AGED MAN IS KILLED BY TRAIN
ASHLAND PIONEER CITIZEN IS STRUCK BY C & A ENGINE
Ashland, Ill, October 12-Enoch James, 86 Years old, Was Walking Along Track and Slight Deafness Prevented Him From Hearing Approaching Train. While walking along the right of way of the Chicago & Alton railroad tracks, a quarter of a mile from the depot and like distance from his home, and within ten feet of where he would have left the track, Enoch S. James, aged 86 years, was struck and fatally injured by a Chicago & Alton passenger train in this place at noon today, dying from the effects in fifty minutes. The aged man was hale and hearty, but was slightly deaf. It is thought he did not hear the blowing of the whistle or ringing of the bell of the engine. He always walked when he desired to go any place, this counting for his unusually robust condition at such an advanced aged.
One of the rods on the front of the engine hit him and he was knocked twenty feet into the ditch. He was picked up and taken to his home, where death followed fifty minutes after the accident occurred.
For the past six or seven years he has made his home in this city, coming here from a farm near Pleasant Plains, justice of the peace of Cartwright township; and two daughters, Miss Jennie S James, a returned missionary from China and Mrs Dr Thompson of Boston, Mass.
Illinois State Register
Tuesday, Oct 13, 1908 pg 1
AGED MAN IS KILLED BY TRAIN
ASHLAND PIONEER CITIZEN IS STRUCK BY C & A ENGINE
Ashland, Ill, October 12-Enoch James, 86 Years old, Was Walking Along Track and Slight Deafness Prevented Him From Hearing Approaching Train. While walking along the right of way of the Chicago & Alton railroad tracks, a quarter of a mile from the depot and like distance from his home, and within ten feet of where he would have left the track, Enoch S. James, aged 86 years, was struck and fatally injured by a Chicago & Alton passenger train in this place at noon today, dying from the effects in fifty minutes. The aged man was hale and hearty, but was slightly deaf. It is thought he did not hear the blowing of the whistle or ringing of the bell of the engine. He always walked when he desired to go any place, this counting for his unusually robust condition at such an advanced aged.
One of the rods on the front of the engine hit him and he was knocked twenty feet into the ditch. He was picked up and taken to his home, where death followed fifty minutes after the accident occurred.
For the past six or seven years he has made his home in this city, coming here from a farm near Pleasant Plains, justice of the peace of Cartwright township; and two daughters, Miss Jennie S James, a returned missionary from China and Mrs Dr Thompson of Boston, Mass.
Illinois State Register
Tuesday, Oct 13, 1908 pg 1
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