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FRED SUTTON KILLED BY LOADED ORE CAR
Fred Sutton, who had made his home
in Flat River for the past two years and had been employed in the crusher room at No. 3
Mill, Federal Division of St. Joseph Lead Company, was killed instantly at 11:30 o'clock
Thursday night of last week when he was hit by a loaded ore car on the railway tracks near
the mill. There was no eye witness to the accident and its exact nature is not
known.
Sutton, who was working on night shift,
had left the crusher room to eat his midnight lunch. He had taken his lunch basket
in his hand and, as was his habit, had left the crusher room and had started to a building
nearby where he ate. In order to reach the building, it was necessary for him to
cross the tracks, over which ore is carried to the crusher room. A crew of men who
work on the railway yards at that point found the body under the ore car a few minutes
after Sutton had left the crusher room.
The body was removed to the People's
undertaking establishment in Flat River, where Coroner C. J. Hill of Bismarck, conducted
an inquest Friday morning at 8:30 o'clock. The body was prepared for burial, after
which it was taken to the family residence in Taylortown.
The body was taken Saturday morning to
the rural community in Southern Iron County, known locally as Crane Pond, where the Sutton
family had lived prior to the coming to the Lead Belt, where it was buried. The
deceased man is survived by a wife and two children.
The LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri,
August 29, 1924.
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