Payette County ID Archives News.....Switchman Killed July 31, 1902
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Payette Independent July 31, 1902
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, July 31, 1902

Switchman Killed.

E. E. Earley, a switchman in the employ of the O. R. & N. Co., was run over by 
the cars in the Huntington yards at 8 o’clock last Friday evening, and received 
injuries from which he died the next morning.  Earley was at work near the 
freight depot and was engaged in cutting off cars, placing some on one track 
and some on another.  He was walking in front of the moving cars to arrange the 
coupling apparatus when his foot got caught in a frog, and before he could 
extricate himself four cars passed over him.  His right leg was cut off at the 
hip joint and the abdomen was laid open.  Dr. Spencer being out of town, Earley 
was taken to Baker City on a special train and placed in the hospital, where he 
died the next morning.  The accident took place within 100 feet of where C. M. 
Daly was killed in a similar manner sixteen months ago.  


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