∼FATAL ACCIDENT ON R. R. TRACK NEAR CANADIAN
Another fatality has been added to Canadian's history in the sad occurrence of last Saturday morning when the life of Robert HARRIS went out and Harrison GUTHRIE is in the hospital with a serious injury.
To give an accurate account of the accident would be impossible since the living one of the two was unable to give any idea as to the accident, being rendered unconscious with the impact. His story is, so far as he can remember like the following.
The boys were going down the track east about 7 o'clock in the morning, their object being to examine some traps which had been previously located by them on the north side of the river. There was a heavy mist driving from the northeast and the supposition is that their clothing was drawn close around them, perhaps over their ears, GUTHRIE walking on the outside while HARRIS was walking in the center of the track.
The work train was going out, leaving the yards at 6:40 a.m., with the engine, backing, pulling the train. The train was just leaving the east end of the yards, had gotten in the clear and was picking up speed, going perhaps about ten miles an hour, perhaps at the time of the accident. With the impact GUTHRIE was knocked down the embankment and lay sometime unconscious. When he recovered consciousness he started to return to town and discovered the feet and limbs of his companion which had been dismembered. He met a section crew who assisted him in reaching town and who also went out and picked up the more unfortunate HARRIS. The train crew did not know that anyone had been struck until they returned to Canadian later in the day.
This is one of the saddest accidents that we have been called on to record for a great while and brings to our mind the fact that we are all too careless and unthoughtful at times. A chain of circumstances seemed to surround this accident which makes it impossible to place this responsibility. It was just breaking day, raining and blustery, the engine was going backwards. It seems a most impossible thing that the train should approach without them hearing it but it did most certainly, and with a very sad result.
Although the company has gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to prevent pedestrians from making use of their property because of the continuous danger in the practice, yet we find that it is done, even by the most precious persons and oftentimes with the above termination.
Funeral Services for Robert HARRIS was held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. E. Hawkins, interment in the city cemetery. Sympathy for the family is abundant on every hand.
Robert HARRIS was 21 years old. He died December 01, 1913.
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Another fatality has been added to Canadian's history in the sad occurrence of last Saturday morning when the life of Robert HARRIS went out and Harrison GUTHRIE is in the hospital with a serious injury.
To give an accurate account of the accident would be impossible since the living one of the two was unable to give any idea as to the accident, being rendered unconscious with the impact. His story is, so far as he can remember like the following.
The boys were going down the track east about 7 o'clock in the morning, their object being to examine some traps which had been previously located by them on the north side of the river. There was a heavy mist driving from the northeast and the supposition is that their clothing was drawn close around them, perhaps over their ears, GUTHRIE walking on the outside while HARRIS was walking in the center of the track.
The work train was going out, leaving the yards at 6:40 a.m., with the engine, backing, pulling the train. The train was just leaving the east end of the yards, had gotten in the clear and was picking up speed, going perhaps about ten miles an hour, perhaps at the time of the accident. With the impact GUTHRIE was knocked down the embankment and lay sometime unconscious. When he recovered consciousness he started to return to town and discovered the feet and limbs of his companion which had been dismembered. He met a section crew who assisted him in reaching town and who also went out and picked up the more unfortunate HARRIS. The train crew did not know that anyone had been struck until they returned to Canadian later in the day.
This is one of the saddest accidents that we have been called on to record for a great while and brings to our mind the fact that we are all too careless and unthoughtful at times. A chain of circumstances seemed to surround this accident which makes it impossible to place this responsibility. It was just breaking day, raining and blustery, the engine was going backwards. It seems a most impossible thing that the train should approach without them hearing it but it did most certainly, and with a very sad result.
Although the company has gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to prevent pedestrians from making use of their property because of the continuous danger in the practice, yet we find that it is done, even by the most precious persons and oftentimes with the above termination.
Funeral Services for Robert HARRIS was held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. E. Hawkins, interment in the city cemetery. Sympathy for the family is abundant on every hand.
Robert HARRIS was 21 years old. He died December 01, 1913.
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∼FATAL ACCIDENT ON R. R. TRACK NEAR CANADIAN
Another fatality has been added to Canadian's history in the sad occurrence of last Saturday morning when the life of Robert HARRIS went out and Harrison GUTHRIE is in the hospital with a serious injury.
To give an accurate account of the accident would be impossible since the living one of the two was unable to give any idea as to the accident, being rendered unconscious with the impact. His story is, so far as he can remember like the following.
The boys were going down the track east about 7 o'clock in the morning, their object being to examine some traps which had been previously located by them on the north side of the river. There was a heavy mist driving from the northeast and the supposition is that their clothing was drawn close around them, perhaps over their ears, GUTHRIE walking on the outside while HARRIS was walking in the center of the track.
The work train was going out, leaving the yards at 6:40 a.m., with the engine, backing, pulling the train. The train was just leaving the east end of the yards, had gotten in the clear and was picking up speed, going perhaps about ten miles an hour, perhaps at the time of the accident. With the impact GUTHRIE was knocked down the embankment and lay sometime unconscious. When he recovered consciousness he started to return to town and discovered the feet and limbs of his companion which had been dismembered. He met a section crew who assisted him in reaching town and who also went out and picked up the more unfortunate HARRIS. The train crew did not know that anyone had been struck until they returned to Canadian later in the day.
This is one of the saddest accidents that we have been called on to record for a great while and brings to our mind the fact that we are all too careless and unthoughtful at times. A chain of circumstances seemed to surround this accident which makes it impossible to place this responsibility. It was just breaking day, raining and blustery, the engine was going backwards. It seems a most impossible thing that the train should approach without them hearing it but it did most certainly, and with a very sad result.
Although the company has gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to prevent pedestrians from making use of their property because of the continuous danger in the practice, yet we find that it is done, even by the most precious persons and oftentimes with the above termination.
Funeral Services for Robert HARRIS was held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. E. Hawkins, interment in the city cemetery. Sympathy for the family is abundant on every hand.
Robert HARRIS was 21 years old. He died December 01, 1913.
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Another fatality has been added to Canadian's history in the sad occurrence of last Saturday morning when the life of Robert HARRIS went out and Harrison GUTHRIE is in the hospital with a serious injury.
To give an accurate account of the accident would be impossible since the living one of the two was unable to give any idea as to the accident, being rendered unconscious with the impact. His story is, so far as he can remember like the following.
The boys were going down the track east about 7 o'clock in the morning, their object being to examine some traps which had been previously located by them on the north side of the river. There was a heavy mist driving from the northeast and the supposition is that their clothing was drawn close around them, perhaps over their ears, GUTHRIE walking on the outside while HARRIS was walking in the center of the track.
The work train was going out, leaving the yards at 6:40 a.m., with the engine, backing, pulling the train. The train was just leaving the east end of the yards, had gotten in the clear and was picking up speed, going perhaps about ten miles an hour, perhaps at the time of the accident. With the impact GUTHRIE was knocked down the embankment and lay sometime unconscious. When he recovered consciousness he started to return to town and discovered the feet and limbs of his companion which had been dismembered. He met a section crew who assisted him in reaching town and who also went out and picked up the more unfortunate HARRIS. The train crew did not know that anyone had been struck until they returned to Canadian later in the day.
This is one of the saddest accidents that we have been called on to record for a great while and brings to our mind the fact that we are all too careless and unthoughtful at times. A chain of circumstances seemed to surround this accident which makes it impossible to place this responsibility. It was just breaking day, raining and blustery, the engine was going backwards. It seems a most impossible thing that the train should approach without them hearing it but it did most certainly, and with a very sad result.
Although the company has gone to a great deal of trouble and expense to prevent pedestrians from making use of their property because of the continuous danger in the practice, yet we find that it is done, even by the most precious persons and oftentimes with the above termination.
Funeral Services for Robert HARRIS was held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. E. Hawkins, interment in the city cemetery. Sympathy for the family is abundant on every hand.
Robert HARRIS was 21 years old. He died December 01, 1913.
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