ARLINGTON MAN IS BURNED TO DEATH BY BOILER STEAM RAY CLARK, 42, DIES WHILE SLEEPING NEAR A DES MOINES FACTORY

Ray Clark, 42, a resident of Arlington, but for 20 years a transient traveler, died Friday in Des Moines hospital of burns he suffered as he slept beside the wall of a factory there.

Clark, the Associated Press reported, alighted from a train there last Thursday night, and evidently decided to get a few hours rest. A short distance above him was the outlet for the factory boilers. Steam was let out of the boiler about midnight, and it scalded Clark about the hands and face.

RITES IN ARLINGTON

The body was returned to Arlington, and funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Adams. The Rev. H. C. VanValkenburgh officiated. Clark was a son of the late Mrs. and Mrs. Martin Clark of Arlington. He is survived by three brothers and five sisters.

#2-23 APR., 1936 - The Enterprise

Funeral services for Ray Clark were held on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. Will Adams of this city, with the Rev. H. C. Van Valkenburgh of the Congregational church in charge. The deceased died on Saturday at Des Moines, Iowa from burns he received from the steam exhaust of a factory. He had been a patient at the Norfolk hospital for about twenty five years, and four weeks ago he left, presumably for this place, but he never arrived here, and the first relatives knew of his whereabouts was when they received notice of his death from burns at Des Moines. Clark, who was 42 years of age, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Clark, and was born here in 1894. He is survived by three brothers, Harvey of Denver, Floyd and Merle of Chicago and five sisters, Mrs. Will Adams of Arlington, Mrs. Victor Christensen of Chicago, Mrs. Ardi Grahm and Mrs. Roy Morse both of Topeka, Kans., and Mrs. George Sweeny of Ravenna. Mrs. Alvin Anderson and Miss Lucy Lawson sang several duets at the services. Relatives from out of town who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Ardi Grahm of Topeka, Kansas, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Masters and son, Richard of Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Winkleman and family of North Bend, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Winkleman and son of Fremont.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file in the Blair Public Library in Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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