| Show killed by a train A horrible discovery was made tuesday morning by john roberts jr of three mile creek as he was out after stock having to cross the central pacific railroad west of three mile creek he found the mangled remains of the body of a man lying across the track trach mr roberts at once sent word to the county coroner M L ensign and that gentleman took a team and dr davidson of brigham city city marshal david rees and a jury eirv out to the spot without delay the body was examined and an inquest was held 0 it was found that the mans head was nearly severed from his body that his left arm was broken in several places and his left boot and ankle ly cutoff cut off there was nothing found on the body that would lead to its present identification except a baggage check arid a key the jury returned a verdict that deceased bad been accidentally killed by falling between the cars of a moving train the remains were gathered up bp and placed tn in a wagon aud brought to bri brigham am city and placed in a room in tale the jailors jailers jai lors house and were viewed by large large numbers of our male population the sight was indeed dreadful and numbers of persons sickened and turned turne daway away the body had bad the appearance pe arance of being that of a man about sixty years of age slightly grey hair head bead partly bald on the top light blue eyes about abou t 5 0 feet 10 inches in highfi and about pounds weight the body was clothed in a good suit I 1 of dark cloth coat and chere there was a slipper on the right foot marshal rees dr davidson aud and coroner M li IL ensign washed and dressed the remains procured a neat coffin in which they the were placed d aad and interred them in the cemetery wednesday e d aday afternoon the railroad authorities were communicated with by telegraph describing the finding of the remains and the check in his pos possession it has since been learned that thai the name of the unfortunate man was samuel boyd and that he was a resident of counell council bluffs iowa logon logan journal nov 9 |
