SUDDEN DEATH ABOARD TRAIN

ANDREW PFANDA OF CULBERTSON SUCCUMBED TO APPENDICITIS WHILE ENROUTE TO HOSPITAL

Away from his mother, on board train No. 6, enroute from Culbertson to Williston where he was hurrying to receive medical aid, Andrew Pfanda passed into eternity unnoticed until he had been dead for some time. With his head in his hand he had been resting wearily against the window and the two men who were attending him sat apart thinking he had dropped asleep. A passenger going thru the car noticed the peculiar appearance of his face and calling the conductor's attention to him it was found that the man was dead. Pfanda had been working with Bob Fitzsimmons crowd of bridge carpenters at Culbertson and on Tuesday was taken with a severe attack of cramps. He went to a drug store where he took a dose of Jamaica ginger without receiving relief and was later treated by a local physician. Not becoming any better he was placed in care of two of his fellow workers and placed aboard the train for Williston where he hoped to receive relief. Coroner Thomas met the train upon being notified and after an examination it was found unnecessary to hold a post-mortem examination. Dr Belyea found that the deceased undoubtedly had died from appendicitis which had developed some time ago and not being treated soon developed with fatal results. Young Pfanda lived with his mother on a homestead twenty miles north of Culbertson. She arrived here Wednesday night and her statement to Dr. Belyea confimed {sp} his diagnosis.

Williston Graphic, 8/29/1907