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From: "Judy Mawhorter" <>
Subject: [CAAMADOR-L] Speer
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 20:00:56 -0700

Jackie in Jackson --

SPEER MEETS AWFUL DEATH - Skull Fractured and Neck Broken by Fall Between
Two Cars ----

The subject of the following dispatch is a brother of w.E. Speer of near
jackson, and formerly resided here. He leaves a wife, Lulu Speer and a
daughter, Mona Speer. The funeral took place Tuesday.

SACRAMENTO, September 1 -- While jumping from one car to another of a
moving freight train in the Southern Pacific yards at Fourteenth and B
streets Saturday night, Arthur Speer, a switchman, missed his footing and
dropped between two cars, being instantly killed.

The train was coming to a stop at the time of the fatality and the head of
the unfortunate switchman was pinched between the rail and the flange of
the car wheel, his skull being fractured and his neck broken.

When picked up by Engineer Baughman and the members of the train crew Speer
was dead.

Coroner Gormley has charge of the remains, and will hold an inquest.

Speer lived at Twenty-sixth and G streets, and had been married but a short
time.

(From Amador Dispatch, 09/03/1909)

Judy in Winnemucca, NV

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