Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — BROTHER CRUSHED TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

BROTHER CRUSHED TO DEATH

While Coupling Cars at Paris, Hliv nois, MondayMrs. James Butterworth, of near Surrey, received word Monday of the tragic death of her only bro- v ther, Charley Bogue, of Mt. Carmel, Illinois, who was killed at Paris, Illinois, that day.- Mr. Bogue was a freight conductor on the Big Four railroad, and leaves a wife and two children. Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth drove to Danville, Illinois, Tuesday intending to take a train there for Mt. Carmel to attend the funeral, but were unable to make connections and drove on to Georgetown, from which place they called up Mrs. Bogue and learned that the condition of the body was such that it was necessary to bury her husband Tuesday, and as Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth could not reach there in time for the funeral they returned home. Mr. Boyer was making a coupling for a brakeman and in some manner his head was crushed by the bumpers of coupling bar. The unfortunate man’s father died her«» Recently at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James Butterworth, and his mother also resides with the daughter here.