Mr. John Haley, a brakeman on the C. B. & Q., fell or was accidentally thrown by a sudden jar from a freight train on Tuesday morning about 3 o'clock, while the train was coming this way down Grand River grade. He fell near the front of the train, it is supposed between the cars, and was run over by the remainder of the train and the passenger train which passed over the road shortly after. The conductor alighted from the freight and went back in search of the remains and found his body badly mangled.

The remains were brought to Afton in a heap and presented a sickening sight, very little of the head remaining, and one leg and arm entirely severed from the body. The body had the appearance of being dragged some distance and his clothes was torn in shreds, nothing remaining on him but his boots. There was nothing in the mangled, bruised and blood stained fragments that would enable anyone to recognize him. The victim's watch was found on the track and still running. His pocket book was found which had the appearance of being run over. Haley is said to have been a young man of about 28 years, and supposed to have relatives in Chicago. After the remains were brought here they were left in charge of Station Agent Murray Dunn, who had them washed and carefully placed in a casket and sent to Creston to await the advice of friends.