Missoula County MT Archives Obituaries.....Spencer, Howard October 7, 1904
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Morning Oregonian October 8,1904
KILLED IN FREIGHT WRECK
Howard Spencer Was Riding In Car That Was Smashed
Missoula,Mont.Oct.7-Howard Spencer,evidently a workingman, wa skilled in the 
lcal railwy yards here tonight as the result of a freight train accident. 
Spencer had entered one of the empty cars of a freight train about to depart 
for Spokane. As a helper engine was being cut into the train for the grade 
west, the head engine backed the forward half of the train into the helper 
engine, completely demolishing the end car, in which Specer was riding. 
Spencer was badly cut and mangled, dying instantly. Little other damage was 
caused by the wreck.
Spencer had a poll tax receipt on his person, issued in Humboldt County, 
Nevada, on September 1; also an employment agency's recepit, issued in BUtte.

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