CAREY, Dallast F. 1888 - 1950

CAREY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/14/2007 at 22:48:42

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Friday, September 8, 1950
Front Page, Column 5

RAIL EMPLOYE DIES SUDDENLY ALONG TRACKS

Coroner Jack Raymond said today there will be no inquest in the death of a railroad employe who dropped dead yesterday afternoon while working along the C. B. & Q. right-of-way about a mile west of Fairfield.

The coroner said this morning efforts are being made to contact members of his family but at 11 a.m. no contact had been made.

The victim is Dallast F. CAREY, 62, who has listed several addresses since he arrived in this community some weeks ago with the extra gang.

He left the gang the latter part of August, and after serving time in the Ottumwa jail, he returned to the extra gang last Wednesday and started working again. He was working along the right-of-way yesterday afternoon and suddenly toppled over, according to witnesses.

The coroner and county officers were called to the scene, but the coroner said there will be no inquest. He said death came as a result of natural causes.

Members of the work gang said CAREY had previously told them he had been a patient in the veterans hospital at Leavenworth, Kansas. That fact was confirmed by officers this morning, and they were also told by hospital attendants that records shoed his mother lives at Washington, D. C. But so far they haven't been able to contact the mother or other relatives.

When he applied for work on the railroad gang, he gave his home address as Kansas City.

On August 31 he was arrested by local police and arraigned in justice of the peace court for intoxication. At that time he told officers his home was at Frederick, Maryland.

He also said at that time he was quitting the railroad gang and leaving the state. He apparently got as far as Ottumwa where he was taken into custody. After being released from jail there he returned to work with the railroad gang.

The body is at the Hoskins funeral home where last rites are pending.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Saturday, September 9, 1950
Page Seven, Column 5

Graveside Services For Railroad Worker Held

Graveside services were held in Evergreen cemetery this afternoon for Dallast F. CAREY, 62, member of a railroad extra gang who dropped dead while working along the right-of-way west of Fairfield on Thursday.

County Coroner Jack Raymond said death was due to natural causes. Raymond succeeded in locating the dead man's mother in Maryland, but she was unable to claim the body.

CAREY's home was listed as Frederick, Maryland.

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Note: Buried in Lot SDof01-002, with no gravestone. He was a son of Lucy CAREY.