Andrew Meehan

MEEHAN

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/6/2017 at 09:12:30

1 May 1901 - The Clarence Sun

Miss Jennie Meehan received last Thursday afternoon about 1:30 a dispatch conveying the sad intelligence of the death of her brother, Andrew Meehan, which occurred a few moments before at Belle Plaine. He had leaned too heavily on an iron coping which was insecurely held to a balcony of the Burley house about sixteen feet from the sidewalk, the coping gave away and he fell to the brick pavement below, breaking his neck and crushing his skull, causing instant death. He had just come in from his work for his dinner and went to his room before going to the dining room. In order to speak to some men in front of the hotel he stepped out on the porch and leaned over the railing not noticing his danger. He was a single man, twenty-seven years old and was foreman of a railway construction gang for the Northwestern railway. He was a practical railroad man and well liked by both the road and the men who worked for him. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon from the Catholic church at Mechanicsville, at which place the young man was born and which he had always called home, his aged parents still living there. A large concourse of people paid tribute to his memory by their presence Sunday, testifying to the way he was respected where best known.