Newspapers: Luther W. Armstrong Killed at Ashland.  Jackson Co., Oregon

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ARMSTRONG, Luther W., Medford (Oregon) Daily Tribune, 4 Jun 1907, p. 2:
Killed at Ashland - Luther W. Armstrong, an employe of the Southern Pacific
company, while engaged in switching in the yards at Ashland between three
and four o'clock this morning, was run over by a freight car and received
injuries from which he died at 10 o'clock this morning. The left leg was badly
crushed below the knee and the left hip also injured. The right leg was crushed
at the ankle joint. It seems that while engaged in his duties as a switchman he
was kneeling on the bed of a moving flatcar to pull a coupling pin and was
thrown beneath the moving wheels, receiving the frightful injures stated.

The young man, who before entering the train service of the company was
caller at the depot here, leaves a wife and babe, and the terrible misfortune
which has befallen them is deeply deplored by numerous friends. - Tidings.