Thomas J. Adams Dies When Train Hits Car. Accident Occurred at East End Crossing in Early Morning Hours. Thomas J. Adams, aged 43 years, a boilermaker helper in the Northern Pacific shops, was killed early Saturday morning when his car was struck and crushed beneath a freight train at the O street crossing. Mr. Adams had started for Clyde Park shortly after 4 a.m. to join his brothers on a hunting trip. He was thrown from the car when it folded up like an accordion under the train while being dragged over 50 yards west from the crossing. He was caught between the brake rods and wheels of a box car and died before he could be liberated. The accident occurred at 4:30 a.m. Dr. P. L. Green was called, and trainmen attempted to free Mr. Adams, but were unable to do so. He died at 5:10, after remaining conscious and talking to the trainmen, instructing them whom to notify "if I don't get out." His right arm was severed at the elbow, and he suffered other serious injuries. When the train was stopped and it was found Adams was trapped they secured jacks and other equipment from the roundhouse to raise the car. They were assisted by Deputy Sheriff Earl Rogers and Police Officers Wm. O'Horn and Ben L. Barr. Mr. Adams was born at Clyde Park, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Adams, and engaged in ranching in the Shields valley for several years before he came to Livingston three years ago to work in the Northern Pacific shops. He leaves his wife, two sons, Tommy, 5 and Bobby, 6; five stepchildren, Mrs. Betty Kanouse and Joan, Anna Lee, Pete and Jimmy Boustadt, and two sons by a former marriage: T. J. Adams, 17 and Arnold Adams, 13 of Livingston. He also leaves four brothers, Theodore and Chester Adams of Clyde Park, John Adams of Livingston and Fred Adams of Fort Peck, and three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Speck of Livingston, Mrs. Susie Frederick of Clyde Park, and Mrs. Ophie Palmer of Condon, Ore.