Obituary:
ABILENE DAILY REPORTER
Abilene, Taylor Co., TX
Thursday, 6 April 1911
FRANK ALFORD STRUCK BY TEXAS AND PACIFIC WEST BOUND NEAR ARLINGTON – DEATH INSTANTANEOUS
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 3—A man identified as Frank Alford of Hico was struck by a westbound Texas and Pacific passenger train near Arlington at 4:45 o’clock this morning and instantly killed. According to the statement of Engineer Garabrant given to Justice Maben, who is holding the inquest, Alford was walking on the track during the heavy rain of the early morning and was not observed until the locomotive was within a few yards of him. The whistle was blown and the airbrake applied, but it was too late. The man turned his head at the sound of the whistle in time to realize his danger. The next moment he was struck and killed.
The body was brought here and placed at the Spellman undertaking establishment. A card and a memorandum book in the pocket of the deceased led to the belief that he was a citizen of Waco. Parties in that city wired that the Waco man was alive, and that the man killed had exchanged coats with him in the Eagles’ leigeroom there by mistake.
The undertaker was advised that the dead man’s name was Frank Alford of Hico, and inquiry was made at the latter place. The remains were sent tonight to Hico for interment. A brother of the deceased came here this evening and took the body to its destination.
ABILENE DAILY REPORTER
Abilene, Taylor Co., TX
Thursday, 6 April 1911
FRANK ALFORD STRUCK BY TEXAS AND PACIFIC WEST BOUND NEAR ARLINGTON – DEATH INSTANTANEOUS
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 3—A man identified as Frank Alford of Hico was struck by a westbound Texas and Pacific passenger train near Arlington at 4:45 o’clock this morning and instantly killed. According to the statement of Engineer Garabrant given to Justice Maben, who is holding the inquest, Alford was walking on the track during the heavy rain of the early morning and was not observed until the locomotive was within a few yards of him. The whistle was blown and the airbrake applied, but it was too late. The man turned his head at the sound of the whistle in time to realize his danger. The next moment he was struck and killed.
The body was brought here and placed at the Spellman undertaking establishment. A card and a memorandum book in the pocket of the deceased led to the belief that he was a citizen of Waco. Parties in that city wired that the Waco man was alive, and that the man killed had exchanged coats with him in the Eagles’ leigeroom there by mistake.
The undertaker was advised that the dead man’s name was Frank Alford of Hico, and inquiry was made at the latter place. The remains were sent tonight to Hico for interment. A brother of the deceased came here this evening and took the body to its destination.
Obituary:
ABILENE DAILY REPORTER
Abilene, Taylor Co., TX
Thursday, 6 April 1911
FRANK ALFORD STRUCK BY TEXAS AND PACIFIC WEST BOUND NEAR ARLINGTON – DEATH INSTANTANEOUS
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 3—A man identified as Frank Alford of Hico was struck by a westbound Texas and Pacific passenger train near Arlington at 4:45 o’clock this morning and instantly killed. According to the statement of Engineer Garabrant given to Justice Maben, who is holding the inquest, Alford was walking on the track during the heavy rain of the early morning and was not observed until the locomotive was within a few yards of him. The whistle was blown and the airbrake applied, but it was too late. The man turned his head at the sound of the whistle in time to realize his danger. The next moment he was struck and killed.
The body was brought here and placed at the Spellman undertaking establishment. A card and a memorandum book in the pocket of the deceased led to the belief that he was a citizen of Waco. Parties in that city wired that the Waco man was alive, and that the man killed had exchanged coats with him in the Eagles’ leigeroom there by mistake.
The undertaker was advised that the dead man’s name was Frank Alford of Hico, and inquiry was made at the latter place. The remains were sent tonight to Hico for interment. A brother of the deceased came here this evening and took the body to its destination.
ABILENE DAILY REPORTER
Abilene, Taylor Co., TX
Thursday, 6 April 1911
FRANK ALFORD STRUCK BY TEXAS AND PACIFIC WEST BOUND NEAR ARLINGTON – DEATH INSTANTANEOUS
FORT WORTH, Tex., April 3—A man identified as Frank Alford of Hico was struck by a westbound Texas and Pacific passenger train near Arlington at 4:45 o’clock this morning and instantly killed. According to the statement of Engineer Garabrant given to Justice Maben, who is holding the inquest, Alford was walking on the track during the heavy rain of the early morning and was not observed until the locomotive was within a few yards of him. The whistle was blown and the airbrake applied, but it was too late. The man turned his head at the sound of the whistle in time to realize his danger. The next moment he was struck and killed.
The body was brought here and placed at the Spellman undertaking establishment. A card and a memorandum book in the pocket of the deceased led to the belief that he was a citizen of Waco. Parties in that city wired that the Waco man was alive, and that the man killed had exchanged coats with him in the Eagles’ leigeroom there by mistake.
The undertaker was advised that the dead man’s name was Frank Alford of Hico, and inquiry was made at the latter place. The remains were sent tonight to Hico for interment. A brother of the deceased came here this evening and took the body to its destination.
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