Mooney, Daniel ( - 1875)

MOONEY

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 6/16/2004 at 18:25:59

KILLED BY THE CARS.

A Jefferson Co. Man in Wapello County.

Whisky – Sleep – Railroad Track.

The Ottumwa Daily Courier of August 20th, has the following particulars of the death a citizen of this county:

Last night, Daniel Mooney, of Perlee, Jefferson county, who had been visiting friends at Happy Hollow and elsewhere, started for this city on foot, to take the train for home, but having been drinking some, and getting very tired, sat down on the side of the railroad, just this side of the bridge over the Des Moines river, where it is supposed he went to sleep, and sat there until he was struck by the express train going west on the C. B. & Q. R. R., about 12 o’clock last night. He was not instantly killed, however, and did not die until after he had been taken to Chillicothe, where he stated to Mr. Bush, the hotel keeper, that “he sat down on the track, but did not hear the train until it struck him.”

John Rowland, of Happy Hollow, testified before the Coroner’s jury that Mooney had been drinking some, but that when he left he appeared to be entirely sober.

C. E. Marks testified that the Conductor of train No. 1 told him that the train struck Mooney and knocked him from the track, about three miles west of Ottumwa.

Dr. Hyatt was called, gave a description of the wounds and testified that the man died from hemorrhage.

The following is the verdict of the Coroner’s Jury:
STATE OF IOWA,
WAPPELO COUNTY.

An inquisition holden at Chillicothe, Wapello county, on the 20th day of August, A.D. 1875, before E. L. Lathrop, Coroner of said county, upon the body of Danial [sic] Mooney, there laying dead by the Jurors whose names are hereto subscribed. The said Jurors upon their oath do say that he came to his death by being struck by train No. 1, on the C.B. & Q. R.R. while sitting by the side of the track, between Caldwell’s crossing and the Des Moines river bridge.

In testimony whereof the said Jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year aforesaid.

Rob’t. M. Gibs,

F. M. Bush,

J. M. Swope.

Attest: E. L. Lathrop, Coroner.

Fairfield Ledger
August 26, 1875.

This has been transcribed for genealogical purposes; I am not related to the subject.