Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McCollum, Cleve 1909
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Ionia Weekly Standard, 16 Jul 1909

Cleve McCollum Meets Tragic Death

Cleve McCollum, a Pere Marquette freight brakeman, and one of the best known 
running out of Ionia, met with a tragic and horrible death in Detroit at an 
early hour Thursday morning.

McCollum had for a long time been on one of the early morning passenger runs 
going north, but a few days ago changed to the through freight run which leaves 
Ionia at 9:30 p.m.

He left on No. 55 on Wednesday night, and before 7 o’clock next morning was a 
corpse in the yard at Detroit.  The train is due to reach Detroit at 6 a.m., 
and when on schedule time, just clears the Wabash flyer leaving.  The only 
details given in “the wire” to Ionia was to the effect that McCollum stepped 
from his train immediately in front of the approaching flyer and was killed 
instantly, being cut in two.

The unfortunate young man’s mother lived in Indiana, and instructions are being 
awaited from her as to disposition of body, which is in morgue at Detroit.

Hazardous as is the practice which led to McCollum’s death, railroad men keep 
right on taking the chance.  Local railroad men are today recalling that Thos. 
Doyle and Bob Bryant, both former Ionians and good railroad men met their 
deaths in identically the same manner.


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