Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1902 — Will Bowman Died of His Injuries [ARTICLE]

Will Bowman Died of His Injuries

The sad news was received here Friday that Will Bowman died last Wednesday Dec. 17th in the hospital at Pueblo, Colorado, from the accident of Friday, Deo. 5, and the particulars of which have already been given. He was run down by a traveling electric crane, in the steel works at Pueblo, in which he was employed as a painter. Will was born and raised in the vicinity of Rensselaer and was the oldest surviving son of his widowed mother Mrs. Mattie E. Henkle. He was 33 or 34 years old, unmarraied, and has lived in the west 10 or 12 years having gone there for the benefit of his health. He was, by all account*, an excellent and industrious young man, and the main stay and hope of bis many times and most sadly afflicted mother. His death leaves but one survivor of the nine children born to her, all of the others having died, one after the other, from consumption. The.one surviving son Sanford is youngert han Will and also a most excellent and industrious boy, but of delicate frame and also considerj ably crippled from the result of a shot gun accident he was the victim of here, a number of years ago.