Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Watson, Fred M. August 8, 1888
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Ionia Standard – Fri. Aug. 17, 1888

CLARKSVILLE – Correspondence of THE STANDARD.

On Friday night, August 8th, at about 10 o’clock, the west bound train from 
Detroit, on the Grand Rapids, Lansing & Detroit Railroad, ran on to Fred M. 
Watson, night watchman at what is known as the “sink hole” two miles east of 
Clarksville, instantly killing him. From the statement of the engineer, it 
appears Watson was lying on the road with his head on one rail, and the body 
across the track. He was not discovered until the locomotive was within thirty 
feet of the body – too late to stop the train in time to save his life, if 
living.

A coroner’s inquest was held by Justice Scoville, the jury finding that Watson 
came to his death by his own carelessness, in lying on the track of the road 
and falling asleep.

The body was carried a distance of over 130 feet from the place of the 
collision, and was mangled in a most horrible manner, the head crushed into an 
almost shapeless mass.

Watson has lived here but a short time and little is known of him in this 
community, previous to his coming. He was about 30 years of age, and it is 
supposed, came from Ohio, as his mother and a brother are living at Tallmadge 
in that state. 



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