Death Notice for Jack Harrah  - Murray County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Susan Gabel   sgabel1@juno.com
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On Wednesday afternoon about one o'clock, Jack Harrah, a young man about
twenty years of age, who was a brakeman on the gravel train, met with an 
accident at the rock crusher near Dougherty, which cost him his life.

In some manner he fell between two flat cars and one foot was caught under
a wheel, which drew his legs under the wheel, mangling the right leg up to 
the thigh and the left above the knee.  He was immediately loaded on the 
caboose and started for Oklahoma City, his home.  His father was conductor 
on the train and accompanied him, being almost crazed by the sad affair.  
Arriving here a fresh engine and crew was ready to take the badly mangled 
man to Oklahoma City, where he was conveyed to St. Anthony's Hospital and 
everything possible done to relieve his sufferings, which ended at twelve 
o'clock that night in death.

The run from the scene of the accident to this place - fifty-three miles - 
was made in the remarkably short time of fifty-one minutes, and only three 
minutes were taken up in making the change of engine and crew at this place.

Jack Harrah had for some time been one of the number of railroad men making 
their headquarters here, and was very popular among his associates, all of 
whom deeply feel the loss they have sustained in his untimely death.