Caught on a Trestle by a Passenger Train and Killed
Dallas Morning News
March 14, 1893
Forney, Kaufman Co., Tex., March 13 - A horrible accident occurred one mile east of here in the Texas and Pacific railroad. Miss Joella Boler, who lived about two miles east of this place with her parents, had attended church in Forney and was returning home on the railroad track accojmpanied by Willis Moore. They reached a trestle where there is a curve in the road. Passenger train No. 4 was seen coming around the curve. They started across the trestle, thinking they had time to reach the other end; but seeing themselves in close quarters they made a leap for the ground when Miss Boler's foot slipped between the ties and before her companion could free her from her perilous position she was struck by the engine and frightfully mangled. She was knocked from her companion's grasp and he only saved himself by falling out of the way. Her body was torn into fragments and was picked up a piece at a time and laid in a coffin. The remains were carried to Terrell to-day for interment.