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- Nelson's WWI Draft Registration reports him as being of medium height and medium build with blue eyes and black hair. It also records his birth date as 20 May 1876.
Kankakee Daily Republican (IL) -- 10 Oct 1925
ARBOUR MEETS DEATH UNDER TRAIN WHEELS
Laborer Walks In Center Of Big Four Track And Is Run Down -- Fails To Hear Train -- Coroner Cartier Conducts Inquest Friday Evening -- Deceased Leaves Two Brothers
Nelson Arbour, 45 years old, a laborer employed by the Chicago Heights Construction Company, which maintains a plant near the Public Service Company Gas plant, was almost instantly killed shortly after 5 o'clock last night when he was struckby a Big Four passenger train about one hundred feet west of Hobbie Avenue. Arbour's body, badly mutilated, was taken to the B. F. Hertz undertaking establishment where coroner O. J. Cartier conducted the inquest at 7 o'clock last night. Thejury returned averdict of death due to shock and injuries received by being struck bya train. According to the testimony of witnesses at the inquest, Arbour was walking in the center of the main track when Passenger Train No.1westbound approached from behind.A Seneca train was pulling on a nearby sidetrack andthe noise of this train is believe to have drowned out the approach of the passenger train. A brakeman on the Seneca train saidhe yelled to Arbour to look out, but that Arbour apparently did nothear him. The fireman of the Big Four passenger train said he saw Arbour in the center of the track when it was too late to stop the engine. The train crew of the passenger train, which goes off duty here, testified at the inquest. Arbour, accordingto the best information obtainable, was never married and, so far as could be learned, has only two brothers living. He has been making his home with oneof his brothers in Kankakee. Inasmuch as the brothersclaim they have no means for taking care of the funeral arrangements, the body was being held at the Hertz chapel pending further disposition of the case.
Mound Grove Cemetery -- Plot: Single 15
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1878 - 1925 (47 ans)