THE LEBANON ENTERPRISE, Friday, July 2, 1948. TWO DIE WHEN HIT BY TRAIN. Mack Downs of St. Francis, James Swan, Colored, Accident Victims. BOTH KILLED INSTANTLY.
Two Marion Countians, Mack Downs, 30-year-old resident of St. Francis, and James Swan, 37-year-old colored man of this city, were killed instantly on successive nights the past week when they were struck by the same southbound L & N freight train, No. 59. both suffered fractured skulls and were otherwise crushed and bruised.
Mr. Downs met death when he apparently fell under the moving train in front of the St. Francis depot at 12:40 o'clock Saturday morning as he was enroute to his home in the nieghborhood. Swan was killed that evening about 11:30 o'clock less than 100 feet north of the Harrison Street crossing here. He presonably went to sleep on the track.
Enroute Home From Party.
According to report, Mr. Downs had gone to a party at the residence of Paul Miles and was walking home alone at the time of his fatal accident. Friends said they were unable to explain how he could have fallen under the train. The locomotive was stopped promptly and Leonard Miles of St. Francis, a member of the crew, identified the dead man, whose body was badly mutilated. Miles also notified the Downs family.
Employed by the Schneider Construction Company, Mr. Downs had been working on improvement projects at the Loretto Academy. He previously had been connected with the Burks Spring Distillery and the Blair Distilling Company. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Downs, with whom he made his home, he was born in this county on August 7, 1917 and spent virtually all of his life in the St. Francis community. He was not married.
Surviving him, besides his father and mother are four brothers and two sisters. They are Leon and Bobby Downs of California, Mrs. Mary Jo Edelen of Louisville and Mrs. Margaret Robey, Lawrence and Hayden Downs of St. Francis. The body was taken to the Mattingly Funeral Home and later removed to the dwelling of his brother, Lawrence Downs, where it remained until the funeral services, which were conducted Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Francis of Assisi Church by the Rev. J. J. Fitzgibbon. Burial took place in the church cemetery.
Two Marion Countians, Mack Downs, 30-year-old resident of St. Francis, and James Swan, 37-year-old colored man of this city, were killed instantly on successive nights the past week when they were struck by the same southbound L & N freight train, No. 59. both suffered fractured skulls and were otherwise crushed and bruised.
Mr. Downs met death when he apparently fell under the moving train in front of the St. Francis depot at 12:40 o'clock Saturday morning as he was enroute to his home in the nieghborhood. Swan was killed that evening about 11:30 o'clock less than 100 feet north of the Harrison Street crossing here. He presonably went to sleep on the track.
Enroute Home From Party.
According to report, Mr. Downs had gone to a party at the residence of Paul Miles and was walking home alone at the time of his fatal accident. Friends said they were unable to explain how he could have fallen under the train. The locomotive was stopped promptly and Leonard Miles of St. Francis, a member of the crew, identified the dead man, whose body was badly mutilated. Miles also notified the Downs family.
Employed by the Schneider Construction Company, Mr. Downs had been working on improvement projects at the Loretto Academy. He previously had been connected with the Burks Spring Distillery and the Blair Distilling Company. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Downs, with whom he made his home, he was born in this county on August 7, 1917 and spent virtually all of his life in the St. Francis community. He was not married.
Surviving him, besides his father and mother are four brothers and two sisters. They are Leon and Bobby Downs of California, Mrs. Mary Jo Edelen of Louisville and Mrs. Margaret Robey, Lawrence and Hayden Downs of St. Francis. The body was taken to the Mattingly Funeral Home and later removed to the dwelling of his brother, Lawrence Downs, where it remained until the funeral services, which were conducted Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Francis of Assisi Church by the Rev. J. J. Fitzgibbon. Burial took place in the church cemetery.
THE LEBANON ENTERPRISE, Friday, July 2, 1948. TWO DIE WHEN HIT BY TRAIN. Mack Downs of St. Francis, James Swan, Colored, Accident Victims. BOTH KILLED INSTANTLY.
Two Marion Countians, Mack Downs, 30-year-old resident of St. Francis, and James Swan, 37-year-old colored man of this city, were killed instantly on successive nights the past week when they were struck by the same southbound L & N freight train, No. 59. both suffered fractured skulls and were otherwise crushed and bruised.
Mr. Downs met death when he apparently fell under the moving train in front of the St. Francis depot at 12:40 o'clock Saturday morning as he was enroute to his home in the nieghborhood. Swan was killed that evening about 11:30 o'clock less than 100 feet north of the Harrison Street crossing here. He presonably went to sleep on the track.
Enroute Home From Party.
According to report, Mr. Downs had gone to a party at the residence of Paul Miles and was walking home alone at the time of his fatal accident. Friends said they were unable to explain how he could have fallen under the train. The locomotive was stopped promptly and Leonard Miles of St. Francis, a member of the crew, identified the dead man, whose body was badly mutilated. Miles also notified the Downs family.
Employed by the Schneider Construction Company, Mr. Downs had been working on improvement projects at the Loretto Academy. He previously had been connected with the Burks Spring Distillery and the Blair Distilling Company. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Downs, with whom he made his home, he was born in this county on August 7, 1917 and spent virtually all of his life in the St. Francis community. He was not married.
Surviving him, besides his father and mother are four brothers and two sisters. They are Leon and Bobby Downs of California, Mrs. Mary Jo Edelen of Louisville and Mrs. Margaret Robey, Lawrence and Hayden Downs of St. Francis. The body was taken to the Mattingly Funeral Home and later removed to the dwelling of his brother, Lawrence Downs, where it remained until the funeral services, which were conducted Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Francis of Assisi Church by the Rev. J. J. Fitzgibbon. Burial took place in the church cemetery.
Two Marion Countians, Mack Downs, 30-year-old resident of St. Francis, and James Swan, 37-year-old colored man of this city, were killed instantly on successive nights the past week when they were struck by the same southbound L & N freight train, No. 59. both suffered fractured skulls and were otherwise crushed and bruised.
Mr. Downs met death when he apparently fell under the moving train in front of the St. Francis depot at 12:40 o'clock Saturday morning as he was enroute to his home in the nieghborhood. Swan was killed that evening about 11:30 o'clock less than 100 feet north of the Harrison Street crossing here. He presonably went to sleep on the track.
Enroute Home From Party.
According to report, Mr. Downs had gone to a party at the residence of Paul Miles and was walking home alone at the time of his fatal accident. Friends said they were unable to explain how he could have fallen under the train. The locomotive was stopped promptly and Leonard Miles of St. Francis, a member of the crew, identified the dead man, whose body was badly mutilated. Miles also notified the Downs family.
Employed by the Schneider Construction Company, Mr. Downs had been working on improvement projects at the Loretto Academy. He previously had been connected with the Burks Spring Distillery and the Blair Distilling Company. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Downs, with whom he made his home, he was born in this county on August 7, 1917 and spent virtually all of his life in the St. Francis community. He was not married.
Surviving him, besides his father and mother are four brothers and two sisters. They are Leon and Bobby Downs of California, Mrs. Mary Jo Edelen of Louisville and Mrs. Margaret Robey, Lawrence and Hayden Downs of St. Francis. The body was taken to the Mattingly Funeral Home and later removed to the dwelling of his brother, Lawrence Downs, where it remained until the funeral services, which were conducted Monday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Francis of Assisi Church by the Rev. J. J. Fitzgibbon. Burial took place in the church cemetery.
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