DIED FROM HIS INJURIES
The Old Man Found Hurt in The Santa Fe Yards Never Became Rational. No One Saw the Accident and He Could Not Tell The Story. A Veteran.
J. W. Baker, the old man who was found lying in the Santa Fe yards last Monday, badly hurt, evidently having been struck by a train, died at the County Hospital yesterday afternoon, never having thoroughly recovered consciousness, or being able to explain the accident.
Baker proves to have been a veteran of the rebellion, and had been an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica. How he came to leave there is not known, the veterans being under easy restraint, and free to come and go, and many of them, after receiving pension money, take a few days away from the institution.
It is supposed that in such a way Baker came to San Bernardino more than a week ago. But how he came to be in the Santa Fe yards, or why he should have been half starved or how he got in the way of a Santa Fe train, nobody knows. He may have fallen off a train, for nobody saw the accident, and Baker died without being able to tell the story.
In the few semi-rational moments that he had, he scoute- the idea that he had been struck by a train, saying that his Injuries had been caused by an electric car. But that was attributed to his state of mind, which was far from clear.
Baker was supposed to be 75 years of age, and it has only been by bits that any information was learned about him. The authorities at the Home were communicated with, when it was found that he had been there, and they stated that he was entitled to return, when he wished to do so. After he died yesterday, word was sent to Santa Monica, asking for instructions as to burial. Coroner Thompson was also notified, and will hold an Inquest today. So far as is known, Baker's only relative is a sister, living in Kentucky.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 3, 2 September 1902 Page 1
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W. J. Baker, the Union veteran who died at the County Hospital Monday afternoon, the result of a mysterious accident in the Santa Fe yards, was buried yesterday from the parlors of Barton & Catick. The inquest held by Dr. Thompson was preceded by an autopsy performed by Dr. John Meyer, who found that the old man's skull had been fractured, which caused his death. At the same point it was discovered that he had an abscess on the brain, which may have partially accounted for his crazed condition, and possibly explained something of the accident, he having wandered into the yards without knowing where he was going, or that he was in danger there.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 4, 3 September 1902 Page 5
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John W Baker in the U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
Name: John W Baker
Birth Year: abt 1827
Keyed Birth Location: Kentucky
Birth State: Kentucky
Admitted Year: 1892
Age at Admission: 65
State: California
County: Los Angeles
City: Sawtelle
Branch: Pacific Branch
The Old Man Found Hurt in The Santa Fe Yards Never Became Rational. No One Saw the Accident and He Could Not Tell The Story. A Veteran.
J. W. Baker, the old man who was found lying in the Santa Fe yards last Monday, badly hurt, evidently having been struck by a train, died at the County Hospital yesterday afternoon, never having thoroughly recovered consciousness, or being able to explain the accident.
Baker proves to have been a veteran of the rebellion, and had been an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica. How he came to leave there is not known, the veterans being under easy restraint, and free to come and go, and many of them, after receiving pension money, take a few days away from the institution.
It is supposed that in such a way Baker came to San Bernardino more than a week ago. But how he came to be in the Santa Fe yards, or why he should have been half starved or how he got in the way of a Santa Fe train, nobody knows. He may have fallen off a train, for nobody saw the accident, and Baker died without being able to tell the story.
In the few semi-rational moments that he had, he scoute- the idea that he had been struck by a train, saying that his Injuries had been caused by an electric car. But that was attributed to his state of mind, which was far from clear.
Baker was supposed to be 75 years of age, and it has only been by bits that any information was learned about him. The authorities at the Home were communicated with, when it was found that he had been there, and they stated that he was entitled to return, when he wished to do so. After he died yesterday, word was sent to Santa Monica, asking for instructions as to burial. Coroner Thompson was also notified, and will hold an Inquest today. So far as is known, Baker's only relative is a sister, living in Kentucky.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 3, 2 September 1902 Page 1
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W. J. Baker, the Union veteran who died at the County Hospital Monday afternoon, the result of a mysterious accident in the Santa Fe yards, was buried yesterday from the parlors of Barton & Catick. The inquest held by Dr. Thompson was preceded by an autopsy performed by Dr. John Meyer, who found that the old man's skull had been fractured, which caused his death. At the same point it was discovered that he had an abscess on the brain, which may have partially accounted for his crazed condition, and possibly explained something of the accident, he having wandered into the yards without knowing where he was going, or that he was in danger there.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 4, 3 September 1902 Page 5
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John W Baker in the U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
Name: John W Baker
Birth Year: abt 1827
Keyed Birth Location: Kentucky
Birth State: Kentucky
Admitted Year: 1892
Age at Admission: 65
State: California
County: Los Angeles
City: Sawtelle
Branch: Pacific Branch
DIED FROM HIS INJURIES
The Old Man Found Hurt in The Santa Fe Yards Never Became Rational. No One Saw the Accident and He Could Not Tell The Story. A Veteran.
J. W. Baker, the old man who was found lying in the Santa Fe yards last Monday, badly hurt, evidently having been struck by a train, died at the County Hospital yesterday afternoon, never having thoroughly recovered consciousness, or being able to explain the accident.
Baker proves to have been a veteran of the rebellion, and had been an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica. How he came to leave there is not known, the veterans being under easy restraint, and free to come and go, and many of them, after receiving pension money, take a few days away from the institution.
It is supposed that in such a way Baker came to San Bernardino more than a week ago. But how he came to be in the Santa Fe yards, or why he should have been half starved or how he got in the way of a Santa Fe train, nobody knows. He may have fallen off a train, for nobody saw the accident, and Baker died without being able to tell the story.
In the few semi-rational moments that he had, he scoute- the idea that he had been struck by a train, saying that his Injuries had been caused by an electric car. But that was attributed to his state of mind, which was far from clear.
Baker was supposed to be 75 years of age, and it has only been by bits that any information was learned about him. The authorities at the Home were communicated with, when it was found that he had been there, and they stated that he was entitled to return, when he wished to do so. After he died yesterday, word was sent to Santa Monica, asking for instructions as to burial. Coroner Thompson was also notified, and will hold an Inquest today. So far as is known, Baker's only relative is a sister, living in Kentucky.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 3, 2 September 1902 Page 1
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W. J. Baker, the Union veteran who died at the County Hospital Monday afternoon, the result of a mysterious accident in the Santa Fe yards, was buried yesterday from the parlors of Barton & Catick. The inquest held by Dr. Thompson was preceded by an autopsy performed by Dr. John Meyer, who found that the old man's skull had been fractured, which caused his death. At the same point it was discovered that he had an abscess on the brain, which may have partially accounted for his crazed condition, and possibly explained something of the accident, he having wandered into the yards without knowing where he was going, or that he was in danger there.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 4, 3 September 1902 Page 5
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John W Baker in the U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
Name: John W Baker
Birth Year: abt 1827
Keyed Birth Location: Kentucky
Birth State: Kentucky
Admitted Year: 1892
Age at Admission: 65
State: California
County: Los Angeles
City: Sawtelle
Branch: Pacific Branch
The Old Man Found Hurt in The Santa Fe Yards Never Became Rational. No One Saw the Accident and He Could Not Tell The Story. A Veteran.
J. W. Baker, the old man who was found lying in the Santa Fe yards last Monday, badly hurt, evidently having been struck by a train, died at the County Hospital yesterday afternoon, never having thoroughly recovered consciousness, or being able to explain the accident.
Baker proves to have been a veteran of the rebellion, and had been an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica. How he came to leave there is not known, the veterans being under easy restraint, and free to come and go, and many of them, after receiving pension money, take a few days away from the institution.
It is supposed that in such a way Baker came to San Bernardino more than a week ago. But how he came to be in the Santa Fe yards, or why he should have been half starved or how he got in the way of a Santa Fe train, nobody knows. He may have fallen off a train, for nobody saw the accident, and Baker died without being able to tell the story.
In the few semi-rational moments that he had, he scoute- the idea that he had been struck by a train, saying that his Injuries had been caused by an electric car. But that was attributed to his state of mind, which was far from clear.
Baker was supposed to be 75 years of age, and it has only been by bits that any information was learned about him. The authorities at the Home were communicated with, when it was found that he had been there, and they stated that he was entitled to return, when he wished to do so. After he died yesterday, word was sent to Santa Monica, asking for instructions as to burial. Coroner Thompson was also notified, and will hold an Inquest today. So far as is known, Baker's only relative is a sister, living in Kentucky.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 3, 2 September 1902 Page 1
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W. J. Baker, the Union veteran who died at the County Hospital Monday afternoon, the result of a mysterious accident in the Santa Fe yards, was buried yesterday from the parlors of Barton & Catick. The inquest held by Dr. Thompson was preceded by an autopsy performed by Dr. John Meyer, who found that the old man's skull had been fractured, which caused his death. At the same point it was discovered that he had an abscess on the brain, which may have partially accounted for his crazed condition, and possibly explained something of the accident, he having wandered into the yards without knowing where he was going, or that he was in danger there.
San Bernardino Sun, Volume 17, Number 4, 3 September 1902 Page 5
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John W Baker in the U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938
Name: John W Baker
Birth Year: abt 1827
Keyed Birth Location: Kentucky
Birth State: Kentucky
Admitted Year: 1892
Age at Admission: 65
State: California
County: Los Angeles
City: Sawtelle
Branch: Pacific Branch
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