Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

KILLED BY TRAIN
The Life Crushed out of Eyestone, Sunday Morning,
WHILE UNCOUPLING CAR
In the Yards of the St. Louis and S.F. Railroad

A fatal accident occurred Sunday morning at the Frisco yards about 5 o’clock, in which Isaac Eyestone, a brakeman on a freight train, was so badly crushed that he died in two hours after he was hurt. He was uncoupling a boxcar from the engine and was between them, when his foot got caught in a frog and he fell, the trucks running over his hips and crushing him beyond hope of recovery. After the first truck ran over him, he struggled to get from under the train, when another truck ran over his legs breaking both of them.
He was lifted out from under the train and taken to the sanitarium. Nothing could be done for him and he died 7:00 o’clock.
Mr. Eyestone was a young, unmarried man and lived at Enid. He has been braking only a short time, and had made but few runs. He has a brother who is a conductor on a passenger train, on the same road.
His remains were taken to Pittsburg, Kans., where they will be buried by the side of other of his family. [Date of Death:September 27, 1903]