Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bluemle, Frederick January 24, 1889
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Ionia Sentinel-Thurs. Jan. 31, 1899

SHOCKING ACCIDENT
AN EASTON FARMER INSTANTLY KILLED BY A PASSENGER TRAIN
Frederick Bluemle's Last Walk on the D. L. & N. Track-Coroner Williams and a Jury
Consider the Fatal Accident and Adjourn to Monday.

Frederick Bluemle, a farmer living in the town of Easton, a short distance north of
the Stanton Junction, was struck by the engine on the passenger train due here from Big

Rapids at 10:45 Thursday, and instantly killed. He was thrown from the track into
the ditch and was struck by some part of the engine, behind the left ear, the blow fracturing
the skull and causing instant death. Engineer Jerry McCarty, one of the most careful men on
the road, was running the engine and no blame can possibly attach to him.

Mr. Bluemie left his home a short time before the accident happened to go to C. E.
Higby's and was walking on the track or rather on the ties outside the rail. The accident
happened about 300 feet south form Higby's crossing and on a sharp curve where he could not
have been seen by the engineer until close upon him.

The decease is very deaf and has before this had several narrow escapes from being
run over, and was once struck by a train but escaped without serious injury.

The body was left in charge of the brakeman and the train came on to Ionia. Coroner
Plyn Williams was notified and Deputy Sheriff Malone summoned B. B. Hall, T. M. Comstock
and W. W. Hall as a coroner's jury, and with a special furnished by Superintendent T. M.
Fish they left for the scene of the accident. Arriving there the Jury was impanneled and
sworn and viewed the body.

C. E. Higby was sworn as a witness and identified the remains as the body of
Frederick Bluemle, and the inquest was adjourned to meet at Justice Nesbitt's office Monday 
afternoon at 1 o'clock.

The body was brought to the city on the train and taken in charge by G. H. Allured &
Sons.

Frederick Bluemle was 64 years old and has been a resident of Easton for many years.
He was an honest, industrious, hard working man and was highly respected by all who
knew him. He leaves a wife and eleven children, seven girls and four boys, the youngest a
boy 13 years old. Four of the daughters are married, one of them being the wife of Ted
Callow of this city.

The funeral of Frederick Bluemle will be held from the Evangelical church in this
city Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The service will be conducted by the pastor, Rev.
J. G. Haller.

The inquest in the case of the late Frederice Bluemie was concluded Tuesday, the
jury returning a verdict of accidental death, and exhonorating the D. L. & N. Rail Road.
Company and those in charge of the train.

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Highland Park Cem.

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