Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1916 — WILL HALSTEAD MEETS SUDDEN DEATH [ARTICLE]

WILL HALSTEAD MEETS SUDDEN DEATH

Trying to Stop Runaway Team and Falls Under Horses’ Feet, Skull Being Crushed. Will Halstead, of Newton township, .was .killed this Thursday morning at his home, while trying to stop his team, which had become frightened and Was running away. He was unloading com near the house when the team started. He ran to their heads and attempted to hold them and was dragged some distance, when he lot go of the reins and dropped under the horses’ feet. The hoof of one of the horses struck him on tap of the head, crushing ii*« the skull and causing instant death.' The horses after being released ran through a barbed wire fence into the orchard, where they ran against a tree and stopped. The accident happened about 11 o’clock. Deceased lived with his mother on the old Halstead place. He had never married and was over fifty years of age. He was the brother of Rankin Halstead, of Mississippi; Sam, of Wyoming; Dave, Chester, Everett and 0. C., of this county. His mother has been very low for some time and her condition is such that the news of her son’s death has been kept from her, as it is feared that she could not stand the shock the news would cause. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made.