This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pilmer Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3400 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho June 17, 1893 Who is the Dead Man? John Pilmer, who came down from Caldwell yesterday afternoon on a freight train, says there is a dead man lying by the track just beyond the Snake river bridge, near what is known as the Landon spur, some twenty miles from Payette. The train did not stop, but Mr. Pilmer could see that the man’s head had been crushed and he had apparently been killed by falling from a moving train. There was a man with some small children near by who appeared to be watching the body, and it is supposed that the coroner had been notified. From the ragged clothing and general appearance of the body, as seen from the passing train, Mr. Pilmer thinks the man was a tramp, and must have lain there in the broiling sun for several hours.