Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-03
NOT ASLEEP, But DEAD
Discovery Made In Sioux City
Union Depot Creates Panic
Among Women
JANlToR AscERTAINs TRUTH
JANIToR AscERTAINs TRUTH
The Dead Man, Who Was Sitting Bolt
Upright in settee, in the Women's
Waiting Room, Was Joseph A. Flow
ers, Of South omaha-ReIatives Have
Been Sent For.
Special to Tines Republican.


Sioux City. Sept 3."Why, this mar
isn't asleep; hes dead!"
With this startling exclamation, jan
itor John Linstrom in the womens room
of the union depot at 6:15 yesterday
morning released his hold OH the shout
der of Joseph A. Flowers and started
back in alright
A chorus of screams echoed through
the station as 4 crowd of women. who
had been in the room for half hour
before the discovery that the lone man
in the room was dead fled precipitately
for the door. One young woman sitting
only a few feet away from the corpse
sprang to her feet in a panic and
shrieked wildly. A woman carrying q
child in her arms leaped backward and
dropping the baby to the floor, rushed
out screaming for help. In the man
waiting room the panic spread. Hyster-
ical women wrtnging their hands ran
here and there and the excitement soon
communicated to the men who came
pouring from the waiting room In the
east end of the station. While some OF
them tried to calm the women, the rest
rushed into the room, where Janltor
Linstrom stood looking at the lifeless
body.
Bolt upright in a settee, with the legs
crossed and the head inclined slightly
to one side, sat the dead man. His hat,
4
the janitor first approached, had been
knocked to the floor The eyes were
closed, but about the mouth and nose
flies crawled and buzzed.
Desk Sergeant Sloan, summoned by
the janitor, notified Coroner Wade,
who gave directions that the body be
removed to Westcott's. Before the re-
mains were taken away Sergeant
Sloan took possession of a note book.
in which the mans name and address
We're found. 1t read:
Jos. A. Flowers, 375 South Twenty
Fourth street, South Omaha" Above
1t appeared this inscription:
&c. w. b. & N. college, Concordia,
Kansas
Cards in the mans pocket indicated
he was travelling representative for
Browns Business college. A knife, a
cheap watch, five cents and check
for a package at the parcel room of
the Milwaukee depot We're the articles
found in the pockets of the coat.
The man was seen last night at 6
O'clock by Janitor Lindstrom. He was
then sitting in the mems waiting room,
reading magazine. AT 10 o'clock last
night Janitor Shaak and Station Agent
Newman saw him sitting in the wo-
mems waiting room. Janitor Shaak
the man, who reclined in
the settee snoring loudly. All efforts
to arouse him We're useless and he was
left there. 1t Is believed he died about
midnight for the body was stiff and
cold when found.
Whether it is case of suicide or
the result of heart failure and asthma,
is an open question. Coroner Wade
thinks heart failure was the cause and
will hold no inquest.
Flowers wife and three grown chill
dren residing in Omaha were notified
and either the wife or one of the sons
will be here tonight to take the body
back for burial.
Flowers was once assistant division
of the Vandalia rail-
road. later missionary and pastor of
the Methodist church at Wakefield,
Neb.. and still later the head of a de-
partment at Swift & Co.'S packing
house in So. Omaha; he has for the past
year been on the road for nurseries and
commercial colleges.
He came here about four weeks ago
and secured employment as representa-
tive for Browns Business college He
resided at Shenandoah for a few years.