Show KILLED AT A CROSSING I Tragic Death of Drury Underwood a Noted Western Sportsman I Drury Underwood well known to lovers of fast horses all over the Union as president j I presi-dent of the MissouriKansas Fair and Exposition Ex-position Driving Park association was instantly in-stantly killed in a most shocking manner by a train on the Chicago and Alton railway rail-way near Kansas City the other day He was one of the best known residents of that city and was returning from a days shooting i shoot-ing when the accident happened There is quite a cut where the railroad I crosses Blue avenue and one coming toward Kansas City cannot see either way on the track more than a few rods Yet the trains at that point move tat = t-at their greatest speed ME Un derwood halted listened a moment mo-ment and thinking think-ing no train was 1 l near started on The next instant he realized his er I ror and tried to turn his team but u too late The 1 DIJURY UNDERWOOD train drawn by two engines struck the light wagon and one horse the wagon was crushed to splinters one horse was thrown II sixty feet and Mr Underwood fell just beyond I yond it the horses head resting on his shoulder 1 I Both were instantly killed the man being be-ing badly mangled The other horse I I strange to say standing just beyond the i rail was cut loose from its mate andes I cjiped uninjured yet it did notrun away I but moved about the scene in a dazed way I as if it fully realized the calamity Under wood leaves a widow and ten children The esteem in which he was held was shown by universal sorrow throughout Kansas City |