Abraham Zurcher (1896)

ZURCHER

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:34

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, July 17, 1896
Page 5, Column 3

FOUND A DEAD MAN

Section Men Find Him Near Earlham, Hit By a Train

On Monday morning, July 6, while the section men were mowing weeds about one mile east of town, Perry Felton discovered a body of a dead man lying south of the track about 30 or 40 feet distant. The section foreman, T. J. Carroll, immediately came to town and informed A. Hasket, Justice of the Peace, who with a number of men went to the place and put the body of the man on the hand car and was taken to S. Hatfield’s undertaking establishment and proceeded to hold an inquest.

Dr. E. S. Day and Dr. Irvin made an examination and said that they found a clot of blood in the left ventricle of the brain, which would fill a tea cup half full. There was no sign of foul play. The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death by being struck or hit by the train causing a hemorrhage in the left ventricle and causing a clot on the brain.

The body was given a respectable burial and was laid to rest in the Earlham cemetery at 7 p. m. the same evening.

Papers were found in his clothing which proves his name to be Abraham Zurcher. – Earlham Echo

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