Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — EDWARD L. SHEEHAN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

EDWARD L. SHEEHAN KILLED.

Lafayette Contractor Knocked From Bridge by Steel Beam. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 21 .---Edward L. Sheehan, one of tjjie leading contractors of northern inuiana. was killed shortly after noon today, at the new Main street bridge over the Wabash river. He had charge of the gang of men putting in cement wfilks across the bridge. He bad started for home in the Mly and was walking across the bridge when a heavy piece of steel, lowered from the old bridge which is being torn down, fell and struck iUm. He was knocked off t he bridge and fell thir-ty-five feet, alighting on rocks in the river bed. He was dead when the physicians arrived. Mr. Sheehan is survived by a widow and several children. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholicchurch, a member or the Elks lodge, was prominent in democratic politics and was one of the best-known Lafayette citizens.