BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1902 Walter McAvoy, nineteen years old, was killed on the Monon track at Cloverdale yesterday afternoon in a peculiarly horrifying manner. He had been unloading elm wood poles from his wagon onto a flat car on the Monon side track, piling the wood against standards that kept it from getting off the car. One of the standards, however, was not strong enough to withstand the strain against it, and it gave way, letting the big heap of green timber down on the main track of the road. Some bystanders saw the danger of the collapse and realized the nearness of the fast north bound passenger train, and attempted to flag it, but too late to get it to a stop before it struck the heap of poles. Under these on the main track was McAvoy, who had stepped around the car to see what was going on, just in time to get caught in the entire mass. Friends attempted to pull him out, but the passenger train reached them before the effort to rescue him was a success, and the pile of poles and the young man were both thrown high into the air, and scattered over a large area. McAvoy was killed instantly.