Ora Dickinson (1906)
DICKINSON, DICKISON, ROBY
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 12/14/2009 at 13:08:11
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, August 31, 1906
Page 1, Column 6WAS KILLED BY TRAIN
Ora Dickison, of Winterset, Killed Near Slater, Iowa.
HE WAS A DEAF AND DUMB MAN
Dickison Was Walking Along the Tracks Near Slater Towards Des Moines. He Was Deaf and Dumb and Unable to Hear the Noise of the Approaching Train. He Was Instantly Killed.
Ora Dickison, a deaf and dumb young man of this city, and son of Dr Chester Dickison, was run down by a northwestern train near Slater, Iowa, Saturday evening, August 25, 1906, and instantly killed.
It seems that Dickison had been in South Dakota visiting a brother and was returning home. Sunday's Register and Leader gives the following account:
“Unable to hear the approaching Northwestern train because he was deaf and dumb, an unknown young man was struck and instantly killed a half mile north of Slater about seven o'clock last evening. The train was stopped as quickly as possible after the man was struck and the crew gathered together the remains and took the body to Slater.
It was learned that he had stopped at Crocker and by writing on a scrap of paper inquired of the station agent the distance to Des Moines. He left Crocker apparently with the intention to walk to Des Moines. The train which reaches Des Moines at 7:30 was late and was coming at a high speed just north of Slater when the engineer noticed the man ahead of him walking on the track. He whistled loudly for him to get off the track but no attention was paid by the man. When the train struck him his body was thrown into the air by the cowcatcher and some distance from the track. Apparently he was instantly killed.”
Dickison's remains were shipped to this city, arriving here Tuesday evening. The funeral was conducted from the M. E. church Wednesday afternoon.
_______________________Transcriber's note: Transcribed as published, surname per gravestone is "Dickinson".
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