Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1904 — How Keefe and Roberts Were Killed. [ARTICLE]

How Keefe and Roberts Were Killed.

The Kentlaud Enterprise gives, as was to be exp 'oted, an exhaustive account of the circumstances of the death of Patiiok Keefe and James B. Roberts, and-* some further details of Whioh will be of interest to our readers. The two men, always great friends, left Sunday Jnly 3rd, for St Louis. Mr. Keefe, as candidate for presidential eleotor and Mr. Robei t< as a proxy for Clermont rider, an alternate delegate, would both have been entitled to seats in the Demooratio National convention. At 5.40 Sunday evening their train was wreoked at Litohfield, 111., a plaoe of some 7,000 inhabitants. One of the oars in their train landed across the engine and was filled with olonds of hot steam. It is supposed Keefe and Roberts were in this oar, They seem to have quiokly got out of the oar and though considerably out and bruieed, and badly scalded, they seoured a oab, and drove olear through the oity to a Catholic hospital, and walked unaided from the street into the hospital. Their outer injuries were not serious, but both died from the effeols of the hot steam they bad breathed; Keefe in about eight and Roberts in about 10 hours. Will Ade and James Chaucellor went to Litohfield as soon as rumors of the wreok reaohed Kentland, and brought the bodies back. Roberts funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, and Keefe’s Thursday forenoon. Their deaths ocourred three years, to a week, from those of Lulu Rider and Mabel Rose, the two Kentland victims of the C. & A. wieok in Missouri. Both were men of great prominenoe in their oommnnity and of the highest personal standing.