The Silver State

DEATH OF JOHNNY OWENS.
What is known of the Accident and the Verdict of the Coroner's Jury.
The Battle Mountain Messenger has the following relative to the death of John E. Owens:
On Wednesday night, John E. Owens, a young man who had been employed on the Nevada Central Railway as telegraph operator and brakeman, fell from the circus train when near Ansonia Station, and was killed. He has not been in the employ of the company for some weeks, and was only going as far as Hallsvale for some things he had there. He was not missed from the train and nothing was known of the accident until his lifeless body was picked up by the section men two miles this side of Ansonia, on Thursday morning. The body was taken back to the station and sent to town by the down train. The body was found with the head toward the rail and very close to it. A cut extended across the eyes, showing that he struck on the rail in his fatal fall. After hearing the testimony of Wm. Owens, a brother of deceased, and that of the Conductor and Train Dispatcher, the Coroner's Jury found that deceased was 24 years of age, a native of Massachusetts, and that he came to his death by reason of wounds caused, or supposed to be caused, by falling from the train on the morning of August 19th, 1880.