Lincoln-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Dixon, Fred P. October 27, 1904
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Monring Oregonian October 28,1904
Albany,Or.,Oct.27-(Special)- Fred P.Dixon,an assistant car repaire of the 
Southern Pacific at this place, was run over by a freight car at about 1:30 
this afternoon and fatally injured. Dixon was between a steel coal car and a 
flatcar making an airbrake coupling, when a switch engine,backing tow 
cars,coupled witht eh coal car, and the impact of the cars knocked Dixon down 
and he was run over.
The wheels stopped directly over the injured man. Dixon's screams called the 
attention of the train crew to him and the car was taken off. It was found 
that the heavy steel car,weighning nearly 20 tons, had run over his right leg 
at the hip and ankle and his left leg at the knee.
Medical asssistance was secured and the injured man given every attention 
possible,but he died on the train while being taken to a Portland hospitsl.
Dixon was about 27 years of age. He was a Mason,Woodman, and phillipine 
veteran. He left a wife and one child. The body was taken in charge by 
Dunning,McEntee & Gillbaugh at Portland,to be prepared for shhipment to 
Sacremento,Cal

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