Las Vegas Age, January 24, 2004, Clark County, Nevada  
Copyright © 2003 Gerry Perry <MissGerry@cox.net>

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LAS VEGAS AGE
10/20/1917

CUT TO PIECES UNDER THE WHEELS

    Frank MEILKE, a miner, who has been employed in the various camps of 
the county from time to time, was killed in the railroad yards in this 
city last Sunday morning, when he attempted to board a moving freight 
train, south bound.  The body was terribly mangled, the unfortunate 
man's head being cut off, both legs cut off and other portions of the 
body injured.
    Judge BREEZE held a coroner's inquest, with the following jury:  J. 
B. POLLACK, Roy GOODWIN, Ed. AHLF, Walter SEARE, C. A. RAU and Ewald 
PAPKE.  The jury returned a verdict of death by accident.
    The deceased had been drinking heavily about the saloons of Las 
Vegas for several days.  He left here on the Thursday evening before his 
death on number one, buying a ticket for Jean.  The next morning he was 
discovered on the bed of the dry lake near Roach, in a dazed condition, 
and suffering from cuts on the wrists, evidently inflicted by himself 
with suicidal intent.  The wounds were bound up by G. W. MORGAN, of 
Roach, who placed the man on a freight north bound. MEILKE evidently 
came directly through to Vegas again, the next known of him being when 
he was seen by conductor WHITMIRE to fall when attempting to board the 
freight.
    There was some suspicion that the man threw himself beneath the cars 
purposely.  At any rate his horrible death was another of those so 
common here, due directly to booze.
    The remains were buried in the City Cemetery at the expense of the 
county.