Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1915 — BATTLE GROUND BOY LOST LIFE MONDAY [ARTICLE]

BATTLE GROUND BOY LOST LIFE MONDAY

High SduH Youth Flipped Freight Tram and Broke Neck—Death Was Instantaneous. Albert G. Morehouse, son of Mrs. Amos Mtrrehouse, and a student at the Battle Ground high school, was instantly killed Monday at 4:30 o'clock when he jumped from a Monon freight train and rolling down a 20-foot embankment had his neck broken. The lad took an examination at the high school that day and with a number of other hoys was dismissed early. As the freight train* was passing town the unfortunate youth and others jumped aboard. Morehouse had gone about 100 feet when he jumped off. He lost his footing and rolled down an embankment. He was picked up by his companions and a doctor was called, who found that the neck bad been broken and death was instantaneous. Two years ago last Saturday, on Dec. 19, 1913, Harvey Morehouse, a brother, while wrestling with a companion at the Geneseo school house, two miles west of Battle Ground, dropped dead from exertion.