About 5 o'clock this morning the mangled remains of a white man named Donald F. Wright were discovered near the S.P. railroad crossing in Bruner addition. It is stated that the unfortunate man was run down by train No. 11, west bound, due in Orange at 4:17, but was running a little late. A man named Brad Youngblood, an employee of the paper mill, while returning home from work was the first to discover the dead man's body, which was lying mid-way the road and crossing.
The last seen of Wright was about 4 o'clock Sunday morning at the Southern Pacific depot. We are informed that the unfortunate man received Saturday afternoon a check from the Seaboard Refining Company for $36.00 for wages. As there was no money found on the dead man's body when picked up, it is surmised that he was assassinated and robbed or that in attempting to catch on to the front end of the engine he missed his step and fell in front of the train.
Deceased is survived by a wife and one child and his parents who reside in Beaumont. Besides a brother, L. B. Wright, assistant superintendent of the Seaboard Oil Refining Company. He had been residing for quite a while with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brooks of Bruner addition.
Interment was had in Evergreen Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Published in The Orange Daily Leader, Monday, April 8, 1918.
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About 5 o'clock this morning the mangled remains of a white man named Donald F. Wright were discovered near the S.P. railroad crossing in Bruner addition. It is stated that the unfortunate man was run down by train No. 11, west bound, due in Orange at 4:17, but was running a little late. A man named Brad Youngblood, an employee of the paper mill, while returning home from work was the first to discover the dead man's body, which was lying mid-way the road and crossing.
The last seen of Wright was about 4 o'clock Sunday morning at the Southern Pacific depot. We are informed that the unfortunate man received Saturday afternoon a check from the Seaboard Refining Company for $36.00 for wages. As there was no money found on the dead man's body when picked up, it is surmised that he was assassinated and robbed or that in attempting to catch on to the front end of the engine he missed his step and fell in front of the train.
Deceased is survived by a wife and one child and his parents who reside in Beaumont. Besides a brother, L. B. Wright, assistant superintendent of the Seaboard Oil Refining Company. He had been residing for quite a while with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brooks of Bruner addition.
Interment was had in Evergreen Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Published in The Orange Daily Leader, Monday, April 8, 1918.
www.texashistory.unt.edu
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