Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Monday, October 27, 1924

ROBT. HENDERSON DIES; CRUSHED UNDER A TRAIN

Right Leg Severed and Fatal Injuries Are Sustained.

Succumbing from loss of blood and physical shock, as a result of the accident that at daylight cost him the loss of his right leg, Robt. M. Henderson, aged 32 years, died at 4 o'clock Saturday at the St. Francis sanitarium.

Henderson was a switchman for the Missouri Pacific and was on the night trick at the local yards. Early Saturday morning, soon before daybreak, close to the local passenger station, he missed his hold and fell from a car, the caboose running over his right leg and crushing it close to the thigh. His left foot also was broken and otherwise mashed.

Aid was forthcoming quickly and he was removed by a Peters ambulance to the St. Francis sanitarium where the leg was amputated. He was conscious much of the time but the shock and loss of blood was so great he grew weaker until his death at 4 o'clock in the afternoon Saturday or about ten hours after the accident.

Henderson urged that his married sister from El Dorado be notified which was done, but she was not able to arrive in time.

Also the injured man's parents were notified at their home at Forest Hill, La., near Alexandria. They came up in an auto, arriving here in the afternoon, soon after the man had passed away.

Henderson had been employed for the last three years on this same job and was well liked and declared to be regarded particularly capable. He came here from his home near Alexandria originally and was not married. He lived at 1709 St. John street. He was a member of the local Masonic lodge and highly esteemed generally.

A married sister at El Dorado, Ark., a brother, H. S. Henderson, at Forest Hill, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Henderson, of Forest Hill, survive.

The body was sent on Sunday to Forest Hill for the funeral and interment.