Russell Crow was last seen leaving home (Arkansas) in 1915 with a jug of whiskey. His remains and those of his older brother, Brandt, were found near the railroad tracks, in pieces. Sad end for a boy
Admin Update 8/27/2020:
A few moments after sharing this photo Cheryl found the following 1915 article which we believe documents the death of the Crow Brothers. Please note his name was Richard and not Russell. Newspaper Article about the Crow Brothers death by train
Russell Crow (shown here with his two dogs) and his older brother Brandt left their home in Arkansas with a jug of whiskey in 1915 and were never seen alive again. Their remains were found scattered around a railroad track. We can only assume that they drank a little heavily and fell asleep on the tracks before being killed by a train.
Names do not match exactly but Brandt could be the middle name of A. B. Has to be the same brothers. This article was one week after the first and in the same newspaper.
That father was grieving, but there's no way a train can stop in time, let alone almost come to a stop and then build up enough speed again to run them down. That was grief talking. I truely hope they were passed fully out and never felt a thing, though that would have made an excellent cover for a mugging/murder. Horrible situation.
The article doesn't say the dog was cut to ribbons, so the dog could have been killed simply by being a little too close to the tracks when the train went by, maybe even barking at its owner when it got hit.
The fact is that dogs get hit by cars by the thousands every day because they don't gauge the speed well of the oncoming vehicle or recognize the distance or how much time they have to get clear.
Statistics show that, in the US alone, approximately 1.2 million dogs get hit by cars every year.
There's absolutely no reason to assume their deaths might have been suspicious.
This article is from 2012:
"Pedestrian railroad accidents are the leading cause of death on railways. More than 7,200 pedestrians have been killed by trains in the United States since 1997. An additional 6,400 have been injured. Each year on average about 500 are killed."
And most of these deaths are not due to people sleeping on the tracks and being unaware of the train.
You would think these people would have heard the train coming, but there's a reason why they don't until too late:
" 'People assume that trains are loud, but that assumption is based on the fact that when a train’s gone past them in a station, it’s noisy. That’s because the noise a train makes is mainly projected to either side. When trains are moving directly towards you, they are barely audible–until it’s too late...It’s surprisingly easy to overload the brain to the point where it can’t triangulate where sound is coming from.' ”
Jumping to conclusions without checking for other possibilities and facts is what leads to so many conspiracy theories and so much fake news and misinformation.
Dogs are loyal and might well have been beside his/her owner and would not leave? Sounds as if the 2 guys were more than a little hammered, and the poor dog paid the ultimate price for loyalty! We forget - LOTTA folks died on train tracts during the long "railroad era" in this nation! Not nearly as many trains running now, but people still die on train tracts.
Richard Crow died with his brother A. B. (Brant) Crow on July 19th 1915 when a train struck and killed them.
An article reads:
Killed by Train. Fragments of flesh and bones representing less than half of the bodies of A.B. (Brant) Crow, aged 32, and his young brother Richard Crow, 17, who resided at Sellmeyer spur, on the Helena branch railroad, 4 miles south of Knobel, were found scattered for a great distance along the railroad track from a point about 2 miles south of Knobel where northbound passenger train No. 10 struck the unfortunates just before midnight last Saturday.
Small parts of their bodies were found on the locomotive after that train arrived at Poplar Bluff Sunday morning. All that could be gathered of their remains, collected by friends and citizens, and placed in a small box, was brought to Knobel Sunday morning where Esq. C. B. Cox, acting coroner, empanelled a jury and held an inquest, whose verdict accorded with these statements. The Crow brothers were last seen alive as they left Knobel for their home Saturday evening about 7 o' clock with a jug of whiskey. The elder Crow leaves a widow and three children. The young men were sons of Parson Crow, a Baptist minister.
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