Clatsop-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Lindstrom, Victor October 19, 1904
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Morning Oregonian October 11,1904
Crushed Under Train
Deckhand Lies Beisde Track Near Flavel, and is Fatally Injured
Astoria,Or.,Oct 10-(Special)- Victor Lindstrom, a deckhand employed on the 
dredge Chinook, was struck and almost instantly killed last evening by a 
train, on the Astoria $ Columbia River Railroad near Fort Stevens. The train 
was backing from Fort Stevens to Warrenton, and when a short distance below 
Flavel, Frank Hudson the brakeman, who wa son the rear platform, saw a dark 
object on the edge of the track. He immediatly applied the emergency brake, 
but was unable to stop the train in timeto avoid a collision. An investigation 
showed that the object was the body of a man and that the skull has been 
fractured and the right hand and arm badly crushed. The man was still alive , 
and he was quickly taken to the hospital at Fort Stevens, but he died soon 
after reachnig there. Later, the manwas identified as Victor Lindstrom. the 
deceased was about 40 years of age , and leaves a widow and several children 
living in England. He also leaves a brother,John Lindstrom, who is employed on 
the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River. Coroner Ruhl has taken charge of 
the body, and will hold an inquest tomorrow afternoon.

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