Obituary: Portage County, Wisconsin: Andrew NYSTROM 

Stevens Point Daily Journal 
Feb. 9, 1899 

Brakeman killed 

Andrew Nystrom, who has for a short time been braking on the Greenwood branch of the 
Central, was instantly killed at Marshfield at about 10 o'clock this forenoon. T

he story of the accident as it comes to the Journal is that Nystrom was engaged in 
switching and that the engine was backing toward him; that when the engine reached 
him he attempted to board it but slipped and went under the wheels, his body being 
literally cut to pieces. 

Nystrom was about 26 years of age and came here from Alexandria, Minn., where his 
mother resides, about three months ago. While here he boarded at the Central house 
on the south side. He left here about six days ago to work on the Greenwood branch. 

The news of his unexpected death cast a gloom of sadness among the guests at the 
Central house, by all of whom the young man was held in high esteem.



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