Son of Unknown Childears and Melinda Wheeler. Married to Lydia Amelia Root on 12 Dec 1882. The cemetery record also lists his name with an "A."
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The Emporia Weekly News, 25 Jul 1895, Thursday
J. C. Childers, of Emporia, was killed Thursday in a wreck at Monument, Colo., while attempting to save the wife of a brother workman. Mr. Childers was a boss carpenter of the bridge gang working upon a bridge near Monument. The rear end of a freight train broke through the bridge and the immense mass of cars and tressle work fell in a heap upon the bodies of Mrs. Albert Cooper, wife of one of the Carpenters, and Mr. Childers, who attempted to rescue her. Mr. Childers was well known in Emporia and leaves a wife and four children, living at Fourth and Rural. His mother and a brother also live near Emporia in Fremont township. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. lodge at this place. The body will be brought home for interment.
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The Elk City [KS] Enterprise, 26 Jul 1895, Friday
A PLUNGE TO DEATH.
Three Killed and Fourteen Injured in a Wreck on the Santa Fe.
Denver, Colo., July 19.--A most appalling accident occurred on the Santa Fe road near Monument, Col., at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Local freight train No. 46, consisting of twenty cars heavily laden with lumber and stone, plunged through the bridge a quarter of a mile west of that place, burying beneath the debris the train crew, a number of tramps and several bridge carpenters who were at work repairing the bridge.
The dead are:
Mrs. Albert Cooper, Kansas City, Mo.
J. C. Childers, Kansas City.
Unknown tramp.
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The Emporia Weekly News, 25 Jul 1895, Thursday
J. C. Childers, of Emporia, was killed Thursday in a wreck at Monument, Colo., while attempting to save the wife of a brother workman. Mr. Childers was a boss carpenter of the bridge gang working upon a bridge near Monument. The rear end of a freight train broke through the bridge and the immense mass of cars and tressle work fell in a heap upon the bodies of Mrs. Albert Cooper, wife of one of the Carpenters, and Mr. Childers, who attempted to rescue her. Mr. Childers was well known in Emporia and leaves a wife and four children, living at Fourth and Rural. His mother and a brother also live near Emporia in Fremont township. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. lodge at this place. The body will be brought home for interment.
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The Elk City [KS] Enterprise, 26 Jul 1895, Friday
A PLUNGE TO DEATH.
Three Killed and Fourteen Injured in a Wreck on the Santa Fe.
Denver, Colo., July 19.--A most appalling accident occurred on the Santa Fe road near Monument, Col., at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Local freight train No. 46, consisting of twenty cars heavily laden with lumber and stone, plunged through the bridge a quarter of a mile west of that place, burying beneath the debris the train crew, a number of tramps and several bridge carpenters who were at work repairing the bridge.
The dead are:
Mrs. Albert Cooper, Kansas City, Mo.
J. C. Childers, Kansas City.
Unknown tramp.
Son of Unknown Childears and Melinda Wheeler. Married to Lydia Amelia Root on 12 Dec 1882. The cemetery record also lists his name with an "A."
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The Emporia Weekly News, 25 Jul 1895, Thursday
J. C. Childers, of Emporia, was killed Thursday in a wreck at Monument, Colo., while attempting to save the wife of a brother workman. Mr. Childers was a boss carpenter of the bridge gang working upon a bridge near Monument. The rear end of a freight train broke through the bridge and the immense mass of cars and tressle work fell in a heap upon the bodies of Mrs. Albert Cooper, wife of one of the Carpenters, and Mr. Childers, who attempted to rescue her. Mr. Childers was well known in Emporia and leaves a wife and four children, living at Fourth and Rural. His mother and a brother also live near Emporia in Fremont township. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. lodge at this place. The body will be brought home for interment.
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The Elk City [KS] Enterprise, 26 Jul 1895, Friday
A PLUNGE TO DEATH.
Three Killed and Fourteen Injured in a Wreck on the Santa Fe.
Denver, Colo., July 19.--A most appalling accident occurred on the Santa Fe road near Monument, Col., at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Local freight train No. 46, consisting of twenty cars heavily laden with lumber and stone, plunged through the bridge a quarter of a mile west of that place, burying beneath the debris the train crew, a number of tramps and several bridge carpenters who were at work repairing the bridge.
The dead are:
Mrs. Albert Cooper, Kansas City, Mo.
J. C. Childers, Kansas City.
Unknown tramp.
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The Emporia Weekly News, 25 Jul 1895, Thursday
J. C. Childers, of Emporia, was killed Thursday in a wreck at Monument, Colo., while attempting to save the wife of a brother workman. Mr. Childers was a boss carpenter of the bridge gang working upon a bridge near Monument. The rear end of a freight train broke through the bridge and the immense mass of cars and tressle work fell in a heap upon the bodies of Mrs. Albert Cooper, wife of one of the Carpenters, and Mr. Childers, who attempted to rescue her. Mr. Childers was well known in Emporia and leaves a wife and four children, living at Fourth and Rural. His mother and a brother also live near Emporia in Fremont township. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. lodge at this place. The body will be brought home for interment.
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The Elk City [KS] Enterprise, 26 Jul 1895, Friday
A PLUNGE TO DEATH.
Three Killed and Fourteen Injured in a Wreck on the Santa Fe.
Denver, Colo., July 19.--A most appalling accident occurred on the Santa Fe road near Monument, Col., at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Local freight train No. 46, consisting of twenty cars heavily laden with lumber and stone, plunged through the bridge a quarter of a mile west of that place, burying beneath the debris the train crew, a number of tramps and several bridge carpenters who were at work repairing the bridge.
The dead are:
Mrs. Albert Cooper, Kansas City, Mo.
J. C. Childers, Kansas City.
Unknown tramp.
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James Childears' name is spelled Childears on the monument, but the newspaper and most of the other Childers in town spell it without the
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