Bob Styles Killed, Mangled Body Found Beside Short Line Tracks, Auburn NY Citizen 15 Jul 1912
BOB STYLES KILLED
Mangled Body Found Beside Short Line Tracks.
WAS WORKING NEAR OAKWOOD
And Remains Were Discovered Near Mapleton by Yardmaster John Graney.
John Graney, yardmaster at the Auburn Short Line, while making a trip over the line in a motor car this morning about 7:30, discovered the lifeless body of Robert Styles, a mason’s tender residing on Elizabeth street, this city, lying beside the track a mile north of Mapleton.
The body was badly mangled and had evidently been struck by one of the trains of the Short Line last night or early this morning.
Styles was working for a farmer near Oakwood and had spent Sunday in this city. he left Auburn in the evening on the train over the Short Line at about 6:30. he left the train at White’s intending, it is said, to make the rest of the journey to the farm where he was employed on foot.
Either the train which he had just left backed down on him or the northbound train in Auburn at about 8:50 struck him, killing him, it is supposed, instantly.
The body was brought to the city this morning and taken in charge by Undertaker Hennessy. Coroner Forman was notified and he began an investigation into the facts.
The evidence of William King, engineer, and E. Withered, conductor of the southbound train, was taken as was that of one or two witnesses who saw the deceased leave the train at White’s. The investigation is not yet completed.
The deceased leaves besides a widow, three children and three sisters. The arrangements for the funeral are not yet complete.
The Auburn NY Citizen, 15 Jul 1915, p. 6, col. 1