Hugh BROCK

BROCK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/14/2014 at 17:51:47

August 3, 1888 ---- March 27, 1937

TRAIN CRUSHES CLARION MAN

Hugh Brock Falls Under Engine at Tennant, Is Killed.

Hugh Brock, about 50, Clarion, Chicago and Great Western, railroad conductor, was killed Saturday afternoon at Tennant. He was attempting to climb on the front of a moving engine, when he fell under the locomotive and was killed. His body was badly mangled. Surviving Brock are his widow of Clarion, and.one son, Berle of Washington. The body was returned to Clarion for burial.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
March 29, 1937

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[actually buried in Harlington Cemetery, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa]