Tragic Fate of McCammon Causes Sorrow
Details of the terrible tragedy that cost the life of Mr. Irvin McCammon at Sheffield, Ill., when his automobile was shattered by a C.R.I. & P.R.R. company passenger train, speeding towards Iowa City, before five o'clock in the morning, recently have been received here.
As already related, numerous Iowa university mean and other football fans were on the train that was stopped and held two hours because of the awful accident. They were on their way home from the Iowa-Northwestern game. Monday morning when the tragedy was enacted. Brother Witnessed Horror Mr. McCammon and his brother Roy were en route by auto to St. Paul, Minn. after a visit with their sister, Mrs. Fred Guenther, at Streator, Ill. The fast train came speeding along, bearing Iowa Cityward the football fans who were returning from the festal event at Northwestern. Roy's car, cutting between two sections of a freight train, was able to shoot across the tracks, when the passenger train swiftly sped towards it, but his brother's machine just reached the track, as the passenger reached the point of intersection. The car was rolled under the locomotive, and was almost annihilated, while the driver probably never knew that the tragedy impended, as his vision was shut off, until the moment of the crash. Then death came mercifully, in a second. The victim of the terrible accident was born at oxford, 32 years ago, in March, and was graduated from the high school there, 17 years later. He was a young newspaperman there, but later lived in the northwest, removing to St. Paul, from the Dakotas, about 1920. He was with the Randall printing company there. He was married in 1913, to Miss Bessie Rolfe. Of their four little ones, three survives - Grace, Edith, and Robert, aged seven, five, and one, respectively. The wife and the father, Mr. John McCammon, a pioneer of Oxford, and four sisters and a brother also mourn. They are Mesdames Ruth Meckler, of Mercer, Penn.; Margaret Guenther, Streator, Ill.; Flora Law, Portland, Ore....
Obituary published in the Iowa City Press Citizen on Saturday, 01 December 1923 on page 4
Details of the terrible tragedy that cost the life of Mr. Irvin McCammon at Sheffield, Ill., when his automobile was shattered by a C.R.I. & P.R.R. company passenger train, speeding towards Iowa City, before five o'clock in the morning, recently have been received here.
As already related, numerous Iowa university mean and other football fans were on the train that was stopped and held two hours because of the awful accident. They were on their way home from the Iowa-Northwestern game. Monday morning when the tragedy was enacted. Brother Witnessed Horror Mr. McCammon and his brother Roy were en route by auto to St. Paul, Minn. after a visit with their sister, Mrs. Fred Guenther, at Streator, Ill. The fast train came speeding along, bearing Iowa Cityward the football fans who were returning from the festal event at Northwestern. Roy's car, cutting between two sections of a freight train, was able to shoot across the tracks, when the passenger train swiftly sped towards it, but his brother's machine just reached the track, as the passenger reached the point of intersection. The car was rolled under the locomotive, and was almost annihilated, while the driver probably never knew that the tragedy impended, as his vision was shut off, until the moment of the crash. Then death came mercifully, in a second. The victim of the terrible accident was born at oxford, 32 years ago, in March, and was graduated from the high school there, 17 years later. He was a young newspaperman there, but later lived in the northwest, removing to St. Paul, from the Dakotas, about 1920. He was with the Randall printing company there. He was married in 1913, to Miss Bessie Rolfe. Of their four little ones, three survives - Grace, Edith, and Robert, aged seven, five, and one, respectively. The wife and the father, Mr. John McCammon, a pioneer of Oxford, and four sisters and a brother also mourn. They are Mesdames Ruth Meckler, of Mercer, Penn.; Margaret Guenther, Streator, Ill.; Flora Law, Portland, Ore....
Obituary published in the Iowa City Press Citizen on Saturday, 01 December 1923 on page 4
Tragic Fate of McCammon Causes Sorrow
Details of the terrible tragedy that cost the life of Mr. Irvin McCammon at Sheffield, Ill., when his automobile was shattered by a C.R.I. & P.R.R. company passenger train, speeding towards Iowa City, before five o'clock in the morning, recently have been received here.
As already related, numerous Iowa university mean and other football fans were on the train that was stopped and held two hours because of the awful accident. They were on their way home from the Iowa-Northwestern game. Monday morning when the tragedy was enacted. Brother Witnessed Horror Mr. McCammon and his brother Roy were en route by auto to St. Paul, Minn. after a visit with their sister, Mrs. Fred Guenther, at Streator, Ill. The fast train came speeding along, bearing Iowa Cityward the football fans who were returning from the festal event at Northwestern. Roy's car, cutting between two sections of a freight train, was able to shoot across the tracks, when the passenger train swiftly sped towards it, but his brother's machine just reached the track, as the passenger reached the point of intersection. The car was rolled under the locomotive, and was almost annihilated, while the driver probably never knew that the tragedy impended, as his vision was shut off, until the moment of the crash. Then death came mercifully, in a second. The victim of the terrible accident was born at oxford, 32 years ago, in March, and was graduated from the high school there, 17 years later. He was a young newspaperman there, but later lived in the northwest, removing to St. Paul, from the Dakotas, about 1920. He was with the Randall printing company there. He was married in 1913, to Miss Bessie Rolfe. Of their four little ones, three survives - Grace, Edith, and Robert, aged seven, five, and one, respectively. The wife and the father, Mr. John McCammon, a pioneer of Oxford, and four sisters and a brother also mourn. They are Mesdames Ruth Meckler, of Mercer, Penn.; Margaret Guenther, Streator, Ill.; Flora Law, Portland, Ore....
Obituary published in the Iowa City Press Citizen on Saturday, 01 December 1923 on page 4
Details of the terrible tragedy that cost the life of Mr. Irvin McCammon at Sheffield, Ill., when his automobile was shattered by a C.R.I. & P.R.R. company passenger train, speeding towards Iowa City, before five o'clock in the morning, recently have been received here.
As already related, numerous Iowa university mean and other football fans were on the train that was stopped and held two hours because of the awful accident. They were on their way home from the Iowa-Northwestern game. Monday morning when the tragedy was enacted. Brother Witnessed Horror Mr. McCammon and his brother Roy were en route by auto to St. Paul, Minn. after a visit with their sister, Mrs. Fred Guenther, at Streator, Ill. The fast train came speeding along, bearing Iowa Cityward the football fans who were returning from the festal event at Northwestern. Roy's car, cutting between two sections of a freight train, was able to shoot across the tracks, when the passenger train swiftly sped towards it, but his brother's machine just reached the track, as the passenger reached the point of intersection. The car was rolled under the locomotive, and was almost annihilated, while the driver probably never knew that the tragedy impended, as his vision was shut off, until the moment of the crash. Then death came mercifully, in a second. The victim of the terrible accident was born at oxford, 32 years ago, in March, and was graduated from the high school there, 17 years later. He was a young newspaperman there, but later lived in the northwest, removing to St. Paul, from the Dakotas, about 1920. He was with the Randall printing company there. He was married in 1913, to Miss Bessie Rolfe. Of their four little ones, three survives - Grace, Edith, and Robert, aged seven, five, and one, respectively. The wife and the father, Mr. John McCammon, a pioneer of Oxford, and four sisters and a brother also mourn. They are Mesdames Ruth Meckler, of Mercer, Penn.; Margaret Guenther, Streator, Ill.; Flora Law, Portland, Ore....
Obituary published in the Iowa City Press Citizen on Saturday, 01 December 1923 on page 4
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