Carpenter, Harry died 1899

CARPENTER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 1/1/2012 at 04:03:22

From the Alton Democrat of April 29, 1899
Killed By The Cars.
A sad accident occurred at Boyden Tuesday. As a freight train was pulling into Boyden that evening going east, some one heard the breaking of glass, and upon investigating they found one of the brakeman was missing.
When the train halted at the depot, Conductor Mayo with others went back two or three hundred
yards, and to their sorrow they found Harry Carpenter laying on the tracks terribly mangled. The flesh was torn from both of his legs to above the knees, and both cut off. His right
arm was also cut off just below the elbow,
and his face and head badly bruised. Doctors Gannon and Brink were called to the scene and they did all in their power to alleviate the poor
boy's suffering. He was placed upon a cot and taken to Sheldon where he died about 2:30 the next morning. His parents live at Marion Junction, S, D,, his father being an operator
for the Milwaukee railroad at that place. Harry was spoken of by Conductor Mayo aa being one, of the best boys "he ever knew, he had been with
him as brakeman about a year. No one knows how he fell or just when,as none of the boys knew just where he was at the time, but it is evident that several wheels passed over him. The crash of glass heard was the breaking of his lantern. His parents arrived on a special train about the time he died.