Show THE SAD FUNERAL To the Editor of THE HERALD Funerals have been somewhat frequent fre-quent here during the past few months but today at about 1245 p m the most solitary and melancholy funeral probably that was ever witnessed here left the Court Jailers residence It consisted of one wagon which contained con-tained the remains of a poor unfortunate unfor-tunate man who was found yesterday lying dead on the track of the Central Pacific Railroad west of Three Mile Creek The man was found by John D Roberts Jr yesterday afternoon The County Coroner M L Ensign was notified who at once empanelled a jury and proceeded to the spot and found the man lying in such a position that he appeared to have fallen from a moving train An inquest in-quest was held and there being nothing found upon the psrson of the deceased the coroners jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by falling between the cars of a moving train and by being instantly killed by being run over This morning the coroner had the remains brought to Brigham City and placed in a room of the jailors house where they were viewed by large numbers num-bers of our male citizens The sight was indeed a sickening one The head was severed from thetrunk suspended only by a small portion of flesh The left foot was cut entirely off two or I three inches above the ankle the left i arm was also broken in two or three places The deceased was clothed in a good suit of black clothes a black felt hat a red handkerchief around his neck and had a leather slipper on his right foot He was evidently a man about 60 years of age about feet 10 inches in height The railroad company was notified by telegraph and requested to inquire for his relatives but at this writing nothing has been heard of his identification Dr Davidson and the coroner of this county washed and I dressed his remains and had them interred in-terred in our cemetery in a respectable manner Yours truly SEMIOCCASIONAL BRIGHAM CITY U T Nov 7th 1887 |