Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Clyde L. Scott, 1910
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SCOTT, CLYDE L.
(25 Aug 1910, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
The Wichita Eagle gives the following version of the accident:
While attempting to board a southbound Rock Island passenger train,
yesterday morning, just as it was pulling out from the station, Clyde
Scott, of Sayre, Oklahoma, 16 years of age, lost his footing and fell
under the cars.  The rear wheels passed over his left leg and the large
toe to his right foot.  The left leg was severed just below the knee. 
With the exception of the dismembered toe, the right foot was uninjured. 
Scott was taken immediately to St. Francis hospital.
He suffered painfully from the shock and it is from this that his
attending physicians fear for his life, rather than from injuries
received.  At 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon he rallied from the effects
of the shock.  An operation was performed on the left leg, in which a
portion of the leg above the knee was amputated, that a good stump might
be performed for an artificial limb, should he survive.  Late in the
evening he recovered from the effect of the anesthetic.  The hospital
authorities, however, stated that the outcome of the accident was
uncertain.  He stood the effects of the operation as well as could be
expected and seemed to be resting easily at an early hour this morning."
A sad incident in connection with the injury of Clyde Scott was the fact
that his mother was on the train and saw him as he was picked up from the
rails.  She had not the slightest idea that it was her boy who was
injured.
Mrs. Scott looked out at a window in the coach and saw persons carry an
injured youth to a stretcher.  She saw his crushed legs and his torn
clothing, but did not see his face.  "How terrible," she said.  "I wonder
if the poor fellow can live."
The train pulled away in a few moments and she saw the stretcher and its
suffering burden at a distant point on the station platform waiting for an
ambulance.
"I do hope they will hurry," she said to a friend in the next seat.  "I
know the boy must be suffering terribly."  The mangled body was that of
her own son, but she did not know it.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott have been residents of this city but a comparatively
short time, Mr. Scott having formed a co-partnership with E. P. Gum about
one year ago, and moving his family to this city during the past winter. 
During their residence here they have made a host of friends whose
heartfelt sympathy goes out to them in their hour of bereavement.
(26 Aug 1910, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Last Thursday, as we were going to press, the news came in over the wires
that Clyde Scott, son of P. P. Scott of the firm of Scott & Gum, had
fallen under a moving train at Wichita, Kans., and been badly crushed. 
Later reports confirmed the accident and developed a most touching
incident in connection with it.
It seems that Clyde expected to meet his mother at Wichita was about to
get on the train to see if she was aboard.  This was about day break and
in getting on, in the half light, Clyde was caught by a baggage truck that
had been left standing beside the train and partly knocked off, but
managed to hang on for quite a distance before the train could be stopped
and was thrown under the moving wheels.
He was taken to a hospital at once and tho his mother was on the train and
saw the accident she did not know it was her own son till she reached
home.
Mr. Scott met his wife at the depot and together they returned to Wichita
in time to take care of the unfortunate boy and be with him in his last
moments.  He died on Sunday and his body was brought here for burial on
Tuesday evening when a large concourse of our citizens together with
Clyde's schoolmates gathered at the depot to offer help, sympathy and
condolence to the afflicted parents.
Burial services were had at the Methodist church, his old class mates
acting as pall bearers, Rev. J. E. McConnell officiating, and the remains
were interred in the Doxey cemetery with impressive and appropriate
services.
(26 Aug 1910, Sayre Citizen, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Clyde Scott, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Scott of this city, died at
St. Francis hospital in Wichita, Kansas, last Sunday night, August 21st
from injuries received in falling from a moving train.
Deceased and his mother were enroute home after a visit at Kansas City. 
Clyde left the train at Wichita to get lunch for his mother, and while
attempting to board the train after it had started, was struck by a truck
which had been left near the outer edge of the depot platform and fell
rolling partly under a car.  His left leg was cut off near the knee and
the great toe of his right foot crushed.  He was moved to the hospital and
a few hours afterward the mangled leg was amputated above the knee.  For 4
days he hovered between life and death, succumbing to the grim reaper in
the closing hours of the fourth day.  Deceased was 16 years, 10 months and
29 days old.
The body was shipped to this city for interment, arriving Tuesday
afternoon.  Funeral services occurred Wednesday from the M. E. church at 2
p.m., conducted by the pastor of the church, J. E. McConnell.
(26 Aug 1910, Friday, The Carter Express, Carter, Beckham Co, OK):
Clyde, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott, of the firm of Scott & Gum of
Sayre, got his leg cut off and was otherwise bruised by a train in
Wichita, Kas., last Friday.
He was returning to Sayre from a visit to Kansas City, and was to meet his
mother, who was also returning home from a visit with relatives in
Nebraska, at Wichita, Kansas, where the accident occurred.  It seems that
the boy was on one train looking for his mother on the other when a load
of trunks struck him, knocking him under the train his mother was on.  The
boy never saw his mother, but was taken to a hospital, and being conscious
told where his parents lived, the latter being telegraphed about the
matter Saturday evening.
Mrs. Scott, who knew about someone getting hurt, but had no idea it was
her boy, came on to Sayre, only to find a telegram apprising her of the
boy's serious condition.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott left immediately for Wichita, Kansas, and upon arriving
there found the boy dying.  They shipped his remains to Sayre, arriving
here Tuesday.  He was an intelligent, well bred, young man, and this sad
ending of his promising life is indeed a blow to his father and mother and
their Sayre friends.

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