Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1904 — An Illfated Family. [ARTICLE]

An Illfated Family.

The Keatland Enterprise gives the following particulars of tbe accidental death of Henry Ahlers, of. Beaton county, and « relative of the Ahlers of KTewland, this oonuty: Henry Ahlers, a man about, fifty years of age, was run down aud killed by a Big Four train near Earl Park at some hour during Saturday night. The body was found lying along the railway track early Sunday morning, and was still warm. Mr. Ahlers had started to walk from Earl Park to the home of Mb sister-in-law, who resides on the Doolittle farm south of Kentland, and while ou the way was ran down and killed. He was well known in Kentland and was a brother-in-law of Marshal Rheude. Unnatural deaths seem to follow that family. A brother of Mr. Ahlers wbb killed by a Big Four train at Raub some seven or eight years ago, and still another brother was killed by lightning at his home near Fowler about eighteen years ago.