St. Clair County
Remnants Of The Past

Appleton City Journal
20 October 1898

A Fatal Fall.
J.K. Dye, a Stock Man of Mets, Mo. Found Dead and Mangled East of The Missouri Pacific Cut.
(Fort Scott Daily Tribune)
The mangled and lifeless body of a man who was identified by papers in his pocket as L.K. Dye & Company of Metz, Missouri, was found dead about 7:30 o’clock this morning in the ravine west of the Missouri Pacific freight depot. He had evidently fallen from a Missouri Pacific train or walked off the trestle in the darkness of the night.

The deceased was a brother of Mr. Oliver Dye, of Appleton township, and well known to many of the stockmen in Appleton City and the surrounding country, by whom the news of his sad and untimely death as received with expressions of deep sorrow. He was a man that stood high in the esteem of the people in the community in which he resided and his death caused a pall of gloom to come over the faces of neighbors and friends.
Mr. Oliver Dye and family returned Monday from Metz, where they attended the funeral ceremonies.
Facts brought out at the inquest showed that Mr. Dye’s death was caused by falling through the trestle upon which he was walking at the time.