Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — FATAL ACCIDENT AT REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FATAL ACCIDENT AT REMINGTON.

John Reed, Sr., Run Over and Killed By a Freight Car. ■/Remington was the scene of a distressing and fatal accident Wednesday at about 11 o’clock a. m. John Reed, Sr,, a well known retired farmer formerly residing in Jordan tp., but for the past three years a resident of Remington, was walking north from Parker’s bank, and in crossing the railroad tracks was struck by a car that was being switched by the Panhandle local, thrown under the wheels and so badly cut up that he lived but a few moments. <The crossing is a very dangerous one. Mr. Reed was an old resident of this county. He leaves four sons, Mike, now a residenbof Jennings county, and John, Thomas and W. J. Reed of this county. His wife died in 1897. The funeral was held yesterday at 10 a. m., from Sacred Heart Catholic church at Remington, and interment made in the Catholic cemetery west of Remington.