A Sleeping Stranger on the Rails Near Mukilteo
An unidentified man lying across the track south of Mukilteo was struck and killed by a southbound freight train; the coroner headed for the scene.
Everett, July 16.—[Special.]—The southbound freight train on the Seattle & Montana road ran over an unknown man tonight about half a mile south of Mukilteo. He was lying across one of the rails, apparently asleep. The engine pushed over his body. Coroner J. C. Mitchell was notified, and has gone to the scene of the accident.
“He was lying across one of the rails, apparently asleep. The engine pushed over his body.”
The Seattle & Montana line became part of the Great Northern’s route along Puget Sound, where freight still runs close to Mukilteo’s waterfront. The item is a stark reminder of how anonymous and sudden death could be on the region’s rail corridors—and how little the paper could say about a man who died asleep on the track.
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