SWITCH MAN'S
HEAD IS CUT
FROM BODY
HARLEY ADAMS, 23 YEARS OF
AGE, MET INSTANT DEATH
IN THE SOUTH YARDS
THIS MORNING.
FUNERAL WILL BE THURSDAY
Victim Lost Hold While Attempting
to Climb On Top of Flat
Car Loaded With Poles,
Harley David Adams, 23 years of
age, switchman at the South Yards
of the Pennsylvania, was instantly
killed at 6:47 o'clock this morning.
His head was severed from his body.
Adams was engaged in helping to
make up a freight train. He had
completed running a cut of flat cars
loaded with telephone poles onto track
No. 84 where it was picked up
by the remainder of the train. It then
appears he attempted to climb on
the first of the cut of cars just
picked up when he lost his hold and
fell striking a switch signal which
threw him under the train.
George H. Kane, 1323 East Market
street, was a witness to the accident.
He declared he was going to
work at the time of the accident and
was within seventy-five feet of the
place where the accident happened.
He told Coroner Stewart that it appeared
that as he climbed to the
top of the car his hold slipped and
he fell under the car.
Deceased was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Adams, residing six miles
west of Star City. He had been in
the employ of the Pennsylvania since
June this year. He is survived by
the widow and two children, a boy
4 years of age, and a girl 11 months
old.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at 1:30 from the South
side U. B. church, conducted by the
Rev. Champlin. Interment will be
made in Mt. Hope cemetery. Deceased
lived with his family in 224 1/2
East Market street.
Coroner M. B. Stewart announced
today the inquest would be held Fri-
day morning at 9 o'clock-in the north
court room.
THE LOGANSPORT PHAROS-TRIBUNE
LOGANSPORT, INDIANA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920
HEAD IS CUT
FROM BODY
HARLEY ADAMS, 23 YEARS OF
AGE, MET INSTANT DEATH
IN THE SOUTH YARDS
THIS MORNING.
FUNERAL WILL BE THURSDAY
Victim Lost Hold While Attempting
to Climb On Top of Flat
Car Loaded With Poles,
Harley David Adams, 23 years of
age, switchman at the South Yards
of the Pennsylvania, was instantly
killed at 6:47 o'clock this morning.
His head was severed from his body.
Adams was engaged in helping to
make up a freight train. He had
completed running a cut of flat cars
loaded with telephone poles onto track
No. 84 where it was picked up
by the remainder of the train. It then
appears he attempted to climb on
the first of the cut of cars just
picked up when he lost his hold and
fell striking a switch signal which
threw him under the train.
George H. Kane, 1323 East Market
street, was a witness to the accident.
He declared he was going to
work at the time of the accident and
was within seventy-five feet of the
place where the accident happened.
He told Coroner Stewart that it appeared
that as he climbed to the
top of the car his hold slipped and
he fell under the car.
Deceased was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Adams, residing six miles
west of Star City. He had been in
the employ of the Pennsylvania since
June this year. He is survived by
the widow and two children, a boy
4 years of age, and a girl 11 months
old.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at 1:30 from the South
side U. B. church, conducted by the
Rev. Champlin. Interment will be
made in Mt. Hope cemetery. Deceased
lived with his family in 224 1/2
East Market street.
Coroner M. B. Stewart announced
today the inquest would be held Fri-
day morning at 9 o'clock-in the north
court room.
THE LOGANSPORT PHAROS-TRIBUNE
LOGANSPORT, INDIANA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920
SWITCH MAN'S
HEAD IS CUT
FROM BODY
HARLEY ADAMS, 23 YEARS OF
AGE, MET INSTANT DEATH
IN THE SOUTH YARDS
THIS MORNING.
FUNERAL WILL BE THURSDAY
Victim Lost Hold While Attempting
to Climb On Top of Flat
Car Loaded With Poles,
Harley David Adams, 23 years of
age, switchman at the South Yards
of the Pennsylvania, was instantly
killed at 6:47 o'clock this morning.
His head was severed from his body.
Adams was engaged in helping to
make up a freight train. He had
completed running a cut of flat cars
loaded with telephone poles onto track
No. 84 where it was picked up
by the remainder of the train. It then
appears he attempted to climb on
the first of the cut of cars just
picked up when he lost his hold and
fell striking a switch signal which
threw him under the train.
George H. Kane, 1323 East Market
street, was a witness to the accident.
He declared he was going to
work at the time of the accident and
was within seventy-five feet of the
place where the accident happened.
He told Coroner Stewart that it appeared
that as he climbed to the
top of the car his hold slipped and
he fell under the car.
Deceased was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Adams, residing six miles
west of Star City. He had been in
the employ of the Pennsylvania since
June this year. He is survived by
the widow and two children, a boy
4 years of age, and a girl 11 months
old.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at 1:30 from the South
side U. B. church, conducted by the
Rev. Champlin. Interment will be
made in Mt. Hope cemetery. Deceased
lived with his family in 224 1/2
East Market street.
Coroner M. B. Stewart announced
today the inquest would be held Fri-
day morning at 9 o'clock-in the north
court room.
THE LOGANSPORT PHAROS-TRIBUNE
LOGANSPORT, INDIANA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920
HEAD IS CUT
FROM BODY
HARLEY ADAMS, 23 YEARS OF
AGE, MET INSTANT DEATH
IN THE SOUTH YARDS
THIS MORNING.
FUNERAL WILL BE THURSDAY
Victim Lost Hold While Attempting
to Climb On Top of Flat
Car Loaded With Poles,
Harley David Adams, 23 years of
age, switchman at the South Yards
of the Pennsylvania, was instantly
killed at 6:47 o'clock this morning.
His head was severed from his body.
Adams was engaged in helping to
make up a freight train. He had
completed running a cut of flat cars
loaded with telephone poles onto track
No. 84 where it was picked up
by the remainder of the train. It then
appears he attempted to climb on
the first of the cut of cars just
picked up when he lost his hold and
fell striking a switch signal which
threw him under the train.
George H. Kane, 1323 East Market
street, was a witness to the accident.
He declared he was going to
work at the time of the accident and
was within seventy-five feet of the
place where the accident happened.
He told Coroner Stewart that it appeared
that as he climbed to the
top of the car his hold slipped and
he fell under the car.
Deceased was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Adams, residing six miles
west of Star City. He had been in
the employ of the Pennsylvania since
June this year. He is survived by
the widow and two children, a boy
4 years of age, and a girl 11 months
old.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at 1:30 from the South
side U. B. church, conducted by the
Rev. Champlin. Interment will be
made in Mt. Hope cemetery. Deceased
lived with his family in 224 1/2
East Market street.
Coroner M. B. Stewart announced
today the inquest would be held Fri-
day morning at 9 o'clock-in the north
court room.
THE LOGANSPORT PHAROS-TRIBUNE
LOGANSPORT, INDIANA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920
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