Tragic Industrial Death at Spokane Rail Yard

SPOKANE, Sept. 22.—A switchman in the employ of the Northern Pacific railway, named Lewis C. Doe, was run over by a train of freight cars at this morning and instantly killed. At that time the switchmen were engaged in clearing the yard of freight cars preparatory to the incoming of the passenger train from the East. Doe was engaged in making a coupling between two cars at the Stevens street crossing. In some unaccountable way his foot became wedged in between the side of the walk of the crossing and the track, and when the train moved up he was powerless to extricate himself from his perilous position. The next minute he was thrown forward between the cars and the wheels passed over his body longitudinally, lacerating him terribly. His remains were removed to the rooms of an undertaking company, and the coroner summoned a jury which this afternoon found a verdict of accidental death. Deceased came to this city a few weeks ago from Minneapolis. He was a Mason in good standing and belonged to Plymouth Lodge, No. 100, A. F. & A. M., of Minneapolis. He was about 30 years of age, and leaves a wife and one child who are now in Minneapolis.