The Price of a Five-Day Job

John W. Carey, a brakeman on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, was run over and killed by a freight train at Gilman yesterday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock. Freight train No. 19 was switching in the yard at Gilman station. Carey turned a switch to permit the train to back in on a side-track and take on a freight car. As the train backed slowly toward him, he attempted to jump on the brake beam of the first car, but slipped and was crushed beneath the wheels, derailing the car. The train was stopped as soon as possible and Carey's body taken up and placed upon a platform. Life was not extinct, but efforts to revive him were useless, and he died within ten minutes after the accident, without speaking or reviving in the least. J. W. Carey was about 33 years of age, married and a resident of Seattle. He had been a brakeman only five days, having been assigned to freight train No. 19 last Saturday. He was an old employee on the road, having been employed both by the Northwestern Express Company and later by the Northern Pacific. He lived while in Seattle at the S. L. S. & E. house on Front street, between Columbia and Madison, and was popular among the men on the road and his other associates. Carey leaves a wife, who is in the East, and a brother living near Anacortes.