Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — YOUNG CIVIL ENGINEER KILLED AT CEDAR LAKE. [ARTICLE]

YOUNG CIVIL ENGINEER KILLED AT CEDAR LAKE.

IV* 4-4- AV TV I. 3*f .i. , .v'?*■/*'* * 1 V' J-Vb ’•’’ ■ j vey of the Monon railway curves at Cedar Lake at the time. Callahan stood at the southeast corner of the Sigler bathhouse on the lake shore, about 200 feet from the tracks with the instrument. Beckett'stood on the main track holding the flag pole. Callahan, who heard the train approaching about 300 to 450 feet away, said he supposed Beckett also heard it, waved his arms that the point was alright, and expected that Beckett would then step off the track, instead of which he stooped and marked the point on the West rail, after which he stood up, facing Callahan and looked in the direction of' the train which was close on him. He turned and an angling direction to the west side of the track and Callahan supposed be had cleared the track safely. After the train had passed he ran to thi track, but could not find his friend at 'first, but soon-located him about 35 feet aifray, dead, it being presumed that the cylinder of the engine struck him. He was badly* bruised and his bones were broken and he was injured about the head, but tils features were opt marred. The dead man’s home is in Millville, N. J.,' and he graduated at Purdue university at Lafayette, last June. He, was a little past 21 years of age, close to six feet tall and good looking. Mr. Callaban was at Purdue in 1908, and h|s home is at LafayettA He was greatly* shocked at the death of his friend and fellow surveyor. An inquest, was held over the retrains by Deputy Coroner William Sheets, of Lowell, the verdict being accidentally killed by the railway train. The body was brought to Lowell and prepared for shipment to Chicago this morning, from which point it will be shipped his home in New Jersey.