McNally, John 1874-1906

MCNALLY, MCBRIDE

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/16/2023 at 17:46:37

McNally, John born abt 1874 30 yrs born ILL died Sep 1. 1906 Granville died of foot injury. Parents were Thos. McNally and Mary McBride. Source Sioux county death record.

Alton Democrat of Sep 8th 11906

Man Crushed - Friday night a man named John Mc Nally was struck by an east bound freight train at Granville and severely mangled. Dr. Ream was called by the brakeman of the train and found the man bleeding seriously from the mouth. He quickly tied the labial artery and had the man carried to the council room. He then summoned Dr. Gleysteen of Alton, the district surgeon of the rail road but before he could arrive it was deemed expedient by Drs. Ream and Bowers to start patching him up. The three doctors worked all nigh over the man and had just finished straightening and bandaging him when he died. His injuries were numerous and serious and presented an array of surgical work such as not often falls to the lot of a surgeon to do on one man. The face was torn away from the lower jaw, the skin was scraped from the chest, the left arm was riddled, the left patella was fractured and knee broken, the right foot was crushed off and the right thigh was broken numerous places. The doctors succeeded in remaking the presentable person from the horrible mass of bruised and torn human flesh.

But by their greatest efforts they could not keep its spiritual tenant from departing. Saturday morning a brother and other relatives came and claimed the body. The dead man was a traveling tinker and made bottle cleaners and other wire articles. He had done a good days business in Granville and had gone to the depot to take the night freight for Alton , It was supposed he sat down on the edge of the platform to wait and being tired had fallen asleep. It seems strange that he was not seen by either engineer or fireman who could easily have stopped the trin unless it was faster than it should though town. The dead man was some thirty yeas old. His home was in Dixon IL where he leaves an old mother. His brother is a conductor on the Northwestern.