Switchman killed in Local Yard
George Thompson 31,1400 Main a Santa Fe switchman, was killed about 1 o'clock this afternoon in a switching accident tin the local yard about 150 feet east of the Fourteenth street viaduct on the Santa tracks.
Apparently Thompson caught one of his hands, or on of his feet, in an attempt to couple two freight cars and was dragged beneath one of the cars.
The wheels of the car ran over his body, His body was crushed diagonally from the right shoulder to the left hip and was found face down near a switch.
No won saw the accident, happen, according to Coroner Carl Nestler.
No other members of the serving crew were Roy Highfill, foreman, and T. O. Jensen. There was no fireman on the Diesel engine.
The locomotives pushing a string of four cars, was attempt to couple into a fifth car, near a side-track swict. The cup puling did not hold and that car was pushed 15 to 20 feet ahead. There was blood on the coupling of the car and Thompson's switching stick was found on the top of the coupling,
It was the end car of the four car string that ran over Thompson,
Highfill and Lee Poras, a car inspector, heard Thompson scream "Oh God My toe, my toe."
The two men rushed to the side of the train where Thompson had been working and found his body on the track. Highfill became ill and had to be taken to his home,
Thompson's body was removed to the Harouff & Buis mortuary after an investigation at the scene by the coroner and Santa Fe officials.
Thompson entered the employ of the Santa Fe as a switchman about a year ago. He is married and has two small children.
George Thompson 31,1400 Main a Santa Fe switchman, was killed about 1 o'clock this afternoon in a switching accident tin the local yard about 150 feet east of the Fourteenth street viaduct on the Santa tracks.
Apparently Thompson caught one of his hands, or on of his feet, in an attempt to couple two freight cars and was dragged beneath one of the cars.
The wheels of the car ran over his body, His body was crushed diagonally from the right shoulder to the left hip and was found face down near a switch.
No won saw the accident, happen, according to Coroner Carl Nestler.
No other members of the serving crew were Roy Highfill, foreman, and T. O. Jensen. There was no fireman on the Diesel engine.
The locomotives pushing a string of four cars, was attempt to couple into a fifth car, near a side-track swict. The cup puling did not hold and that car was pushed 15 to 20 feet ahead. There was blood on the coupling of the car and Thompson's switching stick was found on the top of the coupling,
It was the end car of the four car string that ran over Thompson,
Highfill and Lee Poras, a car inspector, heard Thompson scream "Oh God My toe, my toe."
The two men rushed to the side of the train where Thompson had been working and found his body on the track. Highfill became ill and had to be taken to his home,
Thompson's body was removed to the Harouff & Buis mortuary after an investigation at the scene by the coroner and Santa Fe officials.
Thompson entered the employ of the Santa Fe as a switchman about a year ago. He is married and has two small children.
Switchman killed in Local Yard
George Thompson 31,1400 Main a Santa Fe switchman, was killed about 1 o'clock this afternoon in a switching accident tin the local yard about 150 feet east of the Fourteenth street viaduct on the Santa tracks.
Apparently Thompson caught one of his hands, or on of his feet, in an attempt to couple two freight cars and was dragged beneath one of the cars.
The wheels of the car ran over his body, His body was crushed diagonally from the right shoulder to the left hip and was found face down near a switch.
No won saw the accident, happen, according to Coroner Carl Nestler.
No other members of the serving crew were Roy Highfill, foreman, and T. O. Jensen. There was no fireman on the Diesel engine.
The locomotives pushing a string of four cars, was attempt to couple into a fifth car, near a side-track swict. The cup puling did not hold and that car was pushed 15 to 20 feet ahead. There was blood on the coupling of the car and Thompson's switching stick was found on the top of the coupling,
It was the end car of the four car string that ran over Thompson,
Highfill and Lee Poras, a car inspector, heard Thompson scream "Oh God My toe, my toe."
The two men rushed to the side of the train where Thompson had been working and found his body on the track. Highfill became ill and had to be taken to his home,
Thompson's body was removed to the Harouff & Buis mortuary after an investigation at the scene by the coroner and Santa Fe officials.
Thompson entered the employ of the Santa Fe as a switchman about a year ago. He is married and has two small children.
George Thompson 31,1400 Main a Santa Fe switchman, was killed about 1 o'clock this afternoon in a switching accident tin the local yard about 150 feet east of the Fourteenth street viaduct on the Santa tracks.
Apparently Thompson caught one of his hands, or on of his feet, in an attempt to couple two freight cars and was dragged beneath one of the cars.
The wheels of the car ran over his body, His body was crushed diagonally from the right shoulder to the left hip and was found face down near a switch.
No won saw the accident, happen, according to Coroner Carl Nestler.
No other members of the serving crew were Roy Highfill, foreman, and T. O. Jensen. There was no fireman on the Diesel engine.
The locomotives pushing a string of four cars, was attempt to couple into a fifth car, near a side-track swict. The cup puling did not hold and that car was pushed 15 to 20 feet ahead. There was blood on the coupling of the car and Thompson's switching stick was found on the top of the coupling,
It was the end car of the four car string that ran over Thompson,
Highfill and Lee Poras, a car inspector, heard Thompson scream "Oh God My toe, my toe."
The two men rushed to the side of the train where Thompson had been working and found his body on the track. Highfill became ill and had to be taken to his home,
Thompson's body was removed to the Harouff & Buis mortuary after an investigation at the scene by the coroner and Santa Fe officials.
Thompson entered the employ of the Santa Fe as a switchman about a year ago. He is married and has two small children.
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