Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Peterson, Rev. Hans Peter 1911
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Payette Enterprise 9-7-1911
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, September 07, 1911

MINISTER MEETS TRAGIC DEATH

Rev. H. P. Peterson Struck by Engine of No. 18 Wednesday Morning and Instantly 
Killed

Rev. H. P. Peterson, the young minister appointed by the Methodist conference 
to the work on Dead Ox Flat and who just recently came to Payette was struck 
by the engine on No. 18 Wednesday morning of this week and instantly killed. 
Mr. Peterson has been preaching on the Flat on Sundays and of nights has been 
working as baggage man at the depot. It was his duty to hang the mail on the 
crane for No. 18. As there was no witness to his death it is largely a matter 
of conjecture but the supposition is that he hung the mail out for No. 18 and 
as she was a little late probably sat down on the rail to await her arrival 
and falling asleep awakened too late to save himself. The body was found by 
the night operator who after the grain went by and the baggage man and not 
return went out to look for him. He found him lying a few feet from the track 
just north of the mail crane with the right side of his head crushed in.

The young man has been in Payette but a short time but there are a number of 
people living here who knew him in his old home, Maratho?, Iowa, and they all 
speak in the highest of terms of him and during his short residence in Payette 
he made many new friends. He leaves a wife and three children.

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