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- Bisbee Daily Review
March 7, 1907
YOUNG TRAINMAN IS GROUND TO DEATH
C. Choate, Formerly of Tombstone, Loses Life While at Work in Cananea -- Death Was Instantaneous
CANANEA, Mex., March 6.-- As a result of missing his footing while working on the electric car line over which the slag is hauled, C. Choate, an employe of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, was ground to death beneath the wheels of the cars this morning. The young man formerly lived in Cochise county.
Choate was formerly employed at Tombstone, and under the regime of Sheriff Hunt was a guard at the county jail. When Hunt went out of office on the first of the new year, the young man came to Cananea and secured work on the slag car line.
About 10:30 this morning Choate was riding between two of the cars in a train, when suddenly he disappeared from sight, and the next seen of him was when the last wheel on the end car passed over his mangled remains. He had been killed instantly.
The body was removed to an undertaking establishment and word sent to Tombstone, in an effort to locate his two brothers.
One of Choate's brothers resides near Douglas, while the other owns a ranch in the Chiricahua mountains and is enagage din the cattle business. - Tombstone Ariz. Prospector
Eaph Choate was the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Choate Sr. and was born Jan. 3, 1874 on Wallace Creek, which was his home until 1899 when he went to Arizona where he resided until a short time before his death, going to Cananea, Mexico. He leaves a father and mother, one sister and five brothers to morn his sad and untimely death. A brother Austin Choate, and sister Mrs. Jas. Sharp, live in this county."
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