KERLEY IS KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN
Steps From Behind One Just Ahead of Another Bound In Opposite Direction.
J. B. Kerley, aged 55, was run down and killed by a west bound Rock Island freight train at 5:45 Saturday afternoon near the Thirteenth street crossing in - East Moline. He died almost instantly. 'His head was cut and ribs on the left side were crushed in. He was otherwise severely bruised and lacerated in numerous places. The body was hurled to the side by the engine.
Mr. Kerley was taking a short-cut on a path that runs diagonally across the tracks and the railway right of way between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. He had waited till an east-bound train passed, and as it went by he stepped from behind it and walked directly onto the west-bound track in front of another train moving in the opposite direction.
Coroner J.G. Miller held an inquest last evening at the Angevine under-taking parlors, the Jury returning a verdict of accidental death, in accord with the facts.
For some time Mr. Kerley has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. R.E. Garrett, an attendant, at Watertown hospital, residing at 2025 Third avenue, East Moline. His daughter, two brothers. Dr. Q, A. Kerley of Randolph. Neb., and Robert of Simpson, Ill., and a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Gibson of Creal Springs, 111., survive him. Remains are to be taken to his former home in the southern part of the state for burial. Services at 4 this afternoon in the Garrett residence were conducted by Rev. J. V. Kennedy.
Mr. Kerley was born Nov. 15. 1859, in Simpson, Ill. He had resided in East Moline three years.
Rock Island Argus, July 02, 1917, Page 9
Steps From Behind One Just Ahead of Another Bound In Opposite Direction.
J. B. Kerley, aged 55, was run down and killed by a west bound Rock Island freight train at 5:45 Saturday afternoon near the Thirteenth street crossing in - East Moline. He died almost instantly. 'His head was cut and ribs on the left side were crushed in. He was otherwise severely bruised and lacerated in numerous places. The body was hurled to the side by the engine.
Mr. Kerley was taking a short-cut on a path that runs diagonally across the tracks and the railway right of way between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. He had waited till an east-bound train passed, and as it went by he stepped from behind it and walked directly onto the west-bound track in front of another train moving in the opposite direction.
Coroner J.G. Miller held an inquest last evening at the Angevine under-taking parlors, the Jury returning a verdict of accidental death, in accord with the facts.
For some time Mr. Kerley has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. R.E. Garrett, an attendant, at Watertown hospital, residing at 2025 Third avenue, East Moline. His daughter, two brothers. Dr. Q, A. Kerley of Randolph. Neb., and Robert of Simpson, Ill., and a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Gibson of Creal Springs, 111., survive him. Remains are to be taken to his former home in the southern part of the state for burial. Services at 4 this afternoon in the Garrett residence were conducted by Rev. J. V. Kennedy.
Mr. Kerley was born Nov. 15. 1859, in Simpson, Ill. He had resided in East Moline three years.
Rock Island Argus, July 02, 1917, Page 9
KERLEY IS KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN
Steps From Behind One Just Ahead of Another Bound In Opposite Direction.
J. B. Kerley, aged 55, was run down and killed by a west bound Rock Island freight train at 5:45 Saturday afternoon near the Thirteenth street crossing in - East Moline. He died almost instantly. 'His head was cut and ribs on the left side were crushed in. He was otherwise severely bruised and lacerated in numerous places. The body was hurled to the side by the engine.
Mr. Kerley was taking a short-cut on a path that runs diagonally across the tracks and the railway right of way between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. He had waited till an east-bound train passed, and as it went by he stepped from behind it and walked directly onto the west-bound track in front of another train moving in the opposite direction.
Coroner J.G. Miller held an inquest last evening at the Angevine under-taking parlors, the Jury returning a verdict of accidental death, in accord with the facts.
For some time Mr. Kerley has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. R.E. Garrett, an attendant, at Watertown hospital, residing at 2025 Third avenue, East Moline. His daughter, two brothers. Dr. Q, A. Kerley of Randolph. Neb., and Robert of Simpson, Ill., and a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Gibson of Creal Springs, 111., survive him. Remains are to be taken to his former home in the southern part of the state for burial. Services at 4 this afternoon in the Garrett residence were conducted by Rev. J. V. Kennedy.
Mr. Kerley was born Nov. 15. 1859, in Simpson, Ill. He had resided in East Moline three years.
Rock Island Argus, July 02, 1917, Page 9
Steps From Behind One Just Ahead of Another Bound In Opposite Direction.
J. B. Kerley, aged 55, was run down and killed by a west bound Rock Island freight train at 5:45 Saturday afternoon near the Thirteenth street crossing in - East Moline. He died almost instantly. 'His head was cut and ribs on the left side were crushed in. He was otherwise severely bruised and lacerated in numerous places. The body was hurled to the side by the engine.
Mr. Kerley was taking a short-cut on a path that runs diagonally across the tracks and the railway right of way between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. He had waited till an east-bound train passed, and as it went by he stepped from behind it and walked directly onto the west-bound track in front of another train moving in the opposite direction.
Coroner J.G. Miller held an inquest last evening at the Angevine under-taking parlors, the Jury returning a verdict of accidental death, in accord with the facts.
For some time Mr. Kerley has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. R.E. Garrett, an attendant, at Watertown hospital, residing at 2025 Third avenue, East Moline. His daughter, two brothers. Dr. Q, A. Kerley of Randolph. Neb., and Robert of Simpson, Ill., and a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Gibson of Creal Springs, 111., survive him. Remains are to be taken to his former home in the southern part of the state for burial. Services at 4 this afternoon in the Garrett residence were conducted by Rev. J. V. Kennedy.
Mr. Kerley was born Nov. 15. 1859, in Simpson, Ill. He had resided in East Moline three years.
Rock Island Argus, July 02, 1917, Page 9
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