Elko,
Nevada Train Accident
May 11, 1910
SWITCHMAN IS KILLED BY ENGINE
George Hine, Southern Pacific Employee, Is Run
Over and Results Prove Fatal
Elko, Nev., May 11. – GEORGE HINE, a Southern Pacific
switchman at Catlin, was run over by the switch
engine this morning and so badly injured that he
died a short time afterward. The particulars, as
we learned them from
Dr. Hood, are about as follows:
HINE had
loaded some timbers 8 or 10 feet long on the
tender of the engine to take to the ball
grounds. He took position on the tender behind
the timber. The timbers projected over the side
of the tender. As the engine backed up, one end
of the timbers struck a freight car and knocked
HINE off the tender. He fell on the track and
the engine passed over his right arm, right
thigh and left ankle, badly crushing them, and
otherwise injuring him.
An engine and caboose were immediately
dispatched to Elko for a physician. Dr. Hood
responded, but MR. HINE died shortly after the
doctor reached his bedside.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 12 May 1910
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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