Ionia County MI Archives News.....Sam Coon is Killed November 5, 1907
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Grand Rapids Press November 5, 1907
Was Struck by a Pere Marquette Passenger Train. (Special to The Evening Press.) 
Portland, Mich., Nov. 5.- Sam Coon was stuck and instantly killed by the 10:45
passenger train westbound near the Looking Glass bridge today. Mr. Coon had been
fishing and as the train approached he walked of the bridge and the engineer
supposed he would get off the track. The old man was deaf and did not notice his
danger. Mr. Coon was bout sixty year of age.  

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I did not include the last line of the article as it described his
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