Jackson-Lawrence-Monroe County IN Archives Obituaries.....Utterback, Louis A. November 23, 1933
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The Bedford Daily Times - Death Notice, pub. Thursday, Nov 23, 1933

LOU UTTERBACK TRAIN VICTIM INSTANTLY KILLED IN McDOEL YARDS AT BLOOMINGTON TODAY
RITES SATURDAY	
Body Will Be Interred In Green Hill Cemetery In Bedford Following Services At Home
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	Louis A. Utterback, 66 years old, section foreman on the Monon railroad with
residence at 212 South Madison street, Bloomington, was killed instantly at 7:20
o’clock this morning in the south end of McDoel Yards at Bloomington, where he
was directing operations of a section gang engaged in track repair work.
	A switch engine attached to a single freight car and caboose passed over his
body, severing both legs below the knee and inflicting head injuries.
	C. K. Koontz, southern division roadmaster, who hurried to Bloomington on
learning of the accident, to investigate, told The Times this afternoon that the
section crew had removed a broken rail from one of the tracks in the yard,
loaded it on a push cart and were taking it to a pile of discarded rails. Mr.
Utterback was following the push cart and was walking in the center of track
fifteen, adjoining the track over which the push cart was being operated with
his back to the approaching engine.
	Members of the section crew attempted to warn Mr. Utterback of the approach of
the switch engine, which was backing south on track fifteen, but were unable to
make him comprehend their signals and he was struck by the engine just as he was
stepping across one of the rails in the track. His body was dragged three or
four hundred feet, Mr. Koontz was advised, before members of the engine crew
became aware of the accident and the engineer stopped the engine.
	Following the accident the Monroe county coroner was notified and said he would
open an inquest at the Day Funeral Home at 4 o’clock this afternoon, where the
body was removed for burial preparation.
	Funeral services will be held at the residence at 1:30 o’clock Saturday
afternoon and the body will be brought to Bedford for burial in the Green Hill
cemetery.
	Mr. Utterback is survived by the widow, Mrs. Ella Utterback and one son, Roy,
at home.
	The family lived in Bedford for a number of years and Mr. Utterback was
employed here as a Monon section foreman. He accepted a position with the
Illinois Central Railroad Company in 1913 and removed from Bedford, returning to
the employe of the Monon in 1922, since which time he has resided in
Bloomington. He has several relatives residing in Bedford.


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Son of Lemuel and Susannah Caroline Thompson

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