MAN KILLED IN RAILROAD ACCIDENT

Four Others Injured When Section Car Jumps Track

One man was killed and four others were injured when a section gas car, on which the section crew of the M. & O. north of Blair was returning home last Monday evening, jumped the rails about three miles north of Herman. The two Blair section crews had been helping put in the track that had been washed out four miles west of Tekamah where the engine of a freight train turned over early Sunday morning.

Warren Cope, 60, of Sioux City, who had been visiting in Blair the past week, and who had assisted in the work at Tekamah on Sunday, suffered a bad cut of the right arm and a fractured skull. He died about ten minutes after the accident. He is survived by two sons who are employees at a packing plant in Sioux City.

John Johnson, section foreman, James King, Ed Noyes, Charles Bottorff, James Longor and Eph Gilliam, together with Cope, were riding on the car when the accident occurred. Johnson and Bottorff escaped uninjured. Eph Gilliam suffered a bad break of the leg. Ed Noyes and Longor suffered badly sprained ankles which King was cut and bruised about the body. A gas car on which Hans Schumacher’s section crew was riding was but a short distance behind the first car and the men rendered first aid assistance to the injured men. Cope’s body was taken to Tekamah while the injured men were brought to Blair and given medical attention. All are reported to be getting along nicely according to latest reports.

The gas car was badly wrecked and was towed into Blair Tuesday afternoon.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. News clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~