San Francisco-Santa Cruz County CA Archives Obituaries.....Wolbern, Jacob December 18, 1880
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San Francisco Chronicle Dec 25 & 26, 1880
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
                     
An Unknown Man Dragged to Death by an Engine

Yard-engine No .2 of the Southern Pacific Railroad was running east on Channel
street a few minutes after 6 o'clock last evening.  When about forty feet east
of Potrero avenue a sudden jar was experienced.  The engine was stopped, and
lying upon the west rail was found the dead body of a man, whose right arm had
been cut off, his right leg crushed and his body about the loins and abdomen
terribly mangled.  About forty yards farther off from the place where the jar
was felt were found a set of false teeth, a piece of carpet, which the deceased
had evidently used as a cape to shield himself from the rain, a knife and pipe
and other trifles.  The supposition is that he was struck at this spot and being
caught in the guard rail was dragged the remainder of the distance.  Officer
Thomas Stanton and Yardmaster Gill notified the police of the accident, and the
remains were conveyed to the Morgue, where they now lie unidentified.  The
deceased had no teeth, and the false set undoubtedly were his.  In his pockets
were a number of the business cards of one Conrad Hildenbrand, a plumber on
Sixteenth street.  The deceased was about 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in
height, and had the right thumb amputated at the first joint.  When found the
remains were attired in a black diagonal sack-coat and vest of the same
material, dark pantaloons and overalls of gray stuff, rubber leggings and heavy
boots.  He is believed to have been a German, but it is positively known that he
is not Hildenbrand.

JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN

The man who was run over Friday evening about 6 o'clock,by yard-engine No. 2 of
the Southern Pacific Railroad and instantly killed has been identified as Jacob
Walher, a German, aged 49, who lived with his sister, Mrs. Meyers, at the corner
of Shotwell and Twentieth streets

Additional Comments:
Jacob Dietrich Wolbern/Wolburn, father of Anna (deWit),Ida(Rickles, Molitor,
Leibbrandt) and Emma(Wolfgram)

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