"Mr. Ed Beebe, father of Mrs. J.H. Williams, was buried at Mitchell Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Beebe was an engineer on the Milwaukee, pulling a passenger train from Murdo to Chamberlain. While making his run Friday evening of last week [June 26, 1914], he was injured in a way that caused his death. The train was just leaving Oacoma for Chamberlain at the end of the run, when Mr. Beebe stepped down on the foot board and leaned out to look at something ahead on the boiler. It is not known whether he struck something or whether he lost his hold and fell. At any rate he was thrown from the train and was injured on the head. He was picked up and taken immediately to the sanitarium at Chamberlain, where everything possible was done to relieve his condition, but he never regained consciousness and died Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Williams were with a camping party at Hisega when the message reached them telling of the accident. They started at once for Chamberlain by way of Rapid City, but were unable to reach there until Sunday evening. Mrs. Williams was an only child and was unusually devoted to her father.
Mr. Beebe was fifty-two years of age, and had been in the railroad service since a boy. Conductor Mayo, who was in charge of the train when the accident occurred, says that it will probably never be known just how it happened. Mr. Beebe was a favorite in the railroad circles and among his acquaintances, and his sudden death will be keenly felt."
"Mr. Ed Beebe, father of Mrs. J.H. Williams, was buried at Mitchell Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Beebe was an engineer on the Milwaukee, pulling a passenger train from Murdo to Chamberlain. While making his run Friday evening of last week [June 26, 1914], he was injured in a way that caused his death. The train was just leaving Oacoma for Chamberlain at the end of the run, when Mr. Beebe stepped down on the foot board and leaned out to look at something ahead on the boiler. It is not known whether he struck something or whether he lost his hold and fell. At any rate he was thrown from the train and was injured on the head. He was picked up and taken immediately to the sanitarium at Chamberlain, where everything possible was done to relieve his condition, but he never regained consciousness and died Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Williams were with a camping party at Hisega when the message reached them telling of the accident. They started at once for Chamberlain by way of Rapid City, but were unable to reach there until Sunday evening. Mrs. Williams was an only child and was unusually devoted to her father.
Mr. Beebe was fifty-two years of age, and had been in the railroad service since a boy. Conductor Mayo, who was in charge of the train when the accident occurred, says that it will probably never be known just how it happened. Mr. Beebe was a favorite in the railroad circles and among his acquaintances, and his sudden death will be keenly felt."
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