HUGHES, Henry “Harry”
Date of death: 17 Jan 1898 – Chicago, Cook, Illinois
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 28, 1898,
Volume XXXVIII Number 29, page 1 column 3
LOCAL and PERSONAL.
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Harry Hughes, formerly of Edinburg, who died in Chicago last week, seems to have met his death from an accident. The Call says:
“Harry Hughes had made arrangements to return from Chicago and made known his intentions to an outgoing freight conductor and that he was without money. The conductor informed Hughes that it was against their rules, but if he would manage to get on the train as it started out he would not put him off, and he then paid the conductor 90 cents, all the money he had, and as the train started out Harry mounted a coal car and was making his way back to the caboose, and in the darkness fell through a scuttle hole in the bottom of the car. He managed to throw himself from under the car all but one leg which was mashed into a jelly by the wheels of the train.”
Note: Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878–1994,, database, records that thirty-five-year-old widower Henry Hughes died 17 Jan in Chicago. He was a laborer. He was buried in Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana, J. J. Brooks Funeral Home handling the arrangements. George Berz was the informant.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson