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Show DEATH CLAMS MAN !N RAILROAD YARDS John Scowfield, 5S, of Oklahoma, dropped dead at the Union Pacific yards early Sunday morning as he attempted to board a westbound freight train. Scowfield, with four friends ,ar-rived ,ar-rived in Mil ford in a potato car, en-route en-route to Las Vegas. Special officer Harvey Hedges discovered the quartet quar-tet when the train pulled into the freight yards, and ordered them out of the car. They went into the waiting wait-ing room at the depot to warm, but when the train started to pull out, ran along the length of the train endeavoring en-deavoring to find an empty car to continue their journey. One of the men accompanying Scowfield, and a friend of the dead man for forty years, reported later that Scowfield stumbled and fell, but got up and said he was alright. However ,a few minutes later when he looked around Scowfield had again fallen on his face. He turned him over, only to find him breathing his last. Mr. Hedges called Dr. Bybee, who reported that the man had died of heart trouble agitated by a cold and touch of pneumonia. Scowfield and his friend Folkner had come from South Dakota, but had stopped enroute at Victor, Colo., to visit Scowfield's daughter at that place. The daughter was notified by wire by the Milford town authorities, and a return wire stated that on account ac-count of the accidental death of a brother the previous Friday, she could send no funds for burial. The body was taken in charge by the county and buried Tuesday. Scowfield had another daughter in Colorado, who could not be located. o |