Oakland County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dear, Duane July 1901
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Adrian Daily Telegraph, Mon., July 1, 1901 - pg 1
AWFUL ACCIDENT
Trolley Pole
Oxford, Mich., July 1 - Duane Dear, aged 23, of this place, was horribly 
crushed between  gondola car and a trolley pole on the Oxford and Flint due 
west of here Saturday night, and will die.  Dear was a brakeman on the 
construction train which runs between here and goodrichville, and was climbing 
down a side ladder to open a switch, when he was caught between the car and 
the trolley pole, which, it is claimed, only cleared the track by six inches.  
He was driven through this small space.   His collar bone, ? of his ribs on 
his left side, his hip bone and his arm were broken.  One piece of bone was 
driven into his lungs.  He was brought here by a special car and taken to his 
home, where four doctors are working over him, with no hopes of his recovery.  
Dear is unmarried and one of the finest young men in Oxford.  It is stated 
that relatives will sue the company for damages.

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