Re: Fatality on the SVRy Jan. 15th 1911

Yes Casey there were a lot of employees. Jennings the brakeman was the only one on this crew who's name I had ran into outside of these records as he is identified in a photo. He is the middle guy in the photo attached. His employment record shows him as 6'10" tall, so not exactly a likely candidate for working on the narrow gauge. He must have just about doubled up to get through a caboose doorway. He started with SVRy in Feb. of 1910 and worked to August 1916. He then went to the OWR&N from Nov. '16 to March of '18, then back to the SVRy in June of '18. No idea how long he worked for SVRy after that. These reports and employment records span from about 1909 to the mid 20's with a few outside this period. Even within this time, not all of the records survived as there are certain letters of the alphabet such as B, D, E and F for which there are no records for specif employee names. They appeared to have a lot of turnover with employees going to other roads and often coming back to the SVRy when laid off elsewhere. Besides employees in train service there wre all of the section men for 9 sections during the hey day of the railroad. The number of employees just in the Baker depot surprised me. IIRC there were about 10 people working there. Some of them were designated jobs to transfer freight and express back and forth between the OWR&N and SVRy.