WILLIAM F. BURGETT
Arizona Republican Newspaper
February 4, 1909

Prescott: While switching cars at Jerome Junction tonight about 
7:45 o'clock, William F. Burgett, a brakeman on the S.F.P.P.R., 
23 years of age, one of the best known young men in this city, 
was caught between a moving train and cars standing on the 
United Verde and Pacific narrow gauge, and  was thrown beneath 
the rolling wheels.  Both legs were ground to shreds. He died 
while being brought into Prescott.  An inquest will be held 
tomorrow.

Burgett, who was better known as "Dutch" Burgett, has been 
employed on the S.F.P & P for several years. Dutch was well 
known in Phoenix and well liked by all who knew him. He was 
best known in baseball circles both he and his brother having 
played with the crack Prescott teams in recent years, Dutch 
being a skillful pitcher and good any place in the game. He 
was one of the strong men of the old Diamond Jo team which 
played a memorable series with a late Phoenix aggregation. 
He was not married and it was stated last night that his father 
is now in Oklahoma.