Lincoln-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Dixon, Fred P. October 27, 1904
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Sheron Faynor [email protected] March 31, 2008, 10:02 am
Monring Oregonian October 28,1904
Albany,Or.,Oct.27-(Special)- Fred P.Dixon,an assistant car repaire of the
Southern Pacific at this place, was run over by a freight car at about 1:30
this afternoon and fatally injured. Dixon was between a steel coal car and a
flatcar making an airbrake coupling, when a switch engine,backing tow
cars,coupled witht eh coal car, and the impact of the cars knocked Dixon down
and he was run over.
The wheels stopped directly over the injured man. Dixon's screams called the
attention of the train crew to him and the car was taken off. It was found
that the heavy steel car,weighning nearly 20 tons, had run over his right leg
at the hip and ankle and his left leg at the knee.
Medical asssistance was secured and the injured man given every attention
possible,but he died on the train while being taken to a Portland hospitsl.
Dixon was about 27 years of age. He was a Mason,Woodman, and phillipine
veteran. He left a wife and one child. The body was taken in charge by
Dunning,McEntee & Gillbaugh at Portland,to be prepared for shhipment to
Sacremento,Cal
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