Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-14 | Page 2 | Indian's Awful Fate

INDIANS S AWFUL FATE AtE F I 1 I 1 Fragments of tf Body Strewn Along the Track j 1 t LEG AT HOT HOP SPRINGS GS I If i f AND READ BEAD WAS POUND AT AT KAYSVILLE I II S I The severed leg of a man ma pieces of whose who e body were rere found strewn he be tween tw en here and Kaysville ll is the gru grue j some relic of a 8 bloody accident on the Rio Grande Western We t rn yesterday in t which an Indian was ground to pieces beneath the wheels of o a train and his I body strewn for miles along ulong the track The Identity of the victim of the Yf l accident is not known but it is said nid that lie le ll is a halfbreed Indian who was WU seen Been hanging around round the railroad tracks in a drunken condition night I before last The leg which was found on the tracks about l yards jt north of the Hot Springs building was w s discovered shortly after atter 8 3 yesterday morn morning morning ing by a man tuna who was walking up the track He immediately telephoned the police and Detective Sheets and Patrol Driver Armstrong hurried to the scene They found the leg which had been wrenched the body near th hip I and with part of the foot fot cut cul off lying near the time track Its condition con showed that the accident a had occurred only a short time before A search by the of officers officers officers failed to reveal any other part of the body The rhe ghastly ghast object was M brought to the police poUce station and the railroad authorities were communicated communicated communicated with but they the had not heard hoard of any accident and were ware at a loss to ac account account account count fur for it Later in the afternoon a message was received from Farmington that two small pieces of the body had h b en found there and still later Sheriff Ab Abbott Abbott b bbott bott telephoned from Kaysville that the head and part of the body of theman the theman man had been discovered near noar n r there He skid said s id that the head was that of an Indian and asked the police to sand the limb on to him When the time police discovered that the victim i was an tn Indian they attempted attempt d to learn his identity Ide hut but were not notable able to It was learned however that one had been seen staggering around the th tracks in that vicinity the th night before and antl it is supposed that he at ut L tempted to 00 t hoard board the S train ln 1 yesterday morning and fell feU beneath the wheels The limb Jim will be b besent sent to Kaysville I a today and further efforts will be made to discover the identity of the th Indian and the particulars of the accident