t)egan to totter and soon fell from the platform…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

nd Pullman conductor run out of the Pullman car, and following them was a man with a pistol in his hand, and to the horror of those in sight they saw the pistol leveled on the conductor and fired. It was seen at once that the conductor was shot, for imediately he ( 7 ) t)egan to totter and soon fell from the platform. After falling he was dragged 200 yards by the bell rope, which had in some way become wrap- ped around his arm. When he was reached he was about dead, giving only two or three groans. The train was still running, and would not have stopped had not the hostler of the engine that brought in the Memphis train realized the situa- tion and blowed the “down whistle,” upon which the train pulled up.