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Show I eOY IS ENSTANTLY I IIUEJJI TRAIN 3 Albert Kohl, Aged Ten Years, I Meets With Most Tragic Iff STRUCK KY ENGINE ON I THE SALT LAKE ROUTE If Scene of Accident Is Eighth I I Wesi and Ninth South H 11 Albert Kohl, son of Mr. anil Mrs. I li Ferdinand Kohl of S35 Fayette avenue, I ft w,ls struc'c un(' inslantly killed by a. III train on the Salt Lake Route. Monday H i& afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at JSiirhth I n "West and 2s int h South streets. 11! The boy, -who would have been 11 H II years old Thursday, was yoinjr homo Iff from school with a number of his com-HJ com-HJ II pan ions, and they wore playinir near H II the railroad tracks, when the train was lu approaching, klnginccr Thomas V. H In JIanson saw the boys and sounded the 181 uiino whistle. 'IM103- benn to teat-I teat-I IK ,lM wnon lMtv ,Mcf npproaehinir 19 train, tonic orossinsr the tracks anil I others running away from them. The Sit Kohl bov evidently attempted to cross H fl die tracks, and, beoniini: thisl rated, H Jl started to qo one way ami then the iff other, resulting in his bcintr struck by W? 1np engine. Ho was thrown through III a fence by the side of the railroad HUH tracks and his body dropped in the Hfu snow. In Engineer Hanson threw on tho cmor- HJ genev brakes and brought the train to Ifttn J1 s'l' as Wiickly is possible. Members I lift f '10 ,ra'n crow and persons who wit- iwi uessod the accident ran to where tho Hy bov lay. Thev nicked the lad up. and 9fl some t liinkincr that, there was still life N loft wanted him brought into the city. Inj The body was taken" fo the Oregon Short lilt Line depot on the train which had ill cam?ed the fatality, but upou arriving Hn there 11 was seen by closer cxamiua-llun cxamiua-llun lion that the boy was dead. Ijfj Coroner Is Notified. MrM Coroner Stanley A. Tlanks was no-IIS no-IIS tified of (he accident and went to the In Oregon Short Lino depot, where he took lilfl 1nn testimony of the. train crew and I Hi others who witnessed the accident.- lie 111 1 1,0,1 ordered t lie body given into the 111 charge of Undertaker Joseph "William IH Tavlor. who. after taking it to his tin-IH tin-IH .iertaking establishment on- West Tom-HH Tom-HH p'e street, communicated with tho boy's IJM father, who requested that the remains H bo seat to tho family home. li Kngijieer JIanson said to Coroner ill Hanks that he saw the boys about I ( iwcnty-live .yards ahead of lmn on the wj 1rack." and' as quickly as possible III Hounded the danger whistle. Previous I ill " stcing l'10 1)0.VS. he had whistled' fur I IB 1 ,u' ?tr00' crossing near where the lad 111 I Wailing 'at the crossing for the train III " n-v w:,s George Cannon, 31. H. lid ( lavton'and A. II. Cannon, all of whom IM The fireman on the engine wns George Siin'ev. f ho conductor W. II llM Blood and Ihe brakemau V. H. Stark. HHj Manv bones in the boy's body were DM broken. Xo arrangements have been. I1H made for the funeral. Hm9 The bov's father is an employee of I12B the Hell Telephone company. |