Luke Tiernan Maugans, 33,
a former resident of Washington County, fell from a hotel's three story window to the side walk while sleeping and is killed.

The Omaha Bee gives the following account of the death
of Mr. Luke Tiernan Maugans, formerly of this county.

Just as the little clock in the morning struck the half hour after ten o'clock last night, the tinkle of the telephone bell was heard by the coroner's night watchers. A man has fallen from the window of the Home Hotel and is dead, was the message which came over the wire. Two or three of Coroner Manl's men started for the scene. Directly in front of the doorway lay a large, well built healthy man in a great pool of blood-dead.

His name was Luke Tiernan Maugans, a native of Maryland, but for two years a resident of Nebraska. Maugans had lived at the house for the past eighteen months, and to all appearances was a sober, industrious man. Owing to the excessive heat he had taken a blanket and pillow from his bed, after placing them in position on the third story front window sill, lay down to sleep. It is supposed that in turning over while asleep he lost his balance and fell to the sidewalk. Being a heavy man, the force with which he struck the sidewalk resulted in breaking the neck, death following almost instantly. Maugans was an employee of South Omaha Ice Company at their stable.

The deceased was the son of Mr. Jacob T. Maugans, a blacksmith at Maugansville, this county. He left home about 8 years ago, going to Savannah, Ill., and afterward to Omaha. W. H. Maugans, residing in Corbett's addition, an employee of the Bicycle Works, is a brother. The deceased was aged thirty-three years. His remains were brought to his home in Maugansville.

The funeral took place on Sunday. One hundred and twenty-eight vehicles were in cortege. Interment was made in the Broadfording graveyard. The Pall-Beares were his three brothers-in-law, Calvin Gordon, William Clopper and John Clark and his three brothers, Alvey H., John C., and William H., Calvin Gordon, residing 300 miles from Omaha, accompanied the remains east.



Source: The Herald and Torch Light
(Hagerstown, Maryland)
Thursday August 4, 1892

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