Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — RAY MICHAELS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

RAY MICHAELS KILLED.

Was Brakeman On a North Dakota Railroad. Fell Prom Train aad Killed. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Michaels of south of town, received the sad intelligence Wednesday that their son William R. Michaels had been accidently killed at Wheatland, North Dakota, from falling from a Northern Pacific freight train on which he was a brakeman. The young man was about 21 years of age, and had been in No. Dakota for a couple of years. He was quite badly cut up by the train. The remains were ordered shipped here and it was expected would arrive yesterday or to-day, in which event the funeral will be held from the home of his parents to-morrow at 10 a. m.