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Show INDIAN WORKER KILLED IN UNION PACIFIC YARDS An Indian steel gang employee em-ployee was killed in the Union Pacific Railroad yards at 8:45 p. m. Friday. City Marshal Eddie Patterson, first officsr on the scene, said Dr. D. A. Symond pronounced the victim dead of a broken neck. Mr. Patterson, Highway Patrolman Pa-trolman Ronald Gale and Sheriff Sher-iff Mel Tait investigated. Apparently the Indian, Enid Zuni, 41, from Pinedale Trading Trad-ing Post near Gallup, N. M., fell between two tracks 200 yards north of the Union Pacific Pa-cific depot, with his head and shoulders laying over the rails. An incoming freight train struck him, but the cowcatcher pushed him from the rails. The undercarriage of the engine drug him a few yards, breaking break-ing his neck. Gale Banks, engineer of the train, reported to Robert Wright, local agent, that coming com-ing into the yards "we saw an object and apparently hit it." Floyd Bird was fireman on the engine, and Paul Whitesida head brakeman. Sheriff Mel Tait took charge of the body for transfer to relatives. |