Terre Haute (IN) Weekly Express, February 14, 1872.
KILLED BY CARS
Louisville, Ky., February 11-When the passenger train on the J. M. and I.
Road arrived at the depot in Jeffersonville at eleven o'clock last night,
pieces of clothing, flesh, blood etc., were found sticking to the pilot and
on the underside of the train. Investigation proved that a man named Kerns
O'Conner, an employee at the Cement Mill six miles back of Jeffersonville,
started home drunk last night and laid down in the cattle guard and probably
fell asleep, and the train passed over him cutting him all to pieces. The
body was strewn along the track for 40 yards. The heart was torn out and
lying on the track 20 yards from where the man was struck. The remains were
collected and interred at Jeffersonville. He is said to have a brother in
St. Louis.