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Killed By The Cars

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
October
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

John Sweet, an Ann Artior boy, who was brakeman on the Michigan Central met his death Tuesday afternoon by a sad accident. He was coupling cars at the time . The exact particulars of his death are not yet known to lus friends. One report has it that he caught his foot in a frog and was unable to extricate ït, the bumpers of the cars crushing kim, Another report is tha1 the cars caught him by a platform and rolled him along the side of it, crush. ing nim between the sides of the car and platform. He died before h could be taken home. He was a son of Spencer Sweet and was twenty-four years of age. He leaves a wlfe and one child.