enlisted as
marine at Mare island, California, i
September, 1916. 49,.
This is the second fatal ccfdeu
which has occurred in. the last fr'
months while an, engine was bcin
driven by Engineer Purdy, but the tw
re all he has had In eighteen years q
service for the Oahu Railway & Ian
Company. He is an exceptionally care
full cab driver, according to H. N. D"T
ison, assistant superintendent Of tn
railroad, who made a personal invest
sation of the accident yesterday.
THE first mishap, which occurrc
while Engineer Purdy was driving, VIZ
souewhat identical with the second on
Monday night. He was bringing trai
through Waipahu a month or so az
when it struck an Intoxicated .Inpane'
? who was sitting on D rail near the ST
ton. The japanese, who WAS kille
had been warned just a; few minut,
before by Hawaiian woman that II
train was due. As in the second acc
P dent the victim was hidden from sgl
by a curve. I'd -..'.
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