THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES
Tuesday, June 26, 1900

BRAKEMAN BOYD KILLED.

DROPS FROM A MOVING TRAIN
AND IS RUN DOWN.

TRAIN WAS SWITCHING CARS
NEAR PLATTE CITY - WAS
CLIMBING A FREIGHT CAR
AND SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN
KNOCKED OFF BY CARS ON
THE SIDING - WAS A BROTHER
OF C.H. BOYD.

A.J. Boyd was killed near Platte City yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock. He was run over by a loaded box car while a Rock Island train was doing some switching. No one saw the accident, as it was dark, but W.P. McCleary, another brakeman who was standing at the switch, was the first to find him.

McCleary's story is as follows: "We were switching a large box car on to a side track and Art was riding on the car, while I was tending the switch. As the car he was on went past met, he was on the ladder and climbing to the top. There were several flat cars on the siding and the supposition is that either he did not know they were there or miscalculated their distance from him. After I heard the cars bump, I waited for him to give me a signal to move the train. As none came, I called to him. Still I got no answer, so I went back to the caboose and called again. There I met another train man and he asked, "Where is Boyd?"

"I told him I did not know."

"It then came to me that we might have killed him, and the brakeman walked up one side of the cars, I the other. About twenty or thirty feet from the switch, I found him. He was laying across the rail with his legs under the car and his body on the outside. He was cut in two parts, four wheels having passed over him. Death must have been instantaneous, for I heard no sound from him."

Boyd was well liked by the trainmen and they say he was a very careful man. He leaves a wife and a child about six months old. In addition he leaves a father, mother, one brother and one sister. His father, Allen R. Boyd, is a contractor and builder and his brother, C.H. Boyd, works at the carpenter trade.
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THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES
Wednesday, June 27, 1900

FUNERAL OF ARTHUR BOYD

The funeral of Arthur Boyd, the Rock Island brakeman, who was killed Monday morning, while helping to switch cars from the train on which hew at work was not held yesterday morning, but was postponed until this morning, to await the arrival of his sisters from Colorado. His sisters, Mrs. J.W. Newby and Mrs. Paul Wood and children arrived from Denver last night. The funeral will be held from the family home at Ninth and Walnut street this morning. Boyd's hojme had been in Atchison, where he was well known and popular. He only recently moved to Leavenworth.
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THE ATCHISON CHAMPION
Saturday, 30 June 1900

DEATHS

Boyd

Arthur Boyd, a Rock Island brakeman, who lived in Atchison prior to April and since then in Leavenworth, was killed at Platte City Monday. The train was switching and Boyd fell from a car. He was buried at Leavenworth.