Fatal Accident At Hoxieville
Cadillac, May 30. - A serious acci dent occurred on the Chittenden Lum ber company's railroad at Hoxieville by which one man lost hislife. Johr Carlin, a brakeman on the log train while attempting to set a defectiva brake. was thrown from the car upon the rails and the wheels passed over his body, alrnost cutting hiui in two. He was dragged several car lengths anc when taken froni under the wheels lived only a few minutes. The conductor of the train says that the brake was broken before the train etarted and that Carlin was warned in regard to it. The deceased was a single man about 30 years old, and his parents live at Big Rapids, where the body was taken.
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