Description
Horrible Accident and Death - - On Saturday night, as the freight train bound for Leavenworth was starting from the depot, on the levee, Jake Hurd, well known to many of our citizens, while in an intoxicated state, attempted to climb on, slipped and was carried under the wheels of the moving train.
Several wheels seem to have passed over him, crushing and mangling his body in a frightful manner. Both legs were badly broken, and his body literally torn to pieces. He was dragged at least 50 feet, and small particles of flesh and clothes were hanging on to the splintered ends of rails and cross des.
His body, as it was gathered up and laid upon a board, was the most shocking looking object we ever beheld. We have seen men crushed by bursting shells, or torn by splinters, but nothing so horrible as that mass of mangled remains. - Kansas City Advertiser.
(Researcher's note: Slave trader and kidnapper Jake Hurd was known to operate in Platte County, Missouri.)Date(s) of Creation
8/19/1868
