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A Terrible Accident
William McGovern and Miss Mary Quinlan Killed by the Cars
Dawson, Nebraska, December 14 – (Special to The Herald) –
William McGovern and Miss Mary Quinlan were struck by “the flyer” at Dawson,
seven miles southeast of here yesterday and instantly killed.
They were driving over the crossing when the train, which
does not stop there, passed through, striking the vehicle and throwing them
both on the track.
The lady was literally torn to pieces, being disemboweled
and mutilated almost beyond recognition.
The gentleman had the tope of his head cut off and was
otherwise disfigured.
The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict that the cause of the
accident was a neglect of proper signals by the trainmen.
Omaha
Herald – December 15, 1888
Dawson
County
Lexington,
Nebraska, December 31. -- To the Editor of the
World Herald:
Replying
to your inquiry under date of 28th inst., concerning
the number of families which have left our county within
the last year, will say that, taking the election returns
as a basis for calculation, Dawson county has not lost
much in population during the trying ordeal through
which we have passed since the beginning of 1894.
In
1893 we polled 2,625 votes, in 1894, 2,328 votes, and
in 1895, 2, 533. True, a number of families have
moved out of Dawson County during the last year, but
I believe that more have come in than have gone out,
and of those who left during the season of 1894, many
have returned, and a large percentage of those who have
not returned will do so as soon as circumstances will
permit. Of my personal acquaintances throughout
the county who went away, some went to Oregon, some
to Missouri and others to Arkansas and Oklahoma, and,
with few exceptions, they have returned and express
themselves happy to be back in Dawson County.
William
McDonald, William McLean, D. Kelley, M. W. Kreitz of
Lexington, who moved to Oregon, and H. R. Stevens of
Cozad are among those who have recently returned, and
many others are like my brother, H. G. Lantz, who moved
with his family to Dade County, Missouri, in October
last, and in less than two months they wrote back that
they regretted having left their Nebraska farm. These
are not isolated cases, but the experience of the parties
named above is the
rule.
Dawson County is all right.
T.
B. Lantz, County Clerk
Omaha
World Herald - January 5, 1896
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