OBITUARY: Mrs. Christi Ingebretsen, c1802-1902, Mitchell County, Iowa


KILLED BY THE CARS.


                      Old  Mrs. C. Ingebretsen
                      Run Over by Central Train
                 A Backing Gravel Train Struck the Old
                  Lady Just as She Reached the Track
                    at the Foot of Seventh Street
  

Last Wednesday was the fatal day for old Mrs. Christi Ingebretson who met
her death by being run over by an Illinois Central gravel train at the
foot of Seventh Street.

The train was backing at the time and as it neared the crossing the
trainmen noticed the old lady walk onto the track.  They shouted in a
loud voice but she did not seem to hear them, and an instant later
she was being dragged to her death.  She was struck at a point just
east of the center of the road and dragged up the track and dropped
inside the side-walk a distance of four or five rods from where she
went unto the track.  The body was terribly mangled and death must have
been instantaneous.

It has been Mrs. Ingebretson's custom to appear before the board of
supervisors at their regular sessions to receive her allowance as a
dependent and it was no doubt for this purpose that she started uptown
yesterday morning.  She has a son, Simon, in the insane hospital at
Independence and a daughter supposed to be living in one of the western
states.  Another son returned to Norway several years ago, but has not
been heard of for many years, and it is not known that he lives.

The old lady was reported to be about one hundred years old.  She lived
alone in a little house next to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Simon Ingebretson
south of town.

The body was taken to O. E. Gallup's undertaking rooms where the inquest
will be held to-day in order to allow the train crew to be present.

It is altogether likely that no blame will be attached to the railroad
co., as the trainmen did all they could to avoid the accident, but as
the old lady was quite deaf she failed to hear the warning and met her
death as above related.

(Sept. 3, 1902)



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