A. N. Parcell
DEATH BY ACCIDENT.
N. Parcell, front brakeman on train No. 13, the freight due here at 1:30 a.m., met his death near Spiritwood Sunday morning, presumably by falling between the tender and first car of the moving train and being run over. When the train left Spiritwood in response to the whistle of the engineer both Parcell and the rear brakeman unloosed the brakes, the latter returning to his usual place in the caboose and Parcell starting for the cab where the front brakeman generally stays. But he did not reach the cab, however. Parcell’s absence was not noticed until the train reached Jamestown when it was found that he was not on the train. The circumstances were such that fears of an accident were entertained and accordingly an engine was sent back to look for the missing man. He was found a short distance this side of Spiritwood lying about thirty feet from the track. He had evidently missed his footing and fallen to the ground when endeavoring to leap to the tender of the engine. This view is strengthened from the fact that his lantern was found on the tender in a battered and smashed condition, as though caught and wrenched from the falling man. When found life was extinct, but death came not instantaneously as the mangled man had dragged himself about thirty feet from the train and had taken off one shoe. One arm and leg was severed from the body which was otherwise badly mangled. On the arrival of the body at Jamestown it was immediately given in charge of the undertaker and encased in a casket.
Coroner Thorold was notified of the occurrence and empaneled a jury consisting of Ed. Lathrop, D. C. Buck and Fred Clark, who held an inquest Sunday morning. Conductor Clark and rear brakeman Montgomery were examined as witnesses and the facts elicited were substantially the same as above. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to either the railroad company or its employees.
The deceased was a young man of about 25 years and is said to leave a wife and child at Westfield, Ill., where his parents reside. Parcell was of a modest and unassuming disposition and had a large number of friends here to whom he was familiarly known as “Shorty.” He had worked for the railroad company a number of years, having formerly run on the Valley road.
Relatives at Westfield were advised of his fate and yesterday afternoon the body was interred in Highland Home cemetery. The funeral was arranged by the railroad officials with all possible care and regard. Rev. N. D. Fanning spoke a few well chosen words at the grave after which the body was laid in its final resting place.
**Jamestown Weekly Alert, Thursday, June 23, 1887, Page 1.
Contributor: Brian Backes (47148484) • [email protected]
DEATH BY ACCIDENT.
N. Parcell, front brakeman on train No. 13, the freight due here at 1:30 a.m., met his death near Spiritwood Sunday morning, presumably by falling between the tender and first car of the moving train and being run over. When the train left Spiritwood in response to the whistle of the engineer both Parcell and the rear brakeman unloosed the brakes, the latter returning to his usual place in the caboose and Parcell starting for the cab where the front brakeman generally stays. But he did not reach the cab, however. Parcell’s absence was not noticed until the train reached Jamestown when it was found that he was not on the train. The circumstances were such that fears of an accident were entertained and accordingly an engine was sent back to look for the missing man. He was found a short distance this side of Spiritwood lying about thirty feet from the track. He had evidently missed his footing and fallen to the ground when endeavoring to leap to the tender of the engine. This view is strengthened from the fact that his lantern was found on the tender in a battered and smashed condition, as though caught and wrenched from the falling man. When found life was extinct, but death came not instantaneously as the mangled man had dragged himself about thirty feet from the train and had taken off one shoe. One arm and leg was severed from the body which was otherwise badly mangled. On the arrival of the body at Jamestown it was immediately given in charge of the undertaker and encased in a casket.
Coroner Thorold was notified of the occurrence and empaneled a jury consisting of Ed. Lathrop, D. C. Buck and Fred Clark, who held an inquest Sunday morning. Conductor Clark and rear brakeman Montgomery were examined as witnesses and the facts elicited were substantially the same as above. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to either the railroad company or its employees.
The deceased was a young man of about 25 years and is said to leave a wife and child at Westfield, Ill., where his parents reside. Parcell was of a modest and unassuming disposition and had a large number of friends here to whom he was familiarly known as “Shorty.” He had worked for the railroad company a number of years, having formerly run on the Valley road.
Relatives at Westfield were advised of his fate and yesterday afternoon the body was interred in Highland Home cemetery. The funeral was arranged by the railroad officials with all possible care and regard. Rev. N. D. Fanning spoke a few well chosen words at the grave after which the body was laid in its final resting place.
**Jamestown Weekly Alert, Thursday, June 23, 1887, Page 1.
Contributor: Brian Backes (47148484) • [email protected]
A. N. Parcell
DEATH BY ACCIDENT.
N. Parcell, front brakeman on train No. 13, the freight due here at 1:30 a.m., met his death near Spiritwood Sunday morning, presumably by falling between the tender and first car of the moving train and being run over. When the train left Spiritwood in response to the whistle of the engineer both Parcell and the rear brakeman unloosed the brakes, the latter returning to his usual place in the caboose and Parcell starting for the cab where the front brakeman generally stays. But he did not reach the cab, however. Parcell’s absence was not noticed until the train reached Jamestown when it was found that he was not on the train. The circumstances were such that fears of an accident were entertained and accordingly an engine was sent back to look for the missing man. He was found a short distance this side of Spiritwood lying about thirty feet from the track. He had evidently missed his footing and fallen to the ground when endeavoring to leap to the tender of the engine. This view is strengthened from the fact that his lantern was found on the tender in a battered and smashed condition, as though caught and wrenched from the falling man. When found life was extinct, but death came not instantaneously as the mangled man had dragged himself about thirty feet from the train and had taken off one shoe. One arm and leg was severed from the body which was otherwise badly mangled. On the arrival of the body at Jamestown it was immediately given in charge of the undertaker and encased in a casket.
Coroner Thorold was notified of the occurrence and empaneled a jury consisting of Ed. Lathrop, D. C. Buck and Fred Clark, who held an inquest Sunday morning. Conductor Clark and rear brakeman Montgomery were examined as witnesses and the facts elicited were substantially the same as above. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to either the railroad company or its employees.
The deceased was a young man of about 25 years and is said to leave a wife and child at Westfield, Ill., where his parents reside. Parcell was of a modest and unassuming disposition and had a large number of friends here to whom he was familiarly known as “Shorty.” He had worked for the railroad company a number of years, having formerly run on the Valley road.
Relatives at Westfield were advised of his fate and yesterday afternoon the body was interred in Highland Home cemetery. The funeral was arranged by the railroad officials with all possible care and regard. Rev. N. D. Fanning spoke a few well chosen words at the grave after which the body was laid in its final resting place.
**Jamestown Weekly Alert, Thursday, June 23, 1887, Page 1.
Contributor: Brian Backes (47148484) • [email protected]
DEATH BY ACCIDENT.
N. Parcell, front brakeman on train No. 13, the freight due here at 1:30 a.m., met his death near Spiritwood Sunday morning, presumably by falling between the tender and first car of the moving train and being run over. When the train left Spiritwood in response to the whistle of the engineer both Parcell and the rear brakeman unloosed the brakes, the latter returning to his usual place in the caboose and Parcell starting for the cab where the front brakeman generally stays. But he did not reach the cab, however. Parcell’s absence was not noticed until the train reached Jamestown when it was found that he was not on the train. The circumstances were such that fears of an accident were entertained and accordingly an engine was sent back to look for the missing man. He was found a short distance this side of Spiritwood lying about thirty feet from the track. He had evidently missed his footing and fallen to the ground when endeavoring to leap to the tender of the engine. This view is strengthened from the fact that his lantern was found on the tender in a battered and smashed condition, as though caught and wrenched from the falling man. When found life was extinct, but death came not instantaneously as the mangled man had dragged himself about thirty feet from the train and had taken off one shoe. One arm and leg was severed from the body which was otherwise badly mangled. On the arrival of the body at Jamestown it was immediately given in charge of the undertaker and encased in a casket.
Coroner Thorold was notified of the occurrence and empaneled a jury consisting of Ed. Lathrop, D. C. Buck and Fred Clark, who held an inquest Sunday morning. Conductor Clark and rear brakeman Montgomery were examined as witnesses and the facts elicited were substantially the same as above. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to either the railroad company or its employees.
The deceased was a young man of about 25 years and is said to leave a wife and child at Westfield, Ill., where his parents reside. Parcell was of a modest and unassuming disposition and had a large number of friends here to whom he was familiarly known as “Shorty.” He had worked for the railroad company a number of years, having formerly run on the Valley road.
Relatives at Westfield were advised of his fate and yesterday afternoon the body was interred in Highland Home cemetery. The funeral was arranged by the railroad officials with all possible care and regard. Rev. N. D. Fanning spoke a few well chosen words at the grave after which the body was laid in its final resting place.
**Jamestown Weekly Alert, Thursday, June 23, 1887, Page 1.
Contributor: Brian Backes (47148484) • [email protected]
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