Bert Clay

CLAY

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/7/2017 at 08:39:59

1 April 1901 - The Clarence Sun

Bert Clay, a prominent young farmer of Pleasant Hill, north of Clarence, died last Friday afternoon from the effects of an accident which befell him a week ago Saturday night near Savanna, Ill.

He had been to Anamosa that day on business and boarded a freight train for home, intending to get off at Hale. It is thought that he was asleep when the train passed through Hale and did not awaken until near Savanna. The train was then running at a high speed and in getting off he struck a post or obstruction of some kind, which almost literally crushed him. He lay there unconscious until the next morning, when he was found and sent to his home at Pleasant Hill. His suffering was terrible and he had to be kept under the influence of morphine nearly all the time until death mercifully released him.

The funeral which was largely attended, was held at the Pleasant Hill church on Sunday morning, and interment took place at the Pleasant Hill cemetery. The deceased, who was one of the most popular young men of that neighborhood, was 29 years of age and leaves a wife and two children. He carried $3000 insurance in the M.W.A. and a $1000 accident policy.