Union-Delaware County OhArchives Obituaries.....Scott, Frank October 28, 1895
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Union County Journal, October 31, 1895
Frank Scott, Colored, Receives Injuries in a Railroad Accident at Delaware 
Sunday Morning that Result Fatally

A terrible railroad accident happened in Delaware at 2 o’clock Sunday morning 
on the C. G. V. & T. Ry. That cost a young colored man of this city 
[Marysville] his life. Frank Scott, of this place, had been working at the 
barber trade in Richwood for some weeks past and that night went to Marion and 
boarded a southbound freight on said road for the purpose of coming home.  He 
climbed into a box car containing a lot of roofing slate. All went well until 
the train neared Delaware where it separated. As the forward part stopped at 
the station, just north of which is a high bridge and embankment, the following 
portion came on at a high rate of speed and colliding with the forward section 
caused six cars to jump the track and go down off the bridge and high 
embankment to the creek bottom some forty feet below. One of the cars that went 
down was the car of slate in which Frank was riding. The immense mass of slate 
fell upon the man completely burying him. Though he was crushed he was not 
unconscious when removed from the debris, probably within an hour or so of the 
accident.  He was taken to the police station and Police Surgeon Mange sent 
for, but as we are informed nothing was done for the injured man, not even his 
torn and blood-soaked clothing removed. It was discovered that his spine was 
injured at the 7th vertebra and in consequence he was completely paralyzed 
below that point. In the forenoon Undertaker Shea, accompanied by Police 
Surgeon Mange brought him to his home in this city.  Here his injuries were 
dressed by Drs. Henderson, but there was no hope of saving his life.  He 
lingered until Monday at 2:30 p. m. when he died. Funeral services were held 
yesterday at 2 p. m. and the body was buried in Oakdale. He was 27 years of 
age. 


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