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    1. [KS-OLD-NEWSPAPERS] Horrible Death: Frank CLAPP
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    3. The La Cygne Weekly Journal Linn County Saturday December 2, 1882 A young man by the name of Frank CLAPP, engaged as a brakeman on the Gulf road, met with a horrible death Wednesday night near Rich Hill Junction. He was working on freight No. 10, running northward, and in some manner, it is not known how, he fell under the wheels and was literally crushed and mashed to piececs. He was not missed until No. 10 reached Pleasanton. No. 9, afterwards going south, found the remains in the terrible conditioin spoken of, when they were placed together in a box and conveyed to an undertaker's establishment in Pleasanton.

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