Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1904 — Killed By The Cars. [ARTICLE]

Killed By The Cars.

GIFFORD ROAD’S _ FIRST FATALITY. Frank Archer of Kersey Is The Unfortunate Victim. The first fatal aooident oa the Gifford railroad tcoured Tuesday morning and resulted in the death of Frank Aroher, of Kersey. The lamentable affair took plaoe on the ooDstruotion train, whioh waa working on the Lake ooanty aide of the Kankakee river; end near Beach Ridge. The train consisted of three oars loaded with timbers and the engine. Aroher was the brakesman, The last two oars broke apart from the others, Aroher being on these two. He signaled to the engineer, and the latter stopped. The oars Aroher was on bnmped the otbeis so hard they rebounded several feet baok. Aroher seemed then to have got down between the oars to make the ooupling. and was oanght between the bumpers, about the middle of his body. He was taken at »noe baok to Kersey, but died in about an hour. Mr. Aroher was about 30 or 35 years old and leaves a wife and two ohildren. He had worked on the Gifford road for many years Coroner Wright held the inquest last Wednesday forenoon; and the remains were then taken to Wheatfield for burial, that after noon.