Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1917 — NEGRO KILLED AT MOROCCO [ARTICLE]

NEGRO KILLED AT MOROCCO

Jumped From Auto in Front of Approaching Train. Harry Hannigan, a negro, aged 33 years, was instantly killed at Morocco Friday evening when he became frightened and jumped from an automobile directly in front of an approaching train. His head was crushed and both legs and both arms severed. Hannigan was married and with his wife worked on a farm north of Morocco for Fred Bencke. Han* and Bencke went to Morocco Friday afternoon to do some trading, making the trip in the latter’s auto. They started home about 4 o’clock and as they started across the C. & E. I. tracks they saw a southbound passenger train almost upon them. Hannigan thought the locomotive would hit the auto and jumped, alighting squarely in front of the train. Bencke remained in the car and just cleared the track in safety. The unfortunate man was buried in the Morgan cemetery north of Morocco Saturday afternoon.