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the | DOUBLEwas | George Monroe and Wife Run Downiurt. ntedthe I Just as. we go to press we learn of axndiwerm tondellakenYouthreeBurlingtonDitry,homFrie for lt;and the Kinlata I accident that occurred near Old Monroe Wednesday evening oh the Burlington in which two persons lost their lives. George Monroe, the sec-«• ctlon foreman at Firma, and his wife you had been to Old Monroe to buy some quj| groceries and were returnina home ona hand car, when they were hit by the fast train No. 15 and both were\instantly killed. The accidenthel| whc It aTriiSwastead P60**1 about h):15 o’clock, te re- train was stopped and theader bodies taken to Old Monroe. An tn-y on quest was held by Coroner Arnold of Rov- J St. Charles and a verdict of accidental death was rendered. It developed sther I at the Inquest that the train had no the headlight and this Is given as a rea-Yel- son why Monroe failed to see hisitoo late. He wasming attempting to make the station at ikaid Firma when he was struck. Sixfatherless andmotherless by the accident. j
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Troy Free Press
Troy, Missouri, US
Fri, Sep 20, 1912
Page 8
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