LOUDER, James Monroe 'Roe' 1886 - 1913

LOUDER, JOHNSON, MAGDALRAU, TEETER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/21/2011 at 20:32:47

"The Fairfield Daily Journal"
Saturday, August 2, 1913
Page 2, Column 2

Roe LOUDER formerly of Fairfield, was fatally shocked in Davenport yesterday afternoon while at his work as Western Union telegraph lineman. Details of the accident are meager.

Whie at his work as lineman Mr. LOUDER came in contact with a wire from a high voltage electric line and was so severely injured that recovery was impossible. He was removed to the Moline hospital where he died at 9:35, p.m.

Roe LOUDER who would have been 26 years old on September 8th, was the youngest son of Mrs. Matilda LOUDER who resides some five miles north of the city. He is also survived by two brothers, Albert and Roy, and by four sisters. The sisters are: Mrs. August JOHNSON of Fairfield, Mrs. Carl MAGDEFRAU of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. William TEETER and Miss Vinnie LOUDER.

The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Antioch church, in charge of Rev. Charles Cook.

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"The Fairfield Daily Journal:
Tuesday, August 5, 1913
Page 3, Column 2

J. M. LOUDER RECEIVED VERY HEAVY CURRENT

The following Davenport account of the death of J. M. LOUDER of Moline will be read with interest:

J. M. LOUDER, a lineman employed by the Central Union Telephone Co. in Moline, died Friday evening at the Moline city hospital as a result of having a 2,200 volt electric current pass through his body, while working near the top of a telephone pole at Nineteenth street and Sixth avenue. The accident occurred about 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and the man passed away at 9 o'clock in the evening.

At an inquest conducted Saturday morning by Coroner R. C. J. Meyer, a verdict was returned that LOUDER came to his death by a shock from coming in contact with a telephone wire and a high tension primary power wire of 2,200 volts.

Whether or not the power wire was properly insulated was not brought out at the inquest. The power wire was beneath the telephone wires, and in order to reach the latter, the man had to climb up through the power wires. His right hand was almost entirely burned off and his right leg was burned almost to the bone from the knee down.

The man was rushed to the hospital and Dr. Wessel and Dr. Arp attended him, but his burns and the shock were so severe that they were unable to do a thing for him. Although he was unconscious after the time of the accident up to the time he died, it is said he apparently suffered intense agony.

LOUDER leaves a mother at Fairfield, Ia., where he lived until recently when he came to Moline.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: James was originally buried in Antioch Cemetery. In 1915 his mother purchased a lot at Evergreen Cemetery and had James and his father Jonathan disinterred from Antioch and moved to Evergreen, Lot SDiv.2-004.