Dr. R. S. Towne Accidentally Killed
CRUSHED BY TRUCK UPSET BY TRAIN AT JAMESTOWN DEPOT
Dr. R. S. Towne, Bismarck dentist and a leader in the dental profession in the northwest, died in a Jamestown hospital Monday night from injuries received less than an hour before in an accident at the Jamestown depot of the Northern Pacific railroad. He was 50 years old.
Dr. Towne left Bismarck on the evening train Monday night to attend a convention of the Minnesota Dental association at St. Paul. When the train reached Jamestown he and L. B. Wheadon, also of Bismarck, got off to walk in the fresh air and break the monotony of their journey.
A truck loaded with cream cans had been left standing too near the track nearest the station and was struck by the engine of the branch line train from Oakes which was pulling into the station.
The express truck was catapulted into Dr. Towne, crushing him against the station wall, according to information received here. His chest was badly crushed by the impact. Taken to the Jamestown hospital he died within an hour. He was conscious until the time of his death.
Police magistrate Frank L. Kellogg, acting coroner in the absence of E. D. Willett, and Russell D. Chase, Stutsman county state's attorney, opened an inquest into Dr. Towne's death Tuesday morning. Testimony of Doctors W. W. Wood and P. G. Artz relative to the autopsy was taken.
The inquest was then adjourned until two o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The jurors are E. J. Rhodes, Vernon Gardner and Harry Wolf.
The body will be brought to Bismarck late this afternoon and will lie at the Webb Funeral chapel.
Roy Salem Towne had occupied an enviable position in the professional, civic and business life of Bismarck for more than 25 years.
Born at Denison, Iowa, May 1, 1885, he was the son of Salem H. and Agnes Calderwood Towne. His father was a native of Whiteside county, Illinois, the son of one of Illinois' first pioneer families. His mother was born in Paisley, Scotland.
Reared and educated in his native county, Dr. Towne's father, following in the footsteps of his own father, moved west with civilization, taking a homestead in Crawford county, Iowa, where he passed the remainder of his life until death came in 1925.
Dr. Towne's father was a Civil war veteran. He enlisted with Company C., 75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served through many engagements, the major ones being the battles of Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain.
Dr. Towne received his primary education in the rural schools of Crawford county and for two years was a student in the Denison Normal college at Denison from which he was graduated in 1904.
For three years Dr. Towne attended the University of Iowa college of dentistry from which he was graduated in June, 1907, with a degree of doctor of dental surgery. At the university he was affiliated with Sigma Nu social fraternity and Delta Sigma Delta, dental fraternity.
Feeling the urge to go westward, like his father and grandfather before him, the young dentist came to North Dakota in 1907, stopping first at Jamestown where he took care of the business of another practitioner for several months. From Jamestown he went to Linton, where he opened a dental office, and a little later he took up the practice of his profession at Washburn.
It was while he was practicing at Washburn that Dr. Towne met Alice Jenny Williams, daughter of General E. A. Williams, Bismarck pioneer.
In 1910 he came to Bismarck and opened a dental office and on Nov. 1, 1911, he was married to Miss Williams. His widow and two children survive. They are Roy Salem, Jr., 10, and Matilda Alice, 8.
A little later he associated himself with the late Drs. G. A. Rawlings and S. B. Toney in the dental clinic of Rawlings, Towne and Toney. Both of his early partners preceded him in death, although it was continued under the name of the Rawlings and Towne dental clinic after the former's death several years ago.
Upon the death of Dr. Rawlings the clinic was reorganized with Dr. Towne as its head and Drs. F. C. Stucke and R. F. Krause as associates.
Dr. Towne also was active in civic affairs, being a member of the Rotary club, of which he was a past president, and a former director in the Bismarck Association of Commerce.
Immediately upon receipt of word of Dr. Towne's death his sisters-in-law, Mrs. C. C. Wattam, Fargo, and Miss Matilda Williams, an instructor at the Moorhead State Teachers College, Moorhead, Minn., came to Bismarck by airplane, and Mr. Wattam went to Jamestown to take charge of the body.
In addition to is wife and children, Dr. Towne leaves one sister, Mrs. Sl. L. Gable of Wagner, S. D., and two brothers, Ward Towne of Arion, Iowa, and Ray Towne of Sterling, Colo.
Arrangements for the funeral were being held up pending Wattam's arrival in Bismarck.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday, February 25, 1936, Page 1.
CRUSHED BY TRUCK UPSET BY TRAIN AT JAMESTOWN DEPOT
Dr. R. S. Towne, Bismarck dentist and a leader in the dental profession in the northwest, died in a Jamestown hospital Monday night from injuries received less than an hour before in an accident at the Jamestown depot of the Northern Pacific railroad. He was 50 years old.
Dr. Towne left Bismarck on the evening train Monday night to attend a convention of the Minnesota Dental association at St. Paul. When the train reached Jamestown he and L. B. Wheadon, also of Bismarck, got off to walk in the fresh air and break the monotony of their journey.
A truck loaded with cream cans had been left standing too near the track nearest the station and was struck by the engine of the branch line train from Oakes which was pulling into the station.
The express truck was catapulted into Dr. Towne, crushing him against the station wall, according to information received here. His chest was badly crushed by the impact. Taken to the Jamestown hospital he died within an hour. He was conscious until the time of his death.
Police magistrate Frank L. Kellogg, acting coroner in the absence of E. D. Willett, and Russell D. Chase, Stutsman county state's attorney, opened an inquest into Dr. Towne's death Tuesday morning. Testimony of Doctors W. W. Wood and P. G. Artz relative to the autopsy was taken.
The inquest was then adjourned until two o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The jurors are E. J. Rhodes, Vernon Gardner and Harry Wolf.
The body will be brought to Bismarck late this afternoon and will lie at the Webb Funeral chapel.
Roy Salem Towne had occupied an enviable position in the professional, civic and business life of Bismarck for more than 25 years.
Born at Denison, Iowa, May 1, 1885, he was the son of Salem H. and Agnes Calderwood Towne. His father was a native of Whiteside county, Illinois, the son of one of Illinois' first pioneer families. His mother was born in Paisley, Scotland.
Reared and educated in his native county, Dr. Towne's father, following in the footsteps of his own father, moved west with civilization, taking a homestead in Crawford county, Iowa, where he passed the remainder of his life until death came in 1925.
Dr. Towne's father was a Civil war veteran. He enlisted with Company C., 75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served through many engagements, the major ones being the battles of Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain.
Dr. Towne received his primary education in the rural schools of Crawford county and for two years was a student in the Denison Normal college at Denison from which he was graduated in 1904.
For three years Dr. Towne attended the University of Iowa college of dentistry from which he was graduated in June, 1907, with a degree of doctor of dental surgery. At the university he was affiliated with Sigma Nu social fraternity and Delta Sigma Delta, dental fraternity.
Feeling the urge to go westward, like his father and grandfather before him, the young dentist came to North Dakota in 1907, stopping first at Jamestown where he took care of the business of another practitioner for several months. From Jamestown he went to Linton, where he opened a dental office, and a little later he took up the practice of his profession at Washburn.
It was while he was practicing at Washburn that Dr. Towne met Alice Jenny Williams, daughter of General E. A. Williams, Bismarck pioneer.
In 1910 he came to Bismarck and opened a dental office and on Nov. 1, 1911, he was married to Miss Williams. His widow and two children survive. They are Roy Salem, Jr., 10, and Matilda Alice, 8.
A little later he associated himself with the late Drs. G. A. Rawlings and S. B. Toney in the dental clinic of Rawlings, Towne and Toney. Both of his early partners preceded him in death, although it was continued under the name of the Rawlings and Towne dental clinic after the former's death several years ago.
Upon the death of Dr. Rawlings the clinic was reorganized with Dr. Towne as its head and Drs. F. C. Stucke and R. F. Krause as associates.
Dr. Towne also was active in civic affairs, being a member of the Rotary club, of which he was a past president, and a former director in the Bismarck Association of Commerce.
Immediately upon receipt of word of Dr. Towne's death his sisters-in-law, Mrs. C. C. Wattam, Fargo, and Miss Matilda Williams, an instructor at the Moorhead State Teachers College, Moorhead, Minn., came to Bismarck by airplane, and Mr. Wattam went to Jamestown to take charge of the body.
In addition to is wife and children, Dr. Towne leaves one sister, Mrs. Sl. L. Gable of Wagner, S. D., and two brothers, Ward Towne of Arion, Iowa, and Ray Towne of Sterling, Colo.
Arrangements for the funeral were being held up pending Wattam's arrival in Bismarck.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday, February 25, 1936, Page 1.
Dr. R. S. Towne Accidentally Killed
CRUSHED BY TRUCK UPSET BY TRAIN AT JAMESTOWN DEPOT
Dr. R. S. Towne, Bismarck dentist and a leader in the dental profession in the northwest, died in a Jamestown hospital Monday night from injuries received less than an hour before in an accident at the Jamestown depot of the Northern Pacific railroad. He was 50 years old.
Dr. Towne left Bismarck on the evening train Monday night to attend a convention of the Minnesota Dental association at St. Paul. When the train reached Jamestown he and L. B. Wheadon, also of Bismarck, got off to walk in the fresh air and break the monotony of their journey.
A truck loaded with cream cans had been left standing too near the track nearest the station and was struck by the engine of the branch line train from Oakes which was pulling into the station.
The express truck was catapulted into Dr. Towne, crushing him against the station wall, according to information received here. His chest was badly crushed by the impact. Taken to the Jamestown hospital he died within an hour. He was conscious until the time of his death.
Police magistrate Frank L. Kellogg, acting coroner in the absence of E. D. Willett, and Russell D. Chase, Stutsman county state's attorney, opened an inquest into Dr. Towne's death Tuesday morning. Testimony of Doctors W. W. Wood and P. G. Artz relative to the autopsy was taken.
The inquest was then adjourned until two o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The jurors are E. J. Rhodes, Vernon Gardner and Harry Wolf.
The body will be brought to Bismarck late this afternoon and will lie at the Webb Funeral chapel.
Roy Salem Towne had occupied an enviable position in the professional, civic and business life of Bismarck for more than 25 years.
Born at Denison, Iowa, May 1, 1885, he was the son of Salem H. and Agnes Calderwood Towne. His father was a native of Whiteside county, Illinois, the son of one of Illinois' first pioneer families. His mother was born in Paisley, Scotland.
Reared and educated in his native county, Dr. Towne's father, following in the footsteps of his own father, moved west with civilization, taking a homestead in Crawford county, Iowa, where he passed the remainder of his life until death came in 1925.
Dr. Towne's father was a Civil war veteran. He enlisted with Company C., 75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served through many engagements, the major ones being the battles of Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain.
Dr. Towne received his primary education in the rural schools of Crawford county and for two years was a student in the Denison Normal college at Denison from which he was graduated in 1904.
For three years Dr. Towne attended the University of Iowa college of dentistry from which he was graduated in June, 1907, with a degree of doctor of dental surgery. At the university he was affiliated with Sigma Nu social fraternity and Delta Sigma Delta, dental fraternity.
Feeling the urge to go westward, like his father and grandfather before him, the young dentist came to North Dakota in 1907, stopping first at Jamestown where he took care of the business of another practitioner for several months. From Jamestown he went to Linton, where he opened a dental office, and a little later he took up the practice of his profession at Washburn.
It was while he was practicing at Washburn that Dr. Towne met Alice Jenny Williams, daughter of General E. A. Williams, Bismarck pioneer.
In 1910 he came to Bismarck and opened a dental office and on Nov. 1, 1911, he was married to Miss Williams. His widow and two children survive. They are Roy Salem, Jr., 10, and Matilda Alice, 8.
A little later he associated himself with the late Drs. G. A. Rawlings and S. B. Toney in the dental clinic of Rawlings, Towne and Toney. Both of his early partners preceded him in death, although it was continued under the name of the Rawlings and Towne dental clinic after the former's death several years ago.
Upon the death of Dr. Rawlings the clinic was reorganized with Dr. Towne as its head and Drs. F. C. Stucke and R. F. Krause as associates.
Dr. Towne also was active in civic affairs, being a member of the Rotary club, of which he was a past president, and a former director in the Bismarck Association of Commerce.
Immediately upon receipt of word of Dr. Towne's death his sisters-in-law, Mrs. C. C. Wattam, Fargo, and Miss Matilda Williams, an instructor at the Moorhead State Teachers College, Moorhead, Minn., came to Bismarck by airplane, and Mr. Wattam went to Jamestown to take charge of the body.
In addition to is wife and children, Dr. Towne leaves one sister, Mrs. Sl. L. Gable of Wagner, S. D., and two brothers, Ward Towne of Arion, Iowa, and Ray Towne of Sterling, Colo.
Arrangements for the funeral were being held up pending Wattam's arrival in Bismarck.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday, February 25, 1936, Page 1.
CRUSHED BY TRUCK UPSET BY TRAIN AT JAMESTOWN DEPOT
Dr. R. S. Towne, Bismarck dentist and a leader in the dental profession in the northwest, died in a Jamestown hospital Monday night from injuries received less than an hour before in an accident at the Jamestown depot of the Northern Pacific railroad. He was 50 years old.
Dr. Towne left Bismarck on the evening train Monday night to attend a convention of the Minnesota Dental association at St. Paul. When the train reached Jamestown he and L. B. Wheadon, also of Bismarck, got off to walk in the fresh air and break the monotony of their journey.
A truck loaded with cream cans had been left standing too near the track nearest the station and was struck by the engine of the branch line train from Oakes which was pulling into the station.
The express truck was catapulted into Dr. Towne, crushing him against the station wall, according to information received here. His chest was badly crushed by the impact. Taken to the Jamestown hospital he died within an hour. He was conscious until the time of his death.
Police magistrate Frank L. Kellogg, acting coroner in the absence of E. D. Willett, and Russell D. Chase, Stutsman county state's attorney, opened an inquest into Dr. Towne's death Tuesday morning. Testimony of Doctors W. W. Wood and P. G. Artz relative to the autopsy was taken.
The inquest was then adjourned until two o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The jurors are E. J. Rhodes, Vernon Gardner and Harry Wolf.
The body will be brought to Bismarck late this afternoon and will lie at the Webb Funeral chapel.
Roy Salem Towne had occupied an enviable position in the professional, civic and business life of Bismarck for more than 25 years.
Born at Denison, Iowa, May 1, 1885, he was the son of Salem H. and Agnes Calderwood Towne. His father was a native of Whiteside county, Illinois, the son of one of Illinois' first pioneer families. His mother was born in Paisley, Scotland.
Reared and educated in his native county, Dr. Towne's father, following in the footsteps of his own father, moved west with civilization, taking a homestead in Crawford county, Iowa, where he passed the remainder of his life until death came in 1925.
Dr. Towne's father was a Civil war veteran. He enlisted with Company C., 75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served through many engagements, the major ones being the battles of Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain.
Dr. Towne received his primary education in the rural schools of Crawford county and for two years was a student in the Denison Normal college at Denison from which he was graduated in 1904.
For three years Dr. Towne attended the University of Iowa college of dentistry from which he was graduated in June, 1907, with a degree of doctor of dental surgery. At the university he was affiliated with Sigma Nu social fraternity and Delta Sigma Delta, dental fraternity.
Feeling the urge to go westward, like his father and grandfather before him, the young dentist came to North Dakota in 1907, stopping first at Jamestown where he took care of the business of another practitioner for several months. From Jamestown he went to Linton, where he opened a dental office, and a little later he took up the practice of his profession at Washburn.
It was while he was practicing at Washburn that Dr. Towne met Alice Jenny Williams, daughter of General E. A. Williams, Bismarck pioneer.
In 1910 he came to Bismarck and opened a dental office and on Nov. 1, 1911, he was married to Miss Williams. His widow and two children survive. They are Roy Salem, Jr., 10, and Matilda Alice, 8.
A little later he associated himself with the late Drs. G. A. Rawlings and S. B. Toney in the dental clinic of Rawlings, Towne and Toney. Both of his early partners preceded him in death, although it was continued under the name of the Rawlings and Towne dental clinic after the former's death several years ago.
Upon the death of Dr. Rawlings the clinic was reorganized with Dr. Towne as its head and Drs. F. C. Stucke and R. F. Krause as associates.
Dr. Towne also was active in civic affairs, being a member of the Rotary club, of which he was a past president, and a former director in the Bismarck Association of Commerce.
Immediately upon receipt of word of Dr. Towne's death his sisters-in-law, Mrs. C. C. Wattam, Fargo, and Miss Matilda Williams, an instructor at the Moorhead State Teachers College, Moorhead, Minn., came to Bismarck by airplane, and Mr. Wattam went to Jamestown to take charge of the body.
In addition to is wife and children, Dr. Towne leaves one sister, Mrs. Sl. L. Gable of Wagner, S. D., and two brothers, Ward Towne of Arion, Iowa, and Ray Towne of Sterling, Colo.
Arrangements for the funeral were being held up pending Wattam's arrival in Bismarck.
**The Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday, February 25, 1936, Page 1.
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