Rev. William Dwight Elwell (1845-1910)

ELWELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/4/2017 at 16:35:53

From Nevada Representative June 7, 1910 (front page)

REV. W. D. ELWELL KILLED

Well Known Prohibitionist Worker Hit by Northwestern.

Rev. W. D. Elwell of Ames, one of the best known workers in the state for the third-party Prohibition organization and for the temperance cause generally, was hit by the Northwestern express No. 11 Sunday evening near LaMoille and so injured that he died not long after. It speaks that in the course of his work he had spoken that day at Marshalltown, and there being no local train west Sunday afternoon, he had started to walk out to LaMoille, where he had an evening appointment. He took the Northwestern track, and when the last express west came along he failed to get out of its way. He was picked up by the train and carried to State Center, whence he was taken back on the later train to the hospital at Marshalltown, where he died. Mr. Elwell was a man of highest esteem and personal worth, well into his 60s for age, was most agreeable to meet and most zealous in he work in which he was engaged. He leaves no children, but he is survived by an invalid wife at the family home in Ames.