Kinney - Edward - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Last night about 12 o’clock a horrible accident occurred near the Junction by which Edward Kinney, of Spencer, Ind., loses his life. Kinney was a brakeman on the Big Four road and last night was engaged in coupling cars as one of the freight engines switched around about a square west of the Junction house. Kinney was working between the tender of the engine and a box car. He had just attempted to make a coupling and failing had stepped down again to do it but the cars giving a sudden lurch, he was caught in some way between the bumpers and frightfully crushed. Both legs were mangled, crushed and torn out of all semblances to limbs and he was likewise injured internally, especially about the shoulders. He was carried at once to the Junction house and the road’s physician, Dr. Ensminger, summoned.

The injured man showed remarkable nerve and requested his conductor to take charge of his watch and effects and take them to his home in Spencer. After an examination, Dr. Ensminger placed him under the influence of opiates. This morning Drs. Cowan and Ensminger called and worked with him for some time, but it seemed plain from the first that the case was a hopeless one and that his death was only the question of a few hours. Kinney suffered intensely before the administration of opiates but after that he rested comparatively easy. Kinney is 24 years old and is unmarried. His conductor reports him as a steady man of good habits and well thought of in Spencer.

Mr. Kinney died shortly after twelve today. His remains were taken to Barnhill’s undertaking and prepared for interment. They will be taken to his home in Spencer where the funeral will occur.