Lassen Advocate, Susanville, California 28 April 1898 3;1 Billy Meikle's Death. A dispatch from Redding gives the following particulars of the accident which Billy Meikle lost his life. News reached this city of the frightful death of Billy Meikle, a driver on the stage line between Lake City and Fort Bidwell in Modoc County, who was dragged to death under the heals of his runaway team. His horses took fright of some object along the roadside and made a wild plunge throwing him from the front box over the front boot and under the horses feet. In the fall he carried the lines with him and he became entangled so that he was carried along in a helpless condition. The wheeler's heels were striking him at every jump and he was cruelly mangled, while being dragged along the rough roadbed. When the horses were checked in their flight and Meikle was extricated he was in a dying condition and lived but a short time. He was a mass of bruises and was covered with blood. Meikle was one of the best known drivers in that section. He was also well known in Lakeview, Oregon and along the stage line from Bieber north to Alturas in Modoc County.