Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas)  - February 11, 1886 - Page: 7

A Young Man Run Over and Killed by a Train.
A Darkey's Strike.

Special to the News

Palestine, Feb. 10 - A young man by the name of Ed Evans, whose mother lives at
Fairfield, was killed on the railroad track twelve miles west of here last
night.  From the engineer of the freight train which ran over the unfortunate 
young man, it is learned that he left Oakwoods on a preceding train, also a 
freight, and it being against the rules for passengers to ride on such trains 
he was put off at a tank four miles this side of Oakwoods.  It is supposed the 
deceased started from the tank to Palestine on the track and falling into a 
cattle guard, leaving his body partly exposed, the second train ran over him.

The body was not greatly mangled, but he died in a few minutes after the 
accident.  The deceased was a nephew of Capt. Gammage, of this place, and of W.
H. Gammage, of Oakwoods where the body was carried for interment.