Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
August 31, 1876
Patrick Degan, an old and well-known drayman, of Davenport, for
twenty years past, was killed in that city last Friday morning,
by being crushed beneath engine No. 124 of the Rock Island Road,
while attempting to cross Fifth Street. He was a brother of Mr.
Thos. Degan, of Otter Creek, this county.
[transcribed by K.W., July 2009]