Bloomington (Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana) Evening World, July 8, 1910, p. 1. KILLED BY CARS IN CHICAGO James Woods Rejects Promotion and Meets Death as Freight Conductor. The body of James Woods arrived here from Chicago at 3:30 this morning and was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Carmichael, north Grant street. The funeral party went to Mount Salem cemetery this afternoon where the interment took place. The deceased was a railroad conductor in Chicago and was accidentally killed by being rolled between the cars. He lived at the hospital a short time after the accident. He had been promoted from the freight to passenger services but returned to the freight department, saying that the [sic] liked it better than a passenger run. He was 51 years old and a Mason.