Two Lose Lives Under Train Wheels

DEMENOPOLOUS

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 4/28/2013 at 08:44:34

The Grinnell (IA) Herald
Sept. 25, 1914

TWO LOSE LIVES
UNDER TRAIN WHEELS
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Body of Unknown Man Is Found
Thursday Morning Short Dis-
tance West of Turner.
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HAD BEEN STRUCK BY
A WESTBOUND TRAIN
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Greek Member of Rail Laying Crew
Is Killed Near Brooklyn
by No. 5.
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Two lives have been lost this week under the wheels of Rock Island trains. Yesterday morning the body of an unknown man was discovered a short distance west of Turner. The proper officials were notified and the body was removed to Newton. No word had reached here this morning that the victim had been identified. The man had evidently been struck by a west bound train and dragged for some distance. He was apparently a laboring man of middle age.

On Tuesday morning Nicholas Demenopolous, one of the rail laying crew which is at work in the vicinity of Brooklyn, was struck by No. 5, the morning west bound passenger train, and instantly killed. The construction camp was one and a half miles west of Brooklyn. Demenopolous had started across the track to fill a bucket of water from Little Bear Creek and jumped from the boarding car onto the main track just in time to be hit by the engine of No. 5. He probably never knew what hit him. He was about 37 years of age and had come to the United States from Greece three years ago. He leaves a wife and six small children all in his native country.