January 12, 1905 Thursday The Daily Signal, Middletown, Ohio
Obe C. Feerer
KILLED
At Hamilton by Traction Cars
Mr. Obadiah Frere (Obe Feerer) Of This City Met Death This Morning
Was Employed by C. D. & T. Traction Company to Deliver Coal to Power Houses and Was Thrown Beneath the Wheels While Switching Cars at Lindenwald.
Obadiah Frere, employed by the C. D. & T. Traction company to deliver coal used at the power houses along the line and residing with his wife and two children on east Ninth street in this city, was instantly killed near Hamilton this morning while switching some cars on the switch at Lindenwald.
It is stated that Frere was setting the brake on a flat car attached to a loaded coal car when he was thrown between the cars and onto the tracks. Before he could save himself the wheels of the loaded car caught him and terribly mangled his body; death ensuing almost instantly.
The dead man's body was prepared for burial at Hamilton and placed in charge of Undertaker Wilson of this city, who brought it to his home on Ninth street.
Frere has been employed by the Traction Company for quite a while and had the superintendency of the delivery of the coal at the power houses between Dayton and Cincinnati and the man who unloaded it.
He formerly lived at Heno where he married a daughter of Lon Gardner. Frere's parents reside near Franklin.
A grief stricken wife and two small children survive him.
January 13, 1905 Friday The Daily Signal, Middletown, Ohio
FUNERAL HOUR
The body of O. C. Freere (Feere), who was killed by the traction cars at Hamilton yesterday, was taken to the home of Lon Gardner, father of Mrs. Freere, at Heno, where the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. Interment in the Middletown Cemetery.
vcm: Obe C FEERER was the son of George R. FEERER & Sarah C BRANDENBURG. He was buried January 15, 1905 at Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio
Obe C. Feerer
KILLED
At Hamilton by Traction Cars
Mr. Obadiah Frere (Obe Feerer) Of This City Met Death This Morning
Was Employed by C. D. & T. Traction Company to Deliver Coal to Power Houses and Was Thrown Beneath the Wheels While Switching Cars at Lindenwald.
Obadiah Frere, employed by the C. D. & T. Traction company to deliver coal used at the power houses along the line and residing with his wife and two children on east Ninth street in this city, was instantly killed near Hamilton this morning while switching some cars on the switch at Lindenwald.
It is stated that Frere was setting the brake on a flat car attached to a loaded coal car when he was thrown between the cars and onto the tracks. Before he could save himself the wheels of the loaded car caught him and terribly mangled his body; death ensuing almost instantly.
The dead man's body was prepared for burial at Hamilton and placed in charge of Undertaker Wilson of this city, who brought it to his home on Ninth street.
Frere has been employed by the Traction Company for quite a while and had the superintendency of the delivery of the coal at the power houses between Dayton and Cincinnati and the man who unloaded it.
He formerly lived at Heno where he married a daughter of Lon Gardner. Frere's parents reside near Franklin.
A grief stricken wife and two small children survive him.
January 13, 1905 Friday The Daily Signal, Middletown, Ohio
FUNERAL HOUR
The body of O. C. Freere (Feere), who was killed by the traction cars at Hamilton yesterday, was taken to the home of Lon Gardner, father of Mrs. Freere, at Heno, where the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. Interment in the Middletown Cemetery.
vcm: Obe C FEERER was the son of George R. FEERER & Sarah C BRANDENBURG. He was buried January 15, 1905 at Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio
January 12, 1905 Thursday The Daily Signal, Middletown, Ohio
Obe C. Feerer
KILLED
At Hamilton by Traction Cars
Mr. Obadiah Frere (Obe Feerer) Of This City Met Death This Morning
Was Employed by C. D. & T. Traction Company to Deliver Coal to Power Houses and Was Thrown Beneath the Wheels While Switching Cars at Lindenwald.
Obadiah Frere, employed by the C. D. & T. Traction company to deliver coal used at the power houses along the line and residing with his wife and two children on east Ninth street in this city, was instantly killed near Hamilton this morning while switching some cars on the switch at Lindenwald.
It is stated that Frere was setting the brake on a flat car attached to a loaded coal car when he was thrown between the cars and onto the tracks. Before he could save himself the wheels of the loaded car caught him and terribly mangled his body; death ensuing almost instantly.
The dead man's body was prepared for burial at Hamilton and placed in charge of Undertaker Wilson of this city, who brought it to his home on Ninth street.
Frere has been employed by the Traction Company for quite a while and had the superintendency of the delivery of the coal at the power houses between Dayton and Cincinnati and the man who unloaded it.
He formerly lived at Heno where he married a daughter of Lon Gardner. Frere's parents reside near Franklin.
A grief stricken wife and two small children survive him.
January 13, 1905 Friday The Daily Signal, Middletown, Ohio
FUNERAL HOUR
The body of O. C. Freere (Feere), who was killed by the traction cars at Hamilton yesterday, was taken to the home of Lon Gardner, father of Mrs. Freere, at Heno, where the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. Interment in the Middletown Cemetery.
vcm: Obe C FEERER was the son of George R. FEERER & Sarah C BRANDENBURG. He was buried January 15, 1905 at Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio
Obe C. Feerer
KILLED
At Hamilton by Traction Cars
Mr. Obadiah Frere (Obe Feerer) Of This City Met Death This Morning
Was Employed by C. D. & T. Traction Company to Deliver Coal to Power Houses and Was Thrown Beneath the Wheels While Switching Cars at Lindenwald.
Obadiah Frere, employed by the C. D. & T. Traction company to deliver coal used at the power houses along the line and residing with his wife and two children on east Ninth street in this city, was instantly killed near Hamilton this morning while switching some cars on the switch at Lindenwald.
It is stated that Frere was setting the brake on a flat car attached to a loaded coal car when he was thrown between the cars and onto the tracks. Before he could save himself the wheels of the loaded car caught him and terribly mangled his body; death ensuing almost instantly.
The dead man's body was prepared for burial at Hamilton and placed in charge of Undertaker Wilson of this city, who brought it to his home on Ninth street.
Frere has been employed by the Traction Company for quite a while and had the superintendency of the delivery of the coal at the power houses between Dayton and Cincinnati and the man who unloaded it.
He formerly lived at Heno where he married a daughter of Lon Gardner. Frere's parents reside near Franklin.
A grief stricken wife and two small children survive him.
January 13, 1905 Friday The Daily Signal, Middletown, Ohio
FUNERAL HOUR
The body of O. C. Freere (Feere), who was killed by the traction cars at Hamilton yesterday, was taken to the home of Lon Gardner, father of Mrs. Freere, at Heno, where the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. Interment in the Middletown Cemetery.
vcm: Obe C FEERER was the son of George R. FEERER & Sarah C BRANDENBURG. He was buried January 15, 1905 at Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio
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