Daniel J. CARDER

CARDER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/27/2011 at 19:41:47

Daniel J. Carder
28 March 1870 -- September 7, 1898

Killed by the Cars
Another victim of the remorseless wheels in Alton

A most horrible tragedy occurred in the C. & N. W. yards at this place, between the hours of four and five o'clock Wednesday morning. While one of the freight crews of a special going west, were switching, D. Carder, a brakeman, was run over and killed. The last seen of him before the accident was when he signaled to the fireman to back up and went between the cars to make a coupling. A fellow brakeman of the same crew noticed the light was gone and went in search of Carder. He was found alongside of the track with his head and shoulders almost severed from the rest of his body, the cars having passed over his stomach and abdomen. He was in an unconscious condition when found, and the awful agony and excruciating pains which he must have suffered will never be known to mortal man. In his hand he grasped his lantern but the light had gone out, and the light of his life was also fast ebbing. As near as can be learned the accident happened at 4:44 o'clock. He was at once removed to the depot and at 5:15 life was extinct. The remains were sent to Eagle Grove for burial. The deceased was a single man twenty-eight years of age, and lived at Eagle Grove where his parents and other members of the family resided.

Alton Democrat -- Alton, Iowa
Saturday, September 10, 1898