Las Vegas Age, January 4, 2004, Clark County, Nevada  
Copyright © 2003 Gerry Perry <MissGerry@cox.net>

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LAS VEGAS AGE
7/15/1916

SECTION HAND KILLED

      Second 82 struck a band car near Leith a few days ago, inflicting 
injuries upon a section hand named MASSI from which he died Thursday in 
this city.  The body was buried Friday morning, but Coroner HARKINS has 
ordered it disinterred today and will hold an inquest to try to fix the
responsibility for the death, this evening.

LAS VEGAS AGE
7/22/1916

INQUEST ON MASSI

  Last Saturday evening the exhumed body of Barth MASSI was viewed by a 
coroner's jury composed of J. M. ULLOM, T. L. KINNEAR, H. L. ADAMS, L. 
MARCO, A. C. FRENCH and R. E. LAKE. A verdict was returned to the 
effect that deceased came to his death on July 13 from the effects of 
injuries caused by his jumping from a handcar on July 10, to avoid being 
struck by the second section of train 82. It seems  that the men 
working near Lieth, on the track, had started for the section house on 
their car when the train over took them. All jumped before the 
collission {sic} and none received any serious injuries except MASSI, 
who suffered a fracture of the skull. The train did not hit the handcar 
with sufficient force to derail it.