William Ellis
 

Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 January 1889, page 5

CRUSHED TO DEATH

William Ellis, a colored man, met with an accident on the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge yesterday that resulted in his death. He is employed by Thomas Moreland, who owns a dairy back of Newport.

Ellis was bringing a load of grain from Newport and when on the bridge approach, he fell from the wagon and a front wheel passed over his body. He was picked up and put on a Newport street car and taken to Newport.

The engine house wagon was called and took him to the home of Mr. Moreland where he died a few minutes after. He was a man about sixty years of age and well known in Newport. Coroner Winston held an inquest and rendered a verdict of accidental death, in accordance with the above facts.

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