A Ghastly Fate

A Ghastly Fate.

An Unknown Roasted to Death in a Car in Which He Was Stealing a Ride.

Howell, Aug. 10.--An unknown man met a horrible death at Plymouth Junction, the joint station on the Flint & Pere Marquette and Detroit, Lansing & Northern, about 9 o'clock Wednesday night. At that time a car of merchandise standing on the siding was discovered to be on fire. When help arrived the men heard frantic calls for help from within the box car, but by the time the doors were burst open the inside was one mass of seething flames. It is believed the victim was some tramp who had secreted himself to steal a ride and went to sleep with lighted pipe, which set fire to his clothes or some inflammable material. Everything but the iron was consumed.