Ft. Worth Daily Gazette
(Ft. Worth, Tex.)
Tuesday, February 1, 1887

UNKNOWN MAN KILLED
A Tramp Horribly Mangled at Pottsboro

Special to the Gazette.
Pottsboro, Tex., Jan. 31 - Last evening about 6 p.m. as the second section of freight 155 was passing through this place a tramp attempted to board the train, but by some means he fell under the wheels and was horribly mangled, and killed instantly.  He was found a few minutes after the body was taken in charge by D.W. Odell, Justice of the  Peace, who had the remains taken to his office, and summoned a jury of inquest, who rendered the following verdict:
"That the unknown deceased came to his death by being run over by section 155 freight, south bound on the Missouri Pacific Railroad."
The body was cut nearly in two, the entrails torn out and the liver was found some distance from the body.  One arm was nearly torn off at the shoulder, one leg and foot nearly cut off, and a large hold cut in the head.  He had been in the town all day, begging something to eat.
He had on jeans pants and jacket, blue overalls, black sack coat, black hat, red hair and appeared about 20 years of age.  There was nothing found on the body to identify him, except a railroad map, and written on that was "Wyandotte Red, the Bum from Kansas," also part of a letter that he had received from someone signed "Dick."  The letter stated, among other things, that Chas. Wait had gone back to the army, as he was too lazy to work, and that Beva Kay and Lou Acres had joined the Salvation Army, want of business the cause.  A  switch-key of some railroad was found on him.
The body was interred in the Georgetown cemetery, at the expense of the county.