ACCIDENT VERDICT IN HAMMER DEATH
An accident verdict was returned by the coroner's jury Tuesday in the death of Jack Hammer of Edelstein, who was killed Tuesday afternoon of last week when a train hit a motor car on which he was working near Edelstein.
Funeral services for Mr. Hammer were held Thursday afternoon at the Princeville Methodist church, conducted by Rev. A. A. Rogers of Chillicothe. Interment was in the Princeville cemetery, with the Masons in charge.
Mr. Hammer, Sante Fe section foreman, met a tragic death three miles east of Edelstein, while attempting to remove his motor car from the tracks in the face of an oncoming work train, eastbound, drowned out the approaching work train, making it impossible for the men to notice the approaching danger.
Charles Hart attempted to assist Mr. Hammer in removing the car and in so doing, miraculously escaped meeting the same fate. A push car of loaded ties hurtled the air striking Mr. Hammer and killing him instantly. He had just a few minutes before reported a westbound passenger train to be afire and the train the killed him was on its way to Monica to repair the damage.
John David Hammer, son of Henry and Emma Metzel Hammer, was born in Princeville, Dec. 14, 1890. He grew to manhood here and attended the public schools.
At the age of 16 he started working on the Sante Fe as a chainman for the engineers, two years later becoming a foreman.
On June 18, 1913, he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Thorneycroft of Wyoming and to that union were born three sons and two daughters—Raymond of Rome, Richard F. of Ft. Riley, Kans., Mrs. Virginia Cable of Rome, Mrs. Helen Foster of Edelstein and Jackie of home. These children and the wife survive. Also surviving are four granddaughters, three brothers, William and Fred of Princeville and Charles of Kickapoo, and three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Custer, Mrs. Della Koch and Mrs. Cora Harbors, all of Peoria.
In early manhood Mr. Hammer joined the Princeville Methodist church, later transferring his membership to the Congregational church of Edelstein. It was his expressed desire to be buried from Princeville where he lived so many years.
Mr. Hammer was an active member of the Lawn Ridge A.F. & A. M. lodge, having belonged since 1924.
He and his family moved to Edelstein in March 1920. Mr. Hammer was a man who loved his family and friends, numbered by the legions. He will be sorely missed in this community and by the Sante Fe, for which he gave so many years of service.
Princeville Telephone, May 1943.
An accident verdict was returned by the coroner's jury Tuesday in the death of Jack Hammer of Edelstein, who was killed Tuesday afternoon of last week when a train hit a motor car on which he was working near Edelstein.
Funeral services for Mr. Hammer were held Thursday afternoon at the Princeville Methodist church, conducted by Rev. A. A. Rogers of Chillicothe. Interment was in the Princeville cemetery, with the Masons in charge.
Mr. Hammer, Sante Fe section foreman, met a tragic death three miles east of Edelstein, while attempting to remove his motor car from the tracks in the face of an oncoming work train, eastbound, drowned out the approaching work train, making it impossible for the men to notice the approaching danger.
Charles Hart attempted to assist Mr. Hammer in removing the car and in so doing, miraculously escaped meeting the same fate. A push car of loaded ties hurtled the air striking Mr. Hammer and killing him instantly. He had just a few minutes before reported a westbound passenger train to be afire and the train the killed him was on its way to Monica to repair the damage.
John David Hammer, son of Henry and Emma Metzel Hammer, was born in Princeville, Dec. 14, 1890. He grew to manhood here and attended the public schools.
At the age of 16 he started working on the Sante Fe as a chainman for the engineers, two years later becoming a foreman.
On June 18, 1913, he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Thorneycroft of Wyoming and to that union were born three sons and two daughters—Raymond of Rome, Richard F. of Ft. Riley, Kans., Mrs. Virginia Cable of Rome, Mrs. Helen Foster of Edelstein and Jackie of home. These children and the wife survive. Also surviving are four granddaughters, three brothers, William and Fred of Princeville and Charles of Kickapoo, and three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Custer, Mrs. Della Koch and Mrs. Cora Harbors, all of Peoria.
In early manhood Mr. Hammer joined the Princeville Methodist church, later transferring his membership to the Congregational church of Edelstein. It was his expressed desire to be buried from Princeville where he lived so many years.
Mr. Hammer was an active member of the Lawn Ridge A.F. & A. M. lodge, having belonged since 1924.
He and his family moved to Edelstein in March 1920. Mr. Hammer was a man who loved his family and friends, numbered by the legions. He will be sorely missed in this community and by the Sante Fe, for which he gave so many years of service.
Princeville Telephone, May 1943.
ACCIDENT VERDICT IN HAMMER DEATH
An accident verdict was returned by the coroner's jury Tuesday in the death of Jack Hammer of Edelstein, who was killed Tuesday afternoon of last week when a train hit a motor car on which he was working near Edelstein.
Funeral services for Mr. Hammer were held Thursday afternoon at the Princeville Methodist church, conducted by Rev. A. A. Rogers of Chillicothe. Interment was in the Princeville cemetery, with the Masons in charge.
Mr. Hammer, Sante Fe section foreman, met a tragic death three miles east of Edelstein, while attempting to remove his motor car from the tracks in the face of an oncoming work train, eastbound, drowned out the approaching work train, making it impossible for the men to notice the approaching danger.
Charles Hart attempted to assist Mr. Hammer in removing the car and in so doing, miraculously escaped meeting the same fate. A push car of loaded ties hurtled the air striking Mr. Hammer and killing him instantly. He had just a few minutes before reported a westbound passenger train to be afire and the train the killed him was on its way to Monica to repair the damage.
John David Hammer, son of Henry and Emma Metzel Hammer, was born in Princeville, Dec. 14, 1890. He grew to manhood here and attended the public schools.
At the age of 16 he started working on the Sante Fe as a chainman for the engineers, two years later becoming a foreman.
On June 18, 1913, he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Thorneycroft of Wyoming and to that union were born three sons and two daughters—Raymond of Rome, Richard F. of Ft. Riley, Kans., Mrs. Virginia Cable of Rome, Mrs. Helen Foster of Edelstein and Jackie of home. These children and the wife survive. Also surviving are four granddaughters, three brothers, William and Fred of Princeville and Charles of Kickapoo, and three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Custer, Mrs. Della Koch and Mrs. Cora Harbors, all of Peoria.
In early manhood Mr. Hammer joined the Princeville Methodist church, later transferring his membership to the Congregational church of Edelstein. It was his expressed desire to be buried from Princeville where he lived so many years.
Mr. Hammer was an active member of the Lawn Ridge A.F. & A. M. lodge, having belonged since 1924.
He and his family moved to Edelstein in March 1920. Mr. Hammer was a man who loved his family and friends, numbered by the legions. He will be sorely missed in this community and by the Sante Fe, for which he gave so many years of service.
Princeville Telephone, May 1943.
An accident verdict was returned by the coroner's jury Tuesday in the death of Jack Hammer of Edelstein, who was killed Tuesday afternoon of last week when a train hit a motor car on which he was working near Edelstein.
Funeral services for Mr. Hammer were held Thursday afternoon at the Princeville Methodist church, conducted by Rev. A. A. Rogers of Chillicothe. Interment was in the Princeville cemetery, with the Masons in charge.
Mr. Hammer, Sante Fe section foreman, met a tragic death three miles east of Edelstein, while attempting to remove his motor car from the tracks in the face of an oncoming work train, eastbound, drowned out the approaching work train, making it impossible for the men to notice the approaching danger.
Charles Hart attempted to assist Mr. Hammer in removing the car and in so doing, miraculously escaped meeting the same fate. A push car of loaded ties hurtled the air striking Mr. Hammer and killing him instantly. He had just a few minutes before reported a westbound passenger train to be afire and the train the killed him was on its way to Monica to repair the damage.
John David Hammer, son of Henry and Emma Metzel Hammer, was born in Princeville, Dec. 14, 1890. He grew to manhood here and attended the public schools.
At the age of 16 he started working on the Sante Fe as a chainman for the engineers, two years later becoming a foreman.
On June 18, 1913, he was united in marriage to Miss Frances Thorneycroft of Wyoming and to that union were born three sons and two daughters—Raymond of Rome, Richard F. of Ft. Riley, Kans., Mrs. Virginia Cable of Rome, Mrs. Helen Foster of Edelstein and Jackie of home. These children and the wife survive. Also surviving are four granddaughters, three brothers, William and Fred of Princeville and Charles of Kickapoo, and three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Custer, Mrs. Della Koch and Mrs. Cora Harbors, all of Peoria.
In early manhood Mr. Hammer joined the Princeville Methodist church, later transferring his membership to the Congregational church of Edelstein. It was his expressed desire to be buried from Princeville where he lived so many years.
Mr. Hammer was an active member of the Lawn Ridge A.F. & A. M. lodge, having belonged since 1924.
He and his family moved to Edelstein in March 1920. Mr. Hammer was a man who loved his family and friends, numbered by the legions. He will be sorely missed in this community and by the Sante Fe, for which he gave so many years of service.
Princeville Telephone, May 1943.
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