NOVEMBER 15, 1919
TRAIN KILLS A BRAKEMAN
CARS RUNNING WILD HIT M. M. HILL
Fatal Accident This Afternoon at Missouri Pacific Switch Near Quarries
Fifteen freight cars running wild, struck and killed M. M. Hill, a Missouri Pacific brakeman at 1:20 o'clock this afternoon.
The accident happened at Hilltop, the "Y" switch north of the stone quarries. Fifteen, of the 17 cars in the freight train, an extra headed for Ft. Scott, had been cut off, the engine running forward with two cars attached, to couple on a car standing on the siding.
Hill was adjusting a draw bar on one of the forward cars, with his back to the string of cars on the hillside. The brakes on the rear string had not been tightly set and they started forward down the incline.
Hill was struck in the back, without noticing the approach of the cars running wild. His body fell across one rail and was cut entirely in two.
The body was picked up and placed in a bed quilt that was in the caboose, and brought back to the Missouri Pacific station in the caboose. The Knell ambulance brought the remains up town. The body is now in the Knell morgue, awaiting the arrival of the coroner, who was notified at once by Fred Knell.
If an inquest can be held this evening the body will be taken to Nevada on the evening passenger train.
M. M. Hill had been braking on the Missouri Pacific eleven years. He has a wife and four children living in Nevada and his parents live near that city.
The death certificate can be viewed online at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant was his wife, Mae Hill
NOVEMBER 15, 1919
TRAIN KILLS A BRAKEMAN
CARS RUNNING WILD HIT M. M. HILL
Fatal Accident This Afternoon at Missouri Pacific Switch Near Quarries
Fifteen freight cars running wild, struck and killed M. M. Hill, a Missouri Pacific brakeman at 1:20 o'clock this afternoon.
The accident happened at Hilltop, the "Y" switch north of the stone quarries. Fifteen, of the 17 cars in the freight train, an extra headed for Ft. Scott, had been cut off, the engine running forward with two cars attached, to couple on a car standing on the siding.
Hill was adjusting a draw bar on one of the forward cars, with his back to the string of cars on the hillside. The brakes on the rear string had not been tightly set and they started forward down the incline.
Hill was struck in the back, without noticing the approach of the cars running wild. His body fell across one rail and was cut entirely in two.
The body was picked up and placed in a bed quilt that was in the caboose, and brought back to the Missouri Pacific station in the caboose. The Knell ambulance brought the remains up town. The body is now in the Knell morgue, awaiting the arrival of the coroner, who was notified at once by Fred Knell.
If an inquest can be held this evening the body will be taken to Nevada on the evening passenger train.
M. M. Hill had been braking on the Missouri Pacific eleven years. He has a wife and four children living in Nevada and his parents live near that city.
The death certificate can be viewed online at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant was his wife, Mae Hill
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Esther E Hill White
1876–1963
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Theodora G "Dora" Hill
1877–1937
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Edith Rosamond Hill Foster
1880–1928
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Oscar William Hill
1882–1967
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Sumner Marlow Hill
1884–1930
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Birdie Ann Hill
1888–1972
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John Joseph Hill
1890–1970
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George Orville Hill
1893–1945
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True Clyde Hill
1895–1976
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Floyd Orison "Floy" Hill
1899–1968
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