Bryant Man Accidentally Killed By TrainBryant Man Accidentally Killed By TrainWillard H. Smith, a single man aged 38 years and employed as a trip rider for the Truax-Traer Coal Company at St. David, was instantly killed Thursday morning by the north bound St. Louis and Minneapolis passenger train due in Bryant at 3:17 o’clock. His body was terribly mangled, parts of the body being carried north on the railroad track for a distance of 150 feet.
The accident occurred on the railroad crossing just north of the Burlington station. It is claimed the engineer saw Smith standing on the track with his hands in the air but the train could not be stopped in time to prevent killing him. Some distance north of the crossing the train was stopped and the remains were picked up along the track and taken to Canton to the Willard Sebree undertaking rooms.
Mr. Smith had lived in Bryant all his life. The father, Jack Smith, died some 18 years ago. Smith had been living with his mother in the east part of Bryant and working in the strip coal field at St. David. He was a World War veteran.
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