Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Piled In With The Corpse. [ARTICLE]

Piled In With The Corpse.

Lansing, 111., Jan. 17.—About as grewsome a story developing out of the now famous blizzard of Jan. 12, 1918, is that told by J. Knezer, a Blue Island undertaker, who was taking a corpse there from Oak Glen. He was stuck in a snow-drift in the road miles from nowhere and for 20 hours was unable to get out of the drift. He climbed in the ambulance with the corpse to get shelter from the raging blizzard over night in the snow. The remains were those of W. H. Sweat, superintendent of the Lansing brickyard, who dropped dead while shoveling snow at Oak Glen.