Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

W.H. Rogers, a brakeman in the employ of the B.E.S. line, was run over and killed while working in the Frisco yards here, Monday morning. At the inquest by Justice of the Peace J.M. Bunten, in his office. Monday morning, it developed, that Mr. Rogers, had gone to work as brakeman for the B.E.S. just the morning of the accident. The crew had been switching, and was pulling up to the depot, when one of the train men, heard a sound that he described as one which once heard is never forgotten, the sound of running over a body of some kind, and he immediately had the train stopped, and a search resulted in the finding of the body of Rogers. He had been rolled and dragged for something like 50 or 70 yards and was dead when found. He had been giving signals only a few moments before, and had not been missed, and the manner of his death is only conjecture. He was horribly mangled, and had half a dozen injuries any one, which would have been fatal. His watch had stopped at 6:08, and that is undoubtedly the time of his death. His mother lives in Weir City, Kans., and a brother and sister in Joplin, Mo. The deceased was 32 years of age and had been at one time an employee of the Frisco. The body was prepared by Undertaker Kyger, and shipped to the mother at Weir City. It is the first fatal accident B.E.S., and while in no way responsible, the management deeply regret the occurrence.