BEVANSEE, Fred Jr.

BEVANSEE, BUTLER, PINK

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Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

The Clinton Herald, Oct. 10, 1913
Page 12

Word was received late Thursday afternoon by relatives of the death of Fred Bevansee, jr., at Houston, Tex. The body was sent to Clinton Thursday. No funeral arrangements have been made as yet nor have any details of his death been received.
Mr. Bevansee was formerly a conductor on the Northwestern railroad and ran out of Clinton for a great many years. He was very well and favorably known in Clinton and especially by the railroad men of this city and on the Northwestern between Clinton and Boone.
Mr. Bevansee was 38 years of age and was born and reared in Clinton. Five years ago he moved his family to Des Moines and a year ago moved to Houston, Tex., where he was in the real estate business. Besides his hosts of friends he leaves to mourn his death his wife and two children, his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bevansee, sr., of Clinton, three sisters, Mrs. T. V. Butler of Chicago, Mrs. J. P. Butler of Clinton and Mrs. W. E. Pink of Clinton, and two brothers, George of Snohomish, Wash., and Andrew of Clinton.

The Clinton Herald, Oct. 11, 1913
Page 8

Further advices from Houston, Texas, from whence came the news of the death of a former Clinton railroad man and Northwestern conductor, Fred Bevensee, are to the effect that Mrs. Bevensee and the children left Houston October 10 to accompany the body to Clinton. They are to arrive in Chicago Sunday morning at 10:15 o'clock in Clinton Sunday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock. Mr. Bevensee was a member of the B. P. O. E. and O. R. C.

The Clinton Herald, Oct. 13, 1913
Page 5

Funeral services for the late Fred C. Bevensee will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bevensee, 1220 Liberty street. Rev. George Rogers of the Baptist church is to officiate at the services and interment is to take place in Springdale cemetery. The B. P. O. E. of which he was a member will have charge of the services at the grave.
Following is an account of the death of Mr. Bevensee from the Houston papers:
Fred C. Bevensee, aged 40 years, west end yard conductor in the Texan & New Orleans railroad yards at Houston, was instantly killed about 6:45 o'clock Thursday morning when he was crushed between two freight cars. The accident occurred on track No. 6 directly above the Montgomery avenue tunnal.
During an inquest held at the place of the accident by Justice of the Peace John H. Crocker a few minutes later it developed that Mr. Bevensee, assisted by J. W. Williams, a switchman, was "picking up" a number of cars on track No. 6 and had backed the locomotive on the track from the west. They found that the draw bar had been pulled from one of the cars and had just drawn them far enough apart, about three feet, to couple them with a chain.
Mr. Bevensee was standing between the two cars and Mr. Williams was stepping, also between them, putting the chain in place when a yard locamotive, known as the new lead, entered the same track from the east and, pushing a line of about thirty-five cars against the cars between which Bevensee and Williams were working. The former was crushed between the end of one of the cars and the grab-iron of the other, causing instant death. Williams, who was in a stooping position, was cleared by the cars and was uninjured. the grab-iron, a five-eighth inch bar, against which Mr. Bevenssee was crushed, was bent until it touched the end of the car.
Mr. Bevensee was a member of the Des Moines lodge of Elks and of the Order of Railway Conductors. His body arrived in Clinton Sunday night and was taken to the home of his parents, 1220 Liberty street, where it may be viewed by friends.

The Clinton Herald, Oct. 13, 1913
Page 6

Public funeral services for the late Fred Bevensee are to be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the First Baptist church.