As Wm. E. Stammer, a breakman on the North Western, was trying to adjust a coupling that failed to work, the engine backed up the train without a signal from him and caught him between the bumpers and so crushed him that he died a few hours later at the Blair hospital. He was conscious for some time and told Dr. Murdoch, the company’s surgeon, who he was and how the accident happened. He was a single man, 26 years of age and lived at Fremont. His mother lives at Lawton, Okla., and a brother at Wichita, Kansas. The brother came up Sunday and took the body to Lawton for burial. Coroner Pierce held an inquest Monday and the verdict of the jury was that the young man came to his death by “negligence of the train crew.” County Attorney Carrigan urged them to add “not criminal,” which was done, else he could have been compelled to start a criminal suit against the crew for murder.