Farmer, Henry died 1899

FARMER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 10/17/2020 at 15:00:48

Source: Decorah Republican Nov. 16, 1899 P 8 C 3

Killed by an Engine.
McGregor, Nov. 11.—A man named Farmer was run over and killed by a Milwaukee switch engine in the yards at North McGregor this evening. The engineer said he first observed the man lying on the track just before the engine struck him.

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Added by S.Ferrall 10/17/2020:

~Clayton County Record of Deaths, Vol A, pg 10:
Henry Farmer, age 38, occupation: Railroad man, killed in accident Oct 1899, burial: Mendon twp.

~McGregor News, Wednesday, November 15, 1899, pg 5:
ACCIDENT AT WEST YARDS
Saturday evening about 8 o'clock Henry Farmer was killed at the West Yards at North McGregor by switch engine No. 1003, Wm. Keen, engineer.

He was seen about an hour before walking up the track in a very intoxicated condition. Mr. Keen says he saw an object lying in the middle of the track, but thought it a pile of cinders. When he passed over it he felt a jar and knew he had run over something. He stopped the engine and went back, and found Henry Farmer lying in the middle of the track. His right leg severed below the knee, left foot cut half off, head split open, wrist broken and bruised on the side.

Coroner Scholz of Guttenberg, was notified and came up and held an inquest. He impaneled a jury, who after hearing the evidence rendered a verdict that Henry Farmer came to his death by being run over by switch engine No. 1003, while in an intoxicated condition and exhonerating the railroad company from any blame.