Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — PROF. HOOVER OF RAUB KILLED. [ARTICLE]

PROF. HOOVER OF RAUB KILLED.

Pell Under /loving Train at Fowler and Top of Head Crushed Open, Causing Instant Death. Kentland Enterprise: .Professor Hoover, principal of the Raub schools, met a horrible death Saturday afternoon. In attempting to board a moving freight train at Fowler, where he had spent the day with his brother, Prof. Lewis Hoover, Superintendent of the Fowler High School, he fell under the wheels in such a shape that the upper part of his head, above the ears, was virtually crushed off and his brains were scattered along the track. On arriving at the depot the freight was pulling out and Mr. Hoover attempted to board it. He was carryiug a package of books and papers under one arm, and with the other band caught the guard rail at the front end of the caboose. He either lost his hold or slipped on the step and the moving train swung his body onto the tracks. He was a young man, a graduate of last year, and had only resided in Raub since the opening o f school last fall. His home was at Hagerstown where the body was taken for burial.