Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
April 5, 1906
MAIL POUCH CAUSES WRECK
One Killed and Eleven Injured in Iowa Railroad Accident
A fast east-bound passenger train on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad was partly wrecked at Lockridge by a misplaced
switch. The dining car, a sleeping car, and an observation car
broke away from the rest of the train and dashed into the rear
end of a work train on a switch, demolishing the sidetracked cars
and a car occupied by a number of workmen. Swan Bloom of
Burlington, cook of the work train was killed and eleven persons
were severely injured. A mail sack when thrown out struck a
switch post, breaking it and releasing the switch, thus
sidetracking the last three cars of the passenger train.
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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
April 19, 1906
Additional Locals
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Feeney, of Chickasaw, have been called upon the
past week to give up their 18-months-old daughter, who died on
Monday. The cause of her death was measles followed by pneumonia.
The funeral was held from the church in Chickasaw Wednesday at 3
o'clock p.m. and the remains were interred in Greenwood cemetery.
F.W. Stanton, Roy Nafus, E.H. Russell, Henry Reich, J.R. Bentley,
J.B. Bellamy, Andrew Ewald and M.J. Hershbuerg drove to New
Hampton Tuesday to attend a district convention of the Knights of
Pythias. We are told that the rig which the latter six went in
got so heavy after leaving Ionia that the front wheels were
pulled out and the boys borrowed a hay rack of a farmer in which
to complete their journey.
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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
April 26, 1906
The City and Vicinity
Miss Rose McKinley, who had been caring for Mrs. Ed Hall returned
to her home in Waverly Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Feeney, of near Chickasaw, who lost a little
daughter with measles and pneumonia last week, have had another
child very sick with the same disease the past week, and for a
time its position was regarded as critical, but at this writing
it is improving. The mother was also very sick with the same
disease.
[all above submitted by C.J.L. Aug & Oct. 2003]