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Gustave J. Vogel Killed

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
February
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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A frightful accident, resuking in death, occurred Montiay forenoon near the Michigan Central depot. Guatave Vogel, a section hand, was struck by the Grand Rapids express train. It occurred at the curve. Vogel stepped on the main track to get out of the way of a switch engine which was making a good deal of noise on a side track. The engine of the express train whistled before turning the curve, but Vogel probably did not hear it because of the noise near him. The express train was upon him almost as soon as he stepped upon the track. The engine shneked its alarm, and afellow-workmen, 30 feet anead, also on the main track, had barely time to escape a similar fate. Vogel was carried tenderly into the baggage room, where Drs. Hendricks and Smitb, and a crowd of medical students, eoon gathered. The right arm was badly smashed, and the doctors took it off. The pelvic bone was found fractured. The skull was broken on the left side, and there were severe bruises about the right eye. It all presented a most ghastly sight as the doctors worked over the mangled man who was stretched on a hastily improvised couoh of planks and trunks. Vogel was taken to the University hospital, where he died at H p. m. Monday. He leaves a wife and three children. One child is not yet three weeks old. Mr. Vogel has worked for the road more than four years, is 33 years old, and has a good reputation for sobriety and industry. He had made one payment of $150 on a house for which he contracted to pay $050. Yesterday Coroner Martin Clark held an inquest, callinjf Moses Seabolt, Arthur Hagen, I. H. Simonds, O. O. Chesebro, A. J. Kelley, and Eoswell Waterman as jurors. Geo. L. Nadolleck, a Detroit attorney, appeared for the Michigan Central, and J. F. Lawrence for the peoplé. Rudolph Graf, a brother-in-law of the deceased. gave testimony, and then the railroad men, who saw the accident, were questioned, including Frank Foster, of Ypsilanti, and Richard Kasube, of Ann Arbor. Dr. Gundlach, who made the post mortem examination, was algo on the stand. The jury found that there was no blame to be attached to any one.

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Ann Arbor Register