Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Worden, Frank 1881
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Ionia Standard, 27 Oct 1881

An Ionia Man Cut to Pieces.

From the Detroit Free Press.

A horribly fatal railroad accident occurred at 7:45 o’clock last night in the 
Michigan Central railroads yards, between Fourth and Eleventh streets.  Engine 
No. 90 was backing up from the depot, and suddenly the engineer, James Martin, 
felt a heavy jar, and, at first, thought that there was an obstruction on the 
track.  He stopped the locomotive to ascertain the cause, and looking back, saw 
an object lying inside the rails on the track.  He jumped from the engine and 
discovered that he had run over a man.  A close inspection revealed a horrible 
sight.  The man was cut literally to pieces, and one of his legs was missing.  
The limb was afterwards found twenty feet from the scene of the accident.  The 
fragments of the body were picked up by a number of employes and placed on a 
stretcher, and a messenger was sent to telephone for Coroner Richards.

The body was that of a young man and at first could not be identified.  In 
searching his pockets papers were found showing him to be connected with the 
Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railway.  The remains were subsequently identified 
by Freight Agent Keavy as those of Frank Worden, a brakeman on that road.  Mr. 
Keavy said that he last saw Worden alive about 5 p.m., when he came into his 
office and was slightly under the influence of liquor then.  Worden was about 
24 or 25 years of age and lived in Ionia.  He was to have gone out at 4 o’clock 
this morning.  The circumstances of his death show that he was walking on the 
track at the time if its occurrence.  There were lights on both the front and 
rear parts of the engine, which was moving at the usual yard speed at the time, 
and with a ringing bell.

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Frank Worden, whose tragic death at Detroit is recorded elsewhere, was buried 
in this city on Tuesday.  He leaves a wife and one child and a widowed mother.


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