Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1899 — A Sad Accident at Kankakee. [ARTICLE]

A Sad Accident at Kankakee.

A most lamentable accident occurred at Kankakee, 111., last Friday, whereby an excellent young man, a former resident of this county, lost his life. The victim was Edward Hoehn, a son of George Hoehn, a former well known and greatly respected citizen of Wheatfield. Mr. Hoehn has a meat market in Kankakee and his son drove his delivery wagon. Friday the young man after a long wait in the wagon for an Illinois Central freight train to get off a crossing, started to cross the railroad, just as the caboose of the freight cleared the crossing. He had just got over that track and on to another on the other side, when a fast express train struck his buggy. He was thrown a great distance, and several bones broken and many internal injuries sustained. He lived until Monday morning, but never regained consciousness. On the same day on which the fatal accident occurred, but earlier in the day, a young daughter of Mr. Hoehn’s very narrowly escaped death. She fell into the Kankakee river and was just going down for the third time when she was rescued. The particulars of these occurrences were brought by Geo F. Meyers, the Kniman real-estate agent, who was in Kankakee Monday, and who is an old acquaintance of Mr. Hoehn, and who is in town Tuesday.