TIMES ARE CHANGING

In June of 1875, as a note of interest Charles Quick was taking telegraphy lessons from station agent A. L. Leonard. Charles was the brother of earlier quoted Herbert Quick.

In December, Mr. A. L. Leonard was run over by a freight train near the depot at Steamboat Rock. The newspaper reported, “The body was mangled, one arm being torn off at the shoulder. Brains were scattered for some distance along the tracks.”

Mr. Leonard’s wife had died three years earlier in childbirth, and now with his death there was a three year old orphan daughter left behind.

The daughter was sent to Eddyville where she would live with relatives.

Leonard was replaced by a station agent by the name of Charles Tateroe. Evidently he was not suited to the town, because in April he was removed, “On complaints of some of the businessmen in town.”

James Mahoney became the new station agent.