Show A FEARFUL ACCIDENT charles jeukins run over by the cars and cut lo 10 pieces A fatal accident occurred at the old depot yesterday morning charles jenkins an old and favorably known blacksmith in this city residing on twenty seventh between wall and lincoln was run over by the cars near the old express officio and instantly killed the accident occurred at 1130 as j near as could be learned and soon after a reporter of the standard visited the spot and after careful inquiry obtained the following particulars jeakins was at the depot where it was said by some that he was fixing an engine though that statement is denied by others so far no one has been found who the accident and howit occurred and therefore nothing but speculation can be offered as to the cause of the accident it is bow ever known that two trains were coming on the tracks one from the IL P yards coming north and the othero ing south toward the S P freight hoase it is supposed that he got between these two trains or rather that while watching thes P train go by he was standing on the TJ P track unconscious of the approach of the U P switch engine pushing a long train it is plainly evident that he was knocked down by the first car of the U P train as blood can be found on the first wheel of that car and the train was not moved from the time the body was found until after the verdict of the coroners jury then on the axle of the seventh ear from the first can be found a large blotch of blood as if in his death struggles be had struck the axle and the blood spattered to the wheels fifteen cara of the train passed over him and three wheels of the sixteenth A callboy at the depot noticed him after the fifteenth car had passed over him and shouted to the engineer to stop and the train was almost immediately mr bulen a switchman was the first to approach him and he found him with the tongue sticking out from the mouth and the features unrecognizable for blood and dirt the unfortunate man was taken out from under the wheels and placed in the little addition to the south of the express office and covered with ice awaiting the arrival of the when found he was lying ina pool of blood and fully a pound of flesh was sticking on the rails several hours after the accident while looking at the spot choro he was picked upa reporter of the standard noticed that between thea rails were held together by the ash plates was filled up with something that took his attention getting a stick tho substance was extracted and was found to be the thumb of the right hand of the poor man squeezed into the hole until there was nothing but the skin and the nail hanging to a few threads of flesh it was taken in tc the rest of the body ogden standard |