Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1893 — Died Easy at Last. [ARTICLE]

Died Easy at Last.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “Singular how a man will die, isn’t it?" said Roy Johnson, of Ogden, Utah, at the Southern, yesterday. “I am just reading of the death of old Tom Martin, who pulled his engine into the car shed one day—last Friday—and then quietly settled back and died, without a word and without a pain. ‘Old Tom’ was one of the pioneers of the road, and as brave a man as ever lived. He fought all through the War of the Rebellion, tana was literally shot to pieces, but he lived. Then he came out to our country and went to railroading. One day a freight smashed head on into his engine, and Tom was buried under, the debris. His right leg was so badlv torn that it had to be amputated. In addition to this the escaping steam and the fallen fire had practically boiled and roasted him alive, and yet hqjived through it all. He never could get used to his cork leg; that annoyed him getting up and down from the cab. It’s funny to think that a man who all his life has. stood in the very presence of a vio- ' Lent death should go off so quietly J and peacefully."