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Journal and Courier
Lafayette, IN
Wednesday, January 14, 1920


                   Worker Meets Tragic Death is Railway Yards
                   
                   TAYLOR JACKMAN, Employe of Wabash, 
                     Mangled by Cars as He
                       Toils Cleaning Switch
                       
                   TAYLOR JACKMAN, 36 years old, met a tragic death
                 beneath the wheels of a Wabash railroad switch train
                 Wednesday morning at 9:05 o'clock in the local yards
                 at the foot of Richard street. JACKMAN was employed
                 by the company in the maintainance of way department
                 and was engaged in cleaning a switch point when the
                 train backed down on him. It was evident that he was
                 instantly killed, although his body was dragged ful-
                 ly two hundred feet.
                   C. M. KING, employed as a switchman on the train
                 that caused JACKMAN'S death, noticed blood along the
                 track and upon investigation discovered the lifeless
                 body under one of the cars of passenger train No. 54,
                 which the switch crew had been handling. JACKMAN wore
                 a cap the flaps of which were pulled down over his
                 ears and probably did not hear the train approach.
                 His body was badly mangled.
                   The switch train was in charge of Engineer W. F.
                 DAUTEL, Sr., and Conductor MARION TAYLOR, with C. M.
                 KING and EDWARD G. HANNAGAN as switchmen. JACKMAN
                 worked under AL MOORE, foreman of the maintainance of
                 way employes. The body was taken to the Bradshaw par-
                 lors by Officers E. C. SMITH, ZOOK and COLE.
                   Mr. JACKMAN was a native of Montgomery county and
                 was reared near Darlington. He was married there fif-
                 teen years ago to Miss PEARL CHAMBERS, who with three
                 children, MELBA, 14; LETHA, 11, and ROBERT, one year
                 old, survives. He also survived by the following bro-
                 thers and sisters: OLIVER, of Darlington; WILLIAM S.,
                 of Kokomo; Mrs. ABE KUNTZ and Mrs. CHARLES BALDWIN, of
                 Indianapolis; Mrs. MARTHA BINGHAM of Crawfordsville,
                 and Mrs. GEROGE ELLIS, of this city.
                 
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