CATHERINE "KATE" DOUD

DOWD, QUINLIN, DOUD, SEELY, CLOVERDALE, RHODES

Posted By: Mary Lanigan (email)
Date: 4/20/2015 at 11:41:16

Birth: unknown
Death: May 25, 1910

Ottumwa tri-weekly courier, May 28, 1910

Mrs. ANN QUINLAN AND MRS KATE DOUD VICTIMS OF "Q SWITCH ENGINE WHILE WAITING TO CROSS IOWA AVENUE. ELDER WOMAN KILLED INSTANTLY, WHILE COMPANION HAD ARM AND LIMB SEVERED DYING TWO HOURS LATER.

Stricken down by a Burlington switch engine while waiting to cross the tracks at Iowa avenue crossing last night about 9:30, two residents of the east end paid toll to the grim reaper with their lives and two families with countless friends, mourn today. *Mrs. Ann Quinlan, almost 73 years of age, and Mrs. Katherine Doud,(Born Wisconsin) (buried in Oskaloosa) about 50 years old, met a tragic death beneath the wheels of the south side switch engine No. 1438, of the Burlington, In charge of Engineer P. Hahn and Foreman C. I. Robinson. Death was instantaneous in the case of the elder woman, while the latter lingered for two hours until death relieved her sufferings. She died at the hospital about 11:30. This completed a death toll of five persons since Tuesday in East Ottumwa. The tragic accident of John Seely Tuesday noon in an elevator at the Morrell plant and that of the two men, J. Cloverdale and Frank Rhodes yesterday.