Grace, Bert 1882 – 1909

GRACE

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Date: 10/1/2019 at 11:40:36

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Dec. 28, 1909, 3, C7

Bert Grace, Interurban Conductor,
Dies Instantly In Wreck at Perry.
Bert Grace, aged twenty-six, a veteran of the Spanish-American war and Philippine insurrection, was killed at Perry while acting as a freight conductor for the interurban
railroad. His train was an the crossing of the Minneapolis and St, Louis railroad, the last car, in which Grace was riding, being directly on the track. The railroad engine backed down the track at high speed, colliding with the car, crushing it to splinters and killing Grace instantly and throwing his body some distance. His head was nearly severed from his body.
Grace lived at 2622 Amherst street, Des Moines, and leaves a wife and two children. Many Spanish war veterans attended his funeral.
A boy of fifteen, he enlisted in the Fifty-first Iowa when the Spanish war broke out and went with his regiment to the Philippines. He was a trumpeter and did valiant service, being slightly wounded in a skirmish with the insurgents.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Glendale Cemetery and was born in 1882.