Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kinney, Frank 1880
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Ionia Sentinel, Thursday, March 11, 1880

Coroner Johnson yesterday caused the following jury of inquest to be impaneled 
to inquire into the death of Frank Kinney: J.L. Yates, E. Sprague, A.G. 
Benedict, Mark Shannon, E. Raby and J.C. Taylor.  Drs. Hammond, Thomas, Barnes 
and Long gave their testimony from a professional view of the case, and Daniel 
Lyon, yard master, Mr. Hughes, engineer, who were on the ground at the time of 
the accident and conveyed Mr. Kinney home, and Mrs. Col. McGill, who was 
present and assisted the doctors at the time of the operation, were examined as 
to their knowledge of the same.  While there will be a general opinion that 
there was no substantial cause for calling an inquest, it was perhaps due to 
the feeling of the friends and to the physicians that irresponsible gossip in 
relation to it should be at once thoroughly sifted.  The testimony showed 
conclusively that Mr. Kinney could not have survived had his foot not been 
amputated, the main artery being torn apart, and five of the seven dorsal bones 
fractured, some of them being splintered into small pieces.  It also showed 
that the treatment was skillful and proper, as was to be expected from the 
reputation of the attending surgeons.  The jury returned a verdict, of which 
the following is the essential part:

“That said Frank Kinney came to his death by injuries received on the track of 
the D., L, & N. R.R., in the city of Ionia, by being run over by a locomotive 
and cars of said road, on Saturday, the 6th day of March, 1880.  And we find 
that neither the R.R. Co. nor any of its employees were to blame for said 
accident.  We also find that he received all proper treatment and care by the 
physicians and surgeons called to attend him, and that his death was the result 
of the shock and hemorrhage caused by injuries received by said accident.”

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The funeral of the late Frank Kinney will take place this morning, at ten 
o’clock, from St. Peter’s (Catholic) Church.


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