Beckham County, OK - Deaths: A. M. Brady, 1911
26 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BRADY, A. M.
(16 Feb 1911, Thursday, Elk City Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Last Saturday morning the section crew on the Hammon extension of the
Wichita Falls and North Western, were enroute to their work from this city
and when about four miles north of the city, they met a south bound
freight in a heavy fog and it was so near they barely had time to leave
the hand car when the train colided (sic) with it and the hand car was
thrown from the tract (sic) by the engine and killed A. M. Brady at once
and seriously injured Will Wright, both of this city.  The section crew
were those of section foreman Martin, whose section is from Carpenter, for
lack of section house at Carpenter, they still lived at Elk City.  There
were eight men and the foreman on the car, but none except Wright and
Brady were hurt.
Mr. Brady's remains were entered (sic) at the Elk City cemetery and he
leaves a wife and two children to mourn his untimely end.  Mr. Wright was
taken to Wichita Falls to the railroad hospital for care and treatment. 
We understand he also has a wife and three children.
The affair was a sad one and leaves a home very unexpectedly without
fatherly and a husband's protection, and the other in dreadful suspense
awaiting the outcome of the injuries sustained.  It was, however, an
unavoidable accident and no blame can especially be laid to any one except
innocent thoughtlessness of the impending danger.  The real cause for the
accident was the dense fog that obscured the view of the oncoming train.
(17 Feb 1911, The Carter Express, Carter, Beckham Co, OK):
Two Men Killed.
Two section hands were killed four miles North of Elk City last Saturday
being run down by a train.  They were on a hand car and tried to get the
car off the track before the train struck it, but remained too long with
it.  The car was knocked off and struck both of the men.  Mr. Grady, (sic)
one of the men, had his back and neck broken, dying instantly, his funeral
services being held at Elk City Sunday afternoon.
Bill Wright, the other, who has a wife and three children in Elk City, got
his side and hip badly bruised.  He was carried to Wichita Falls to the
hospital where he will probably die.
(23 Feb 1911, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
Man Killed Near Elk.
A. M. Brady, a section hand working on the W. F. & N. W. railroad was
instantly killed and William Wright, another laborer, was perhaps fatally
injured last Saturday, Feb. 11, while trying to remove a hand car off the
track, four miles north of Elk City.  Both parties live in Elk City.