Umatilla-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Swauger, Seymour October 22, 1904
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Morning Oregonian October 23,1904
Body Was Horribly Mangled
Umatilla Rancher Cut To Pieces Under O.R.&N Train
Pendleton,Or.,Oct.22- (Special)- Seymour Swauger met a horrible deat this 
morning near North Fork,29 miles east of Pendleton,on the O.R.& N by being run 
over by an East bound passenger train.The remains were found by a freight crew 
several hours later. A leg and an arm were completely severed and the body 
decapitated. The head was found 100 yards from the body.
The accident is a mystery. Swauger had been in the city last night,leaving for 
home at North Fork on an early morning train. He was said to have been in an 
intoxicated condition. it is believed he attempted to get off the train before 
reaching the station and fell under the wheels. Cornoer T.M. Henderson held an 
inquest late this afternoon and brought the remains to the city late tonight.
Swauger was formerly employed on the O.R.&N. but in recent years has been 
engaged in farming and stockrising. He left a wife and five children

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