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Carter Avery Bliss (1896 - 1913): News Article about Death due to Accident
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Carter Avery Bliss
BIRTH 1896
DEATH May 1913 (aged 16–17)
Kane County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL Sugar Grove Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA
NEWS ARTICLE TRANSCRIPTION:
BLOW ON HEAD KILLS BLISS
May 1913
Carter A. Bliss, Son of President Bliss of DeKalb Line, Dies Following Accident
Youth employed on Railroad struck by pole near Kaneville
Carter Bliss, 17-year-old son of President Jedediah Harris Bliss (J.H. Bliss) of the Aurora & DeKalb line, who was hit in the back of the head by a swinging telephone pole near Kaneville Tuesday morning, died at the St. Joseph hospital this morning at 3:55 o’clock. He never regained consciousness after he was hit.
Young Bliss was hurt in a peculiar accident. A pole being dragged by a work car, of which he had charge, struck an obstruction and swung around, striking the boy at the base of his brain. He was hurried to the hospital and operated on, but the fracture was fatal.
His mother is prostrated. She was visiting in Ohio when notified of the accident. She arrived here with her daughter Catherine yesterday morning at 8 o’clock and went at once to her boy’s bedside.
Young Bliss was employed on his father’s railroad and was one of its best liked men. He is survived by his parents, two sisters, Mrs. W.K. Evans of Toldeo, Ohio, and Miss Catherine Bliss of Sugar Grove, and one brother, J. Harry Evans of this city.
The funeral will be held from the Bliss home in Sugar Grove Saturday afternoon at 2:45 o’clock, the Reverend Dr. Lounsbury officiating. Interment will be in the Sugar Grove Cemetery.
The coroner’s jury in the case met this afternoon and hear testimony from two witnesses and returned a verdict of “accidental death.”
BIRTH 1896
DEATH May 1913 (aged 16–17)
Kane County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL Sugar Grove Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA
NEWS ARTICLE TRANSCRIPTION:
BLOW ON HEAD KILLS BLISS
May 1913
Carter A. Bliss, Son of President Bliss of DeKalb Line, Dies Following Accident
Youth employed on Railroad struck by pole near Kaneville
Carter Bliss, 17-year-old son of President Jedediah Harris Bliss (J.H. Bliss) of the Aurora & DeKalb line, who was hit in the back of the head by a swinging telephone pole near Kaneville Tuesday morning, died at the St. Joseph hospital this morning at 3:55 o’clock. He never regained consciousness after he was hit.
Young Bliss was hurt in a peculiar accident. A pole being dragged by a work car, of which he had charge, struck an obstruction and swung around, striking the boy at the base of his brain. He was hurried to the hospital and operated on, but the fracture was fatal.
His mother is prostrated. She was visiting in Ohio when notified of the accident. She arrived here with her daughter Catherine yesterday morning at 8 o’clock and went at once to her boy’s bedside.
Young Bliss was employed on his father’s railroad and was one of its best liked men. He is survived by his parents, two sisters, Mrs. W.K. Evans of Toldeo, Ohio, and Miss Catherine Bliss of Sugar Grove, and one brother, J. Harry Evans of this city.
The funeral will be held from the Bliss home in Sugar Grove Saturday afternoon at 2:45 o’clock, the Reverend Dr. Lounsbury officiating. Interment will be in the Sugar Grove Cemetery.
The coroner’s jury in the case met this afternoon and hear testimony from two witnesses and returned a verdict of “accidental death.”
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