The True Republican (Sycamore, IL), Aug. 6, 1892:
On last Friday evening or Saturday morning, Thomas Brady, a former section hand at Fielding, met his death in a strange manner near Kirkland. He was last seen sitting on a tie, near the tool house at Kirkland, resting, Friday evening. He was found the next morning on the track with one limb completely severed from the body, and the other had been run over but not cut entirely off. I.N. Miner, Justice of the Peace, at Kirkland, held the inquest, and we were told that the verdict was, “killed by the cars.” Deceased had served in the late war wearing the grey. He was wrapped in an old cloth and put into a machine box, such as twine binders come in. The cracks in the top of the box allowed the earth to sift in over him to the depth of three inches. The box was 15 ¼ inches deep and was covered with 19 inches of earth, in the Cronktown cemetery, where he was taken from Kirkland to be buried, in a wagon used by butchers to draw calves in. All this coming to the ears of William Clark, also an old soldier in the late war, but who wore the blue, at that time, it so roused his indignation that he hustled around lively, and the result was a coffin from Chicago arrived on the train going to Rockford in the forenoon, and in the afternoon Mr. Clark, and son George, also his son-in-law, George Kearsey, in company with Rev. E.D. Hull, of Fielding, also J. F. Belshaw and Harvey Decker, of the same place, drove to the cemetery, exhumed the body and placed it in a fitting resting place at the depth of five feet. All honor to Mr. Clark who would not see an old soldier, even tho’ on the wrong side, buried like a dog.
On last Friday evening or Saturday morning, Thomas Brady, a former section hand at Fielding, met his death in a strange manner near Kirkland. He was last seen sitting on a tie, near the tool house at Kirkland, resting, Friday evening. He was found the next morning on the track with one limb completely severed from the body, and the other had been run over but not cut entirely off. I.N. Miner, Justice of the Peace, at Kirkland, held the inquest, and we were told that the verdict was, “killed by the cars.” Deceased had served in the late war wearing the grey. He was wrapped in an old cloth and put into a machine box, such as twine binders come in. The cracks in the top of the box allowed the earth to sift in over him to the depth of three inches. The box was 15 ¼ inches deep and was covered with 19 inches of earth, in the Cronktown cemetery, where he was taken from Kirkland to be buried, in a wagon used by butchers to draw calves in. All this coming to the ears of William Clark, also an old soldier in the late war, but who wore the blue, at that time, it so roused his indignation that he hustled around lively, and the result was a coffin from Chicago arrived on the train going to Rockford in the forenoon, and in the afternoon Mr. Clark, and son George, also his son-in-law, George Kearsey, in company with Rev. E.D. Hull, of Fielding, also J. F. Belshaw and Harvey Decker, of the same place, drove to the cemetery, exhumed the body and placed it in a fitting resting place at the depth of five feet. All honor to Mr. Clark who would not see an old soldier, even tho’ on the wrong side, buried like a dog.
The True Republican (Sycamore, IL), Aug. 6, 1892:
On last Friday evening or Saturday morning, Thomas Brady, a former section hand at Fielding, met his death in a strange manner near Kirkland. He was last seen sitting on a tie, near the tool house at Kirkland, resting, Friday evening. He was found the next morning on the track with one limb completely severed from the body, and the other had been run over but not cut entirely off. I.N. Miner, Justice of the Peace, at Kirkland, held the inquest, and we were told that the verdict was, “killed by the cars.” Deceased had served in the late war wearing the grey. He was wrapped in an old cloth and put into a machine box, such as twine binders come in. The cracks in the top of the box allowed the earth to sift in over him to the depth of three inches. The box was 15 ¼ inches deep and was covered with 19 inches of earth, in the Cronktown cemetery, where he was taken from Kirkland to be buried, in a wagon used by butchers to draw calves in. All this coming to the ears of William Clark, also an old soldier in the late war, but who wore the blue, at that time, it so roused his indignation that he hustled around lively, and the result was a coffin from Chicago arrived on the train going to Rockford in the forenoon, and in the afternoon Mr. Clark, and son George, also his son-in-law, George Kearsey, in company with Rev. E.D. Hull, of Fielding, also J. F. Belshaw and Harvey Decker, of the same place, drove to the cemetery, exhumed the body and placed it in a fitting resting place at the depth of five feet. All honor to Mr. Clark who would not see an old soldier, even tho’ on the wrong side, buried like a dog.
On last Friday evening or Saturday morning, Thomas Brady, a former section hand at Fielding, met his death in a strange manner near Kirkland. He was last seen sitting on a tie, near the tool house at Kirkland, resting, Friday evening. He was found the next morning on the track with one limb completely severed from the body, and the other had been run over but not cut entirely off. I.N. Miner, Justice of the Peace, at Kirkland, held the inquest, and we were told that the verdict was, “killed by the cars.” Deceased had served in the late war wearing the grey. He was wrapped in an old cloth and put into a machine box, such as twine binders come in. The cracks in the top of the box allowed the earth to sift in over him to the depth of three inches. The box was 15 ¼ inches deep and was covered with 19 inches of earth, in the Cronktown cemetery, where he was taken from Kirkland to be buried, in a wagon used by butchers to draw calves in. All this coming to the ears of William Clark, also an old soldier in the late war, but who wore the blue, at that time, it so roused his indignation that he hustled around lively, and the result was a coffin from Chicago arrived on the train going to Rockford in the forenoon, and in the afternoon Mr. Clark, and son George, also his son-in-law, George Kearsey, in company with Rev. E.D. Hull, of Fielding, also J. F. Belshaw and Harvey Decker, of the same place, drove to the cemetery, exhumed the body and placed it in a fitting resting place at the depth of five feet. All honor to Mr. Clark who would not see an old soldier, even tho’ on the wrong side, buried like a dog.
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