Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 23
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 7, 1902
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EARNEST RICE DEAD.
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       The Boy Crushed by the Freight Train
Sunday Night Died Yesterday.
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       Waco, Aug. 5.--Earnest Rice, the boy who was run over by the Katy freight train Sunday night, died yesterday morning after suffering intense agony.  However, he bore up under the excruciating pain with truly wonderful strength.  It was proposed several times that he be given an opiate, but each time he objected.  He said that he could stand a little thing like that and made fun of those who sympathized with him.  He said he had been away from home a long time and the reason he was away was because he liked to travel.
       The attending physicians did all that they could to save him, but the loss of blood, together with the extent of the wounds, were too much.  Even if he had lived it would have been necessary to have amputated both of his legs, as they were crushed from his knees down and the leg bones were broken in several places.
       Sheriff Baker communicated with his mother at Mineral Wells and found that she was too poor to bear the expense of bringing the remains to that point and money was made up and this expense paid.

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