CRAWFORD  MEN  IN  WRECK
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	     Two Jackson Township Men Meet Sudden Death.
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	    Stock Train Has Rear End Collision on Illinois
	       Central in Illinois, Resulting Fatality
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Two Jackson township men, Michael C. Lawler, and H. P. Pfankuch, met
sudden death last Monday morning while sleeping soundly in a caboose
of an Illinois Central stock train running through Illinois, at the
town of Apple River, a short distance east of Dubuque. D. Lawler, a
brother of Mike, was also badly hurt, and T. F. Jordan and
J. J. Morehead of Dunlap were seriously injured at the same time.

It seems that the special stock train on which the men were riding
behind their stock was stopped at the bottom of a hill at this station
to get water, and it was while standing there that another train
rushed down upon it.  The trainmen on the stock train saw the danger
in time to jump off, but the stockmen being asleep did not know of the
danger till the awful crash came which launched them into eternity.

Altogether four men were killed and six injured in the wreck. Dan
Lawler was injured about the breast and legs, but will recover;
Mr. Jordan was injured about the back and hips and Mr. Morehead was
more seriously injured, his wife and child being sent for on Tuesday.

The railway company took every possible measure for the relief of the
men, sending special trains to carry their wives to them, and having
surgeons at hand at once.  Two sons of Mr. Pfankuch, who were
attending Denison college, were also sent for and went to West Side
and then onto their home Monday night.

Both Mr. Lawler and Mr. Pfankuch were well-to-do farmers and stock
raisers of Jackson township and are highly regarded in the community.
The funeral of Mr. Lawler occurred yesterday at Vail with a large
number witnessed the obsequies. He was a man just past middle age and
leaves a wife and ten children at home to support and comfort.  We
have not learned about the funeral of Mr. Pfankuch.


The Denison Bulletin
February 6, 1902
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February 7, 1902

News from Wall Lake.  As a result of a rear end collision early Monday morning on the Illinois Central at Apple River, in Illinois, thirty miles east of Dubuque, four men were killed and six injured, two of these men were well known Wall Lake stockmen.  Among the seriously injured is D. Lawler of Wall Lake who is injured about the breast and legs.  None of the  trains men were injured as they heard the second train approaching and jumped.  The stockmen were all asleep in the bunk car when the collision occurred; their death and injuries resulted from being crushed. The victims of the railroad wreck in Illinois from Wall Lake were buried at Wall Lake Wednesday.  Both of the victims were married; Mike Lawler leaves a wife while Louis Pancake leaves a wife and ten children.  Victor Staab, the Wall Lake Implement Dealer, was also in the wreck, as was C. Trecker, but both escaped with only slight injuries.