Date : 14 May 1917
Location : Holy Redeemer Cemetery, Eyota, MN
J. E. Murphy, a veteran in the service of the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad, met death near Bradley last Thursday. The heavy snow plow toppled over on him, crushing his life out.
The track-clearing crew left Watertown and worked its way northwest. Near Bradley, and after the cut had been partially cleared, the victim was standing in the cut, with his back against the snow wall, while the snow plow was presumably passing, but instead of cutting its way through it toppled over, pinning Mr. Murphy beneath it.
His fellow-workmen made frantic efforts to extricate him, and finally succeeded, but only to find that the man’s bones had been broken and his chest crushed in.
The remains were brought to this city to the Cozy Home undertaking rooms, where they were prepared for burial.
The deceased had been in the employ of the company for more than thirty years. He leaves a wife and one son to mourn his untimely demise.
He was well and favorably known by a wide circle of friends in Watertown and vicinity where he had resided for many years and where he was held in high esteem.
Watertown Saturday News - Feb 22, 1917
