Two Delmar Men Killed

SHARP, BERRY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/1/2011 at 18:46:09

Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, January 28, 1921

TWO DELMAR MEN KILLED

Steve Sharp and Tom Berry, two section men living at Delmar, were both instantly killed by an eastbound passenger train on the Milwaukee Wednesday morning at 11:30. The men were at work on the track, a quarter of a mile west of Riggs, when a westbound freight came along. At the same time the east bound passenger was also near, but the men did not see it and as the stepped out of the way of the freight they stepped over on the other track which held the fast passenger. The engine struck them squarely and later it was found that one of the men was hurled sixty feet upon the right-of-way. Evidently the fireman and engineer on the passenger were looking at the freight as they passed it, for they did not know they had hit anybody until they pulled into Green Island station when they saw one of the men’s coats hanging on the pilot. Sharp has a wife and child left, while Berry’s wife is dead.