Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1904 — KILLED IN THE WRECK [ARTICLE]

KILLED IN THE WRECK

A YOUNG JASPER COUHTY MAN Among the Victims of the Terrible Tennessee wreck. There was a moat frightful railroad wreck last Saturday forenoon, on the Southern road, in Tennessee. O*ving to failure of one crew to obey orders to wait,'two big loaded passenger trains oollieded, each running 30 miles an hour. Some 62 persons are dead and over 100 injured, of whom a number will die. Among the instantly killed was John W. Daley, a young man who has lived in this vicinity quite a long time past, and u is well know in Rensselaer. He was traveling for the D. M, Ferry Seed Co., of Detroit with headquarters at Greensboro, Tenn, He is the son of Charles W. Daley, of Sharon, about six miles southeast of town. He has had the Tennessee territory for two years, and left here, to begin bis fall season in July. He was a most estimable young man, about 24 years old, unmarried and one of the principal supportsof his aged parents and his three sisters. The first intelligence of his death oame on Monday; morning in a dispatch to John Eger, their local dealer, from D. M. Ferry & Co, Mr. Eger telephoned to Marion Adams, who carried the sad news to the family, and at their request he telephoned to the Ferry people, to order the body sent back here, and also to notifiy John's brother, Wilford, who travels for the same firm in Kansas.