Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
September 21, 1889

The Fatal Accident at Marengo

Mr. A. E. Miller returned last Monday evening from Ashland, Wi.,
where he had been the legal representative of the DSS&A at the in-
quest into the death of the man who was killed by passenger train
No. 4 on the night of September 8. The circumstances of the fatal
accident were narrated in the Mining Journal shortly after the oc-
currance.

At Marengo and other places in the vicinity, there was consider-
able feeling agains the trainmen of the DSS&A passenger train, the
people seeming to think that the engineer culpable. The evidence,
however, developed the fact that Mre Hood, the engineer, and his
fireman, as well as another gentleman who was on the engine, were
keeping a careful lookout, but a for was prevailing and as the man
was lying down, he could not readily be seen. Others claimed foul
play, claiming that companions had put him onto the track, having
previously killed him, or intended that the train should do the
horrible business. But there was no evidence of robbery and the
man was not known to have an enemys The coroner's jury found that
the man's death resulted from being accidently struck by the train,
and they attached no blame on any one.

The dead man was Charles Reardon. He lived at Marengo and leaves
a wife and several children. He had been drinking some liquor the
previous evening and probably lay down upon the track in a drunk-
en stupor.