The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 19, 1936, page 1

LOSES LEGS, IN ACCIDENT AT LYLE; DIES IN HOSPITAL

     Sam Mines, 39, negro transient, had both legs cut off last Wednesday evening when he jumped or fell from a traveling freight train at Lyle, Wash. In spite of his injury, he managed to crawl from the tracks to the depot, where the station agent summoned medical aid.
     Dr. W.H. Warner, of White Salmon, rushed the injured man to the Hood River hospital, where an emergency operation was performed in an attempt to save his life. Blood poisoning took its toll, however, and he died early the following morning.
     The remains were brought back to White Salmon for burial as a county charge.
     The negro was able to toll the authorities but very little about himself, giving his name and age, and his address as Hannibal, Missouri.
     A telegram sent by sheriff C. B. House to the police at Hannibal, elicited the reply that Mines was unknown there. Further inquiries are being made in the nature of fingerprints submitted to the federal bureau at Washington, D.C., to the Salem State Police and to Washington and Oregon penitentiaries in an attempt to identify the man, and locate possible relatives.

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