William H. Myers d. at abt. age 47

MYERS, CRAWFORD, MIEHE

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/20/2011 at 23:49:43

Last Thursday evening, Mrs. Fred
Miehe, Jr. living a few miles north of
Oelwein, received the sad intelligence
that her father was dead. The event
was very sudden and the news came
as a great shock to her. The funeral
was held Saturday afternoon and was
very largely attended. The Dubuque
Telegraph contained the following account
of his sudden and unexpected
death:
There was a shocking suddenness
about the death of William H. Myers,
an Illinois Central section man near
Peosta Thursday afternoon. With section
foreman John Andrews, he worked
under the hot sun all day pulling
up weeds along the track. A freight
train came along destined to Dubuque
and the men sat down on the bank to
wait until it went by. They speculated
at to how long it would take the
train to go from Cox's crossing, from
which it had just whistled to Center
Grove. Myers guess was a minute
and a half and he pulled out his watch
to time the train. It whistled for the
Center Grove crossing in one minute
and forty seconds but Andrews, whose
guess was two minutes insisted that
the train would not reach the crossing
until twenty seconds later. They
were calculating the distance when
suddenly Myers head fell upon his
shoulders and he was dead. He was
a slender man perhaps six feet five
inches tall but had never before betrayed
any symptoms of heart disease.
Andrews at once carried the news
to Peosta and Coroner Gregoire was
summoned. The jury, P. J. Spillane,
Jno. G. Smead and T. Moore, returned
a verdict of death from an unknown
cause supposed to be heart disease.
Tho dead man was about 47 years
old and was a resident of Peosta
about fifteen years. His second wife
survives him. She was the wife of
Louis Crawford, and was married to
Mr. Myers about three years ago. He
leaves two children, a married daughter
at Oelwein and a son living at
Peosta. He was a member of A. O.
U. W. Loyal, No. 135, under whose
auspices the funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon.

Maynard news ...
George Myers received a telegram from
Peosta Thursday night announcing
the death of his father from heart
disease and he left the same evening
for that place.

Oelwein Register - 16 Aug 1894