Clinton-Jackson County IA Archives News.....Two Delmar Men Killed January 28, 1921
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Maquoketa Excelsior-Record January 28, 1921
Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, January 28, 1921

TWO DELMAR MEN KILLED

Steve Sharp and Tom Berry, two section men living at Delmar, were both 
instantly killed by an eastbound passenger train on the Milwaukee Wednesday 
morning at 11:30. The men were at work on the track, a quarter of a mile west 
of Riggs, when a westbound freight came along. At the same time the east bound 
passenger was also near, but the men did not see it and as the stepped out of 
the way of the freight they stepped over on the other track which held the 
fast passenger. The engine struck them squarely and later it was found that 
one of the men was hurled sixty feet upon the right-of-way. Evidently the 
fireman and engineer on the passenger were looking at the freight as they 
passed it, for they did not know they had hit anybody until they pulled into 
Green Island station when they saw one of the men’s coats hanging on the 
pilot. Sharp has a wife and child left, while Berry’s wife is dead.


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