Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1917 — FALLING TREE KILLS MAN [ARTICLE]

FALLING TREE KILLS MAN

CORONER CALLED TO INVESTIGATE DEATH OF ALBERT ALVERSON. Dr. C. E. Johnson, county coroner, received a telephone call at 1 o’clock this .Thursday afternoon from DeMotte asking that he go to the Hebron grade to investigate the death of Albert Alverson, who was killed at about the noon hour by a falling tree. Alverson was clearing a field by chopping down trees, preparatory to building a camp, when the tragedy occurred. No particulars of the accident have been learned, but a detailed account will follow in a later issue.