Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, John 1914
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Unidentified Publication, 1914

Death Claims Railroad Victim

John Gardner Passed Away At City Hospital About Five O’clock Tuesday.

Pere Marquette Claim Agent in Ionia - First Telegrams Fail to Reach Frank
Gardner at His Home in Chicago - Funeral Friday.

Claim Agent Gillett of the Pere Marquette was in the city today to examine into
the circumstances surrounding the accident which resulted in the death of John
Gardner, who died about 5 o’clock last night in the city hospital.  Whether or
not an inquest would be held had not been determined.

Telegrams sent last night in an effort to locate Frank Gardner, of Chicago,
failed to reach him and others were dispatched this morning.  It was expected
that he would be found during the day and that the funeral will be held Friday
at an hour to be set.

Mr. Gardner lingered for about three hours after being struck by the Pere
Marquette switch engine Tuesday afternoon at about 2 o’clock but never rallied
from the shock attendant upon the terrible injuries which he received.  Efforts
toward relief were confined to easing his pain and stimulating his heart action
until he might rally sufficiently to permit a further amputation of his crushed
leg.  However, these efforts were in vain.

Mr. Gardner during his lifetime met with considerable misfortune.  He became
lame early in life as a result of an attack of rheumatism.  Later he was kicked
by a horse and injured so that his life was despaired of and a few years ago a
mad dog attacked him and bit him necessitating a trip to Ann Arbor to take the
Pasteur treatment.  In spite of all his hard luck he has been an energetic and
active man, a hard worker and a valuable citizen.

At the time of the accident he was returning from a car of coal which he was
unloading under contract for the school board.  The question arose as to whether
he would come within the operation of the workmen’s compensation law and whether
the school district would be responsible for the payment of the possible claim.
 However, it is not believed by the members of the school board that the law
would apply in Mr. Gardner’s case as he was unloading the coal on contract and
would not be an employee of the school district as an employee.

Final funeral arrangements will be completed upon receipt of word from his son
Frank in Chicago.


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