AMOS H. GRANSHAW, for a number of years a switchman for the Burlington railroad, was instantly killed about 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in an accident on the main line track near the intersection of Seventeenth Street. The coroner's jury empanneled Monday by Coroner Cutler returned a verdict That his death was accidental, but absolving the company from blame for it.

The verdict Monday afternoon at the close of the inquest was that "Granshaw's death was caused by his head and chest being crushed between a mail and baggage car while performing his duties as a switchman for the C.B. & Q. Railway on December 3, 1916, and from the evidence of witnesses submitted we attached no blame to the C.B. & Q. Railway." This verdict was signed by L.L. Evans, W.E. Griffen and W.L. Castor as the jury.

It seemed from the evidence at the inquest that in making up a mail train it is the custom to attach a baggage car at the point of the accident to the rear of a mail car, which is then taken to Omaha. The "tail hose" is so attached that it extends across the bumpers and when the oncoming baggage car was close to the rear of the train, and after Granshaw had given the signal to the engineer to go ahead he stepped between the cars to break this coupling, and thus avoid cutting the hose. Ordinarily this was not a part of his duty in making up the train.

But in some manner, according to the testimony of Selva Scobbee, the flagman who witnessed the accident, as well as other trainmen nearby, the coupling was more obstreperous than usual, and Granshaw's head and shoulders were caught between the two cars and crushed. Death, it is believed, was instantaneous.

Granshaw, who lived with his wife at the Union Hotel at 1628 Third Street was 36 years old. He had been a switchman for the Burlington for several years.

No arrangements had been made for the funeral at a later hour Monday afternoon.

Funeral services for Amos H. Granshaw, switchman for the Burlington road, who was killed early Sunday afternoon when he was crushed between two cars, will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Union Hotel, 1628 Third Street, where he had made his home. Interment will be at Walnut Hill Cemetery.