Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Charles Arthur LOPER

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Daily Northwestern October 11, 1890

Between The Cars

Arthur Loper's Awful Death

An Oshkosh Man Killed on the Wisconsin Central at Rugby Junction

Charles Arthur Loper was run over by the cars and killed at Rugby Junction,
at one o'clock this morning.  Mr. Loper was a brakeman on the Wisconsin
Central.  He had a freight run from her to Milwaukee and Waukesha.
Ordinarily he had a day run but last night he was put on extra work.  He
was ont he cars while the train was in Rugby Junction and in some way the
train parted.  He was to the rear of the break walking toward the front of
the train.  It was dark and he could not see the break when he came to it
and he fell down between the two cars.

The rear part of the train was still in motion and passed over his body,
injuring him so badly that he died almost instantly.  The remains were
taken to Milwaukee, and word was sent George P. Loper, his father, who went
to Milwaukee this morning.

Arthur Loper is known to nearly every one in Oshkosh.  He was married last
March, and he lived with his father on the corner of Merritt street and
Jefferson Avenue.  He has been in railroading for some time, and has had a
regular run for about a year.  He was twenty-one years of age and a bride
of a few months mourns the death of her husband.