He was on his way West and intended to beat his way. A number of boys saw him seat himself between the cars when the train pulled out of town [ note: instead of using the automatic couplers of today, trains of this period were often attached using heavy oval steel rings with a heavy pin dropped through each end to connect the cars. Coupling and uncoupling the cars manually was a dangerous job ].

A short time later a couple of men who were unloading wood near the spur two miles from here heard someone calling for help and found the boy lying near the tracks. They put him on their rig and hurried to town and Dr. Bakke took charge of him.

The N.P. [ Northern Pacific? ] sent a special train over with Dr. Stowe of Rush City. The crushed leg was amputated and all efforts made to save the boy's life, but he died the following morning from loss of blood.

His father arrived a short time ago from La Crosse and purchased a farm out near Doctor's Lake. The boy was kind of wild and had run away from home before. The body was buried with simple services in the cemetery here.