Death in a Storm-Peter Delaney-1895

DELANEY, CRAFT, DRISCOLL, GREGOIRE

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 3/6/2020 at 20:17:50

Cascade Pioneer, Cascade, Iowa, Friday, Morning, January 25, 1895
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DEATH IN THE STORM
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Peter Delaney Meets His Fate While on
His Way from Fillmore to the
Residence of M. J.
Gordon
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Peter Delaney, a farm hand in the employ of Michael Gordon, was found dead on the road half way between Fillmore and Mr. Gordon’s residence Tuesday morning, and was probably frozen to death. Delany left Fillmore at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon and was not seen again until his dead and frozen body was found on the roadside. The distance from Fillmore to Mr. Gordon’s is not much more than two miles, and where the luckless man put in the several hours of daylight, during which he could easily have reached his destination, is a mystery, unless the theory is correct that he was under the influence of liquor and becoming exhausted by the violent storm, laid down and was soon wrapped in that eternal stupor from which there is no awakening.

Of the deceased there is little known, except that he is a cousin of Martin Delaney, of Pleasant Grove, and has worked at various places in Whitewater Township. He was about 60 years old and unmarried. On Tuesday Coroner Gregoire held an inquest and summoned the following jurors: John Driscoll. Dennis Driscoll and George Craft, who returned a verdict in accordance with facts related, that deceased came to death by freezing.

The body was removed to Dubuque where internment was made.