John Ward (?-1898)

WARD, RICHARDSON

Posted By: Alan Nicholson
Date: 3/29/2014 at 21:00:45

Paullina Times, 21 Apr 1898, p. 3

News was received here Sunday morning of the serious injury of John Ward, a brakeman on the C. & N. W. railway. A special car passed through soon afterward carrying his sister from Hawarden to Eagle Grove, near where the accident occurred. Mr. Ward had been thrown from the cars by accident, the car wheels passing over and severing his legs, and he expired in the afternoon of the same day. The railway company kindly gave the relatives and friends the use of a special coach in which to convey the remains to Hawarden, where they were interred on Tuesday. Deceased was well known in town, being popular and very much admired by all. He was married only about four months ago to Miss Ida Richardson, also well known here. The accident was one of the saddest of the many that occur in railway life.