Coroner Donaldson and Constable Woodhurst returned Wednesday from Dickens where they held an inquest over the remains of the boy who was foun dead on the B. & M. railroad track. The victim of the accident proved to be Henry Woodgate, son of Frank Woodgate of Wellfleet, and was sixteen years of age. He had been working at Moorefield, and had written that he would be home Friday night. He passed through Wellfleet Saturday night, but for some reason failed to get off. The body was frightfully mutilated—the cars passing over it above the hips, and both legs and one arm was severed. The coroner’s jury exonerated the railroad company from any blame; the supposition being that he fell from the train while asleep.

The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune, Friday, September 10. 1897