Las Vegas Age, November 8, 2003, Clark County, Nevada  
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LAS VEGAS AGE
10/16/1909

TERRIBLE DEATH

WM. LILLY, MANGLED IN MACHINERY, LIVES OVER AN HOUR

    Thursday morning about 7:30 William LILLY, foreman of the concrete 
work at the Vegas shops, was caught by the rapidly revolving machinery 
of a concrete mixer on the site of the railroad cottages, receiving 
injuries from which he died at 9 o'clock.  In some way his sleeve was 
caught, drawing his left arm into the machine with such force that it 
was torn from his body and remained hanging in the cogs after the 
machine was stopped.  The unfortunate man was whirled about with 
terrific force, nearly all the ribs on the left side being torn loose 
and his back broken.
    Immediately after the accident he was removed to the company 
hospital where Dr. HEWETSON did what little was possible to ease his 
dying moments.
    A coroner's jury was impanelled Friday morning by Judge LILLIS. 
After viewing the body and visiting the scene of the accident to inspect 
the machinery a verdict of accidental death was returned, exonerating 
both the company and fellow employees of deceased from negligence.
    Mr. LILLY  has been in the employ of the Salt Lake road since the 
work of building the road was begun, having been in charge of the bridge 
building and concrete work on the main line.  When the work  was begun 
in Vegas, he was transferred to this point as foreman of concrete work.
    The deceased stands high in the estimation of his employers and his 
fellow workmen and, it is said, lost his life through his close 
attention to every detail of his work.  He was a man of some means, 
leaving real estate in Los Angeles and Redondo Beach, Cal. besides 
building and loan stock, etc.  His only surviving relative, so far as 
known here, is a brother Chas. G. LILLY, residing at McGaheysville, 
Virginia.   =20