Joe Huff LAST NAME: Huff FIRST NAME: Joe MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: Abt 1896 DIED: 8 Aug 1941 BURIED: 9 Aug 1941 ETHNICITY:  Aftican American OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:   DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  Suicide on train tracks. OBITUARY:  NEGRO SUICIDE BENEATH TRAIN. Thows Himself Into Path of Engine at 12th and Ferry. Death of Joe Huff, negro transient, about 45, early Friday afternoon beneath the wheels of a Southern Pacific passenger train in Salem was apparently by suicide, Coroner L. E. Barrick declared shortly after the name had been seen to throw himself or stumble into the path of an oncoming locomotive. Wlaking slowly in a diagonal path across Twelfth street south of Ferry just as number 18, a passenger train from the south approached the crossing at a reported speed of 12 miles an hour, Huff seemed to leap on to the tracks directly in front of the engine, Wavel Gentry, Mary Parrish and Lucille Schwitchenbery, witnesses, told Police Officer Walter Kestly. J. J. Kirby, Portland, engineer, as he stood at the window on the opposite side of the cab did not see the negro's approach, but Frank M. Pike, fireman, also of Portland, from his observation post realized what was happening, and the train was stopped beside the mutilated body. A patent remidy booklet carried the man's only idenitification, the name "Joe Huff," the word "Silverton" and a few figures, Kestly said. Ersel Mundinger, city police patrolman, Friday night identi-[ the rest of the article, is said to continue on page 2, but page 2 was not on the microfilm] Oregon Statesman 9 Aug 1941 1:4 INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  OSBH DC (Marion County 1941) #698 OS 9 Aug 1941 1:4 CONTACTS:  LOT: ? SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: