Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-13
Decision in
Bangor Accident

The public utilities commission in
its decision rendered Wednesday in
the matter of the accident on the
premises of the Maine Central Rail-
road at Bangor, resulting in the death
of d. A. McF'ayden, says that it is
evident from the statement of the
physician that Mr.. McFayden must
have received rather a severe blow
in the abdomen, resulting in the in
jury which caused his death.
ID. A. McFayden of Bangor, aged
SIS years, employed by the Maine Gen.
trail Railroad Company as a Iaborer
at its engine house at Bangor, while
loading some iron rods onto a small
car in the Bangor yard about 245
P. NJ, on Jan. %, 1922, received in
juries from which he died Jan. 81,
1922" say the public utilities COM
missioners in their decision.
Mr.. McFayden, with three other
men, was instructed to take the
broken side-rods off from the front
of an engine, load them onto a small
car, and take them to a machine shop
in the Bangor yard" continues the
decision.
"One of these rods was seven feet
long and weighed about 100 pounds.
Two of the men, George Cheverie and
James P. Casey, took hold Of the
large end of this rod and McFayden
took hold of the smaller hind end Of
the rod. and the three men carried it
about 20 feet to be placed upon the
little push car. When they came to
the car Cheverie and Casey laid their
end of the rod onto the car, and Nc
Fayden swung around to put his end
onto the car.
so far as anyone observed at the
time this was done, nothing out of
the ordinary occurred, and Cheverie
and Casey claim that they laid their
end of the rod carefully onto the little
car so that there was no jar.
However, as soon as McFayden
had placed his end of the rod upon
the car, he Immediately walked away
and said nothing, and was afterwards
found sitting in the heater plant. lie
was at that time, as the witness tes-
titled, all doubled up, and when asked
what the trouble was, replied They
have gillpoked me- Mr.. McFayden
was evidently in great agony and
pain, and they did not ask him any
more questions at the time. He was
taken to his home and doctor was
summoned. Later on he was taken
to the hospital, where he died onsJan.
9th"
DR.. H. A. King, the attending
physician, makes the following state
ment:
Concerning the sickness and death
of Mr.. Daniel A. McFayden, which
occurred in this city recently, permit
me to say that Mr.. McF'ayden in
formed me of an injury he had re-
ceived by being hit on the prominent
part of his abdomen by the end of a
heavy piece of iron. Upon my first
visit to Mr.. McF'ayden I found him
suffering great pain with a we'll de-
fined attack of acute traumatc per-
itonitis resulting in death after a few
days of intense suffering"
THE men who were with Mr. Nc
Fayden at the time he was hurt ap-
parently did not know that any ac-
cident happened, and it is impossible
IL Oii ouSi SNiNCASe do we nave Decn
able to obtain to determine the cause
of the accident. Although the two
men who were carrying the other end
of the rod claim to have put it down
upon the car easily, it may be that
sufficient jar then occurred to cause
the injury to McFayden who had hold
of the other end of the rod at the
time"