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The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, June 10, 1900
pg. 4

Charlie Goss, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Goss, 218 east Hull street, died Thursday morning at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Goss have the heartfelt sympathy of a large circle of friends in their great bereavement.

The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, April 14, 1901
pg. 4

MET A HORRIBLE FATE
Flagman Dick Goss is Killed at the Main Street Crossing
R.F. Goss, the M.K.&T. flagman at the Main Street Crossing, was run over and killed Friday at 3:30 p.m. by switch engine No.31, in charge of Engineer Sales. No two persons ever see an accident alike and there are several versions now of just how it happened. Several eye-witnesses state that a party of ladies had left the depot platform to cross the tracks. A switch engine was moving near the crossing and Goss advanced to give them warning to stop. He was so intent in watching the ladies that he did not see a switch engine which was coming on the track on which he was standing. The engineer supposed, of course, that the flagman would step to one side as he had done a hundred times. But he did not move and was crushed and mangled to death, his body being literally cut into fine particles and strung along the rails for a distance of 25 yards. After the accident the remains were put into a sack and carried to the M.K.& T. freight depot.
The deceased has been here for a number of years employed at the freight department. When Jimmy Cater went to the hospital at Sedalia, Goss took his place.
He was a man about 40 years of age, and leaves a wife and four children to mourn his untimely fate.