Note that the obit says interment would be at Butte. It is not clear if this happened and the body was re-interred at Woodbury or if it did happen and the marker at Woodbury is just a memorial.
[from the Butte semi-weekly Miner in Butte, Montana, 5 Sept. 1888, page 2, column 4]
RUN OVER BY THE CARS.
A Montana Central Switchmen Mangled at the Depot.
A switchman named Rufus A. Bisbee was run over yesterday morning at about 8 o'clock by a couple of empty wood cars at the Montana Central depot. A train of sixteen cars, all empty, were being switched, from which it was desired to cut off three. Bisbee stepped in before the third last car and pulled the coupling pin when in some manner he tripped and fell across the rail in front of the thirteen cars backing slowly down, the wheels of two of which ran over him, mangling his body so that he died in fifteen minutes after being released. The cars ran off the track, which was the first intimation that the engineer had that anything was wrong.
He died as he was being taken to the Sisters' Hospital, where the Coroner held an inquest that resulted in a verdict of accidental death, no blame attaching to the company. A telegram was sent by General Agent Dawson to J. A. Bisbee (sic), the young man' father, who lives at Lyle, Minnesota, and an answer returned requesting that the interment take place here.
Mr. Dawson has made arrangements for the funeral to take place on Monday at 2 o'clock, postponing it to that hour to permit the presence of two brothers of Bisbee, who are employed on the Dakota Division of the Northern Pacific road. The deceased was about 30 years of age, unmarried, and had the reputation of being an experienced hand at his business. The remains are in charge of Undertaker Herman, of the Butte Furniture Company.
[from the Butte semi-weekly Miner in Butte, Montana, 5 Sept. 1888, page 2, column 4]
RUN OVER BY THE CARS.
A Montana Central Switchmen Mangled at the Depot.
A switchman named Rufus A. Bisbee was run over yesterday morning at about 8 o'clock by a couple of empty wood cars at the Montana Central depot. A train of sixteen cars, all empty, were being switched, from which it was desired to cut off three. Bisbee stepped in before the third last car and pulled the coupling pin when in some manner he tripped and fell across the rail in front of the thirteen cars backing slowly down, the wheels of two of which ran over him, mangling his body so that he died in fifteen minutes after being released. The cars ran off the track, which was the first intimation that the engineer had that anything was wrong.
He died as he was being taken to the Sisters' Hospital, where the Coroner held an inquest that resulted in a verdict of accidental death, no blame attaching to the company. A telegram was sent by General Agent Dawson to J. A. Bisbee (sic), the young man' father, who lives at Lyle, Minnesota, and an answer returned requesting that the interment take place here.
Mr. Dawson has made arrangements for the funeral to take place on Monday at 2 o'clock, postponing it to that hour to permit the presence of two brothers of Bisbee, who are employed on the Dakota Division of the Northern Pacific road. The deceased was about 30 years of age, unmarried, and had the reputation of being an experienced hand at his business. The remains are in charge of Undertaker Herman, of the Butte Furniture Company.
Note that the obit says interment would be at Butte. It is not clear if this happened and the body was re-interred at Woodbury or if it did happen and the marker at Woodbury is just a memorial.
[from the Butte semi-weekly Miner in Butte, Montana, 5 Sept. 1888, page 2, column 4]
RUN OVER BY THE CARS.
A Montana Central Switchmen Mangled at the Depot.
A switchman named Rufus A. Bisbee was run over yesterday morning at about 8 o'clock by a couple of empty wood cars at the Montana Central depot. A train of sixteen cars, all empty, were being switched, from which it was desired to cut off three. Bisbee stepped in before the third last car and pulled the coupling pin when in some manner he tripped and fell across the rail in front of the thirteen cars backing slowly down, the wheels of two of which ran over him, mangling his body so that he died in fifteen minutes after being released. The cars ran off the track, which was the first intimation that the engineer had that anything was wrong.
He died as he was being taken to the Sisters' Hospital, where the Coroner held an inquest that resulted in a verdict of accidental death, no blame attaching to the company. A telegram was sent by General Agent Dawson to J. A. Bisbee (sic), the young man' father, who lives at Lyle, Minnesota, and an answer returned requesting that the interment take place here.
Mr. Dawson has made arrangements for the funeral to take place on Monday at 2 o'clock, postponing it to that hour to permit the presence of two brothers of Bisbee, who are employed on the Dakota Division of the Northern Pacific road. The deceased was about 30 years of age, unmarried, and had the reputation of being an experienced hand at his business. The remains are in charge of Undertaker Herman, of the Butte Furniture Company.
[from the Butte semi-weekly Miner in Butte, Montana, 5 Sept. 1888, page 2, column 4]
RUN OVER BY THE CARS.
A Montana Central Switchmen Mangled at the Depot.
A switchman named Rufus A. Bisbee was run over yesterday morning at about 8 o'clock by a couple of empty wood cars at the Montana Central depot. A train of sixteen cars, all empty, were being switched, from which it was desired to cut off three. Bisbee stepped in before the third last car and pulled the coupling pin when in some manner he tripped and fell across the rail in front of the thirteen cars backing slowly down, the wheels of two of which ran over him, mangling his body so that he died in fifteen minutes after being released. The cars ran off the track, which was the first intimation that the engineer had that anything was wrong.
He died as he was being taken to the Sisters' Hospital, where the Coroner held an inquest that resulted in a verdict of accidental death, no blame attaching to the company. A telegram was sent by General Agent Dawson to J. A. Bisbee (sic), the young man' father, who lives at Lyle, Minnesota, and an answer returned requesting that the interment take place here.
Mr. Dawson has made arrangements for the funeral to take place on Monday at 2 o'clock, postponing it to that hour to permit the presence of two brothers of Bisbee, who are employed on the Dakota Division of the Northern Pacific road. The deceased was about 30 years of age, unmarried, and had the reputation of being an experienced hand at his business. The remains are in charge of Undertaker Herman, of the Butte Furniture Company.
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