James M Mulvey
Kentucky Post, Monday, 24 June 1907, page 5
DEATH
Death came in awful form to Jim Mulvey about 55, at 9:40 am today at the head of Saratoga st. Newport. He stepped from one C&O track to allow a freight train to pass and did not see a switch engine coming in the opposite direction on the track on which he was standing. His head was severed from his body and his right arm and left leg were also cut off. Death was instantaneous.
Mulvey was a stone paver by trade and worked on the streets of Newport when many of them were paved. He had many friends. He was a friend of James Lynch, an employee of Dine's furniture house and lately had been making his home with Lynch on Ann st. No reason can be assigned for Mulvey being in the vicinity this morning when killed, although trainmen say they have seen him in that neighborhood often and recently the "flyer" barely missed him.
The switch engine that struck him this morning was eastbound, while the freight train from which he escaped was going west. Hi had several note books in his vest pocket and from these he was identified. The police and coroner were notified after which the body was removed to Betz's Morgue. Hub waters, foreman of the switching crew did not see Mulvey struck but was at his side a few moments after the accident.
A man named Sickner was on the westbound freight and he saw the yard engine bearing down. He yelled to him but the noise from the train drowned his voice. Mulvey was a brother of Mrs. Joseph Dowling of Ann st.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday, 20 June 1908, page 16
NEWPORT
Mary Dowling, as administrator of the estate of James M Mulvey,
filed suit yesterday against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, to recover
$1649.99 for the death of Mulvey, who was struck by a train and killed near the
head of Washington avenue, June 24, 1907.