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Excerpt from the Front Page of The Parsons Daily Sun, Oct. 16, 1916:
Guilford Bolander, 28 years of age, switch engine fireman for the Katy, was killed last night about 6:40 o'clock in the north freight yards, opposite the yard house.
He was found under a string of box cars standing on the caboose track, by a Mexican, who notified the men at the yard office. The body was taken to the Ellis and Martin morgue.
Bolander was called for at 7 o'clock and left his home at 2515 Oak Avenue about 6:30 o'clock for the roundhouse. And that was the last seen of him until the Mexican discovered his dead body under the cars.
No one saw the accident which resulted in the man's death. But it is supposed he was climbing over the cars, which had an engine on one end and a sudden jolt of the string caused him to loose his footing and he fell beneath the train. The cars passed over his abdomen and across his chest. Death no doubt being instantaneous.
A coroner's inquest is being held this afternoon in Justice Well's court.
Guilford Bolander was born on a farm one and a half miles north of Dennis, Kansas, and came to Parsons about six years ago, to work for the Katy.
He is survived by a widow and three children; his parents; four brothers; and three sisters.
He was member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Fireman.
Excerpt from the Front Page of The Parsons Daily Sun, Oct. 16, 1916:
Guilford Bolander, 28 years of age, switch engine fireman for the Katy, was killed last night about 6:40 o'clock in the north freight yards, opposite the yard house.
He was found under a string of box cars standing on the caboose track, by a Mexican, who notified the men at the yard office. The body was taken to the Ellis and Martin morgue.
Bolander was called for at 7 o'clock and left his home at 2515 Oak Avenue about 6:30 o'clock for the roundhouse. And that was the last seen of him until the Mexican discovered his dead body under the cars.
No one saw the accident which resulted in the man's death. But it is supposed he was climbing over the cars, which had an engine on one end and a sudden jolt of the string caused him to loose his footing and he fell beneath the train. The cars passed over his abdomen and across his chest. Death no doubt being instantaneous.
A coroner's inquest is being held this afternoon in Justice Well's court.
Guilford Bolander was born on a farm one and a half miles north of Dennis, Kansas, and came to Parsons about six years ago, to work for the Katy.
He is survived by a widow and three children; his parents; four brothers; and three sisters.
He was member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Fireman.
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Excerpt from the Front Page of The Parsons Daily Sun, Oct. 16, 1916:
Guilford Bolander, 28 years of age, switch engine fireman for the Katy, was killed last night about 6:40 o'clock in the north freight yards, opposite the yard house.
He was found under a string of box cars standing on the caboose track, by a Mexican, who notified the men at the yard office. The body was taken to the Ellis and Martin morgue.
Bolander was called for at 7 o'clock and left his home at 2515 Oak Avenue about 6:30 o'clock for the roundhouse. And that was the last seen of him until the Mexican discovered his dead body under the cars.
No one saw the accident which resulted in the man's death. But it is supposed he was climbing over the cars, which had an engine on one end and a sudden jolt of the string caused him to loose his footing and he fell beneath the train. The cars passed over his abdomen and across his chest. Death no doubt being instantaneous.
A coroner's inquest is being held this afternoon in Justice Well's court.
Guilford Bolander was born on a farm one and a half miles north of Dennis, Kansas, and came to Parsons about six years ago, to work for the Katy.
He is survived by a widow and three children; his parents; four brothers; and three sisters.
He was member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Fireman.
Excerpt from the Front Page of The Parsons Daily Sun, Oct. 16, 1916:
Guilford Bolander, 28 years of age, switch engine fireman for the Katy, was killed last night about 6:40 o'clock in the north freight yards, opposite the yard house.
He was found under a string of box cars standing on the caboose track, by a Mexican, who notified the men at the yard office. The body was taken to the Ellis and Martin morgue.
Bolander was called for at 7 o'clock and left his home at 2515 Oak Avenue about 6:30 o'clock for the roundhouse. And that was the last seen of him until the Mexican discovered his dead body under the cars.
No one saw the accident which resulted in the man's death. But it is supposed he was climbing over the cars, which had an engine on one end and a sudden jolt of the string caused him to loose his footing and he fell beneath the train. The cars passed over his abdomen and across his chest. Death no doubt being instantaneous.
A coroner's inquest is being held this afternoon in Justice Well's court.
Guilford Bolander was born on a farm one and a half miles north of Dennis, Kansas, and came to Parsons about six years ago, to work for the Katy.
He is survived by a widow and three children; his parents; four brothers; and three sisters.
He was member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Fireman.
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