Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-13
FORMER MARSHALLTOWN BOY
KILLED DURING wINDsToRM
At MISSOURI VALLEY.
BURIED UNDER DEBRIS
AND HEAVY TIMBERS
Telegram Comes to Father, Lem G.
Goodwin, of This City. Who Leaves
This Morning For Missouri Valley -
Goodwin Managed Dunno Northwest
ern Eating House.

During violent windstorm that
| struck the town of Missouri Valley late
Monday afternoon, Walter L. Goodwin,
a former Marshalltown boy, and son
of Lem" C. Goodwin, proprietor of
the Goodwin House. Ill South Third
, avenue was buried underneath the
debris and falling timbers Of the Mason
& Seabury automobile garage, which
was wrecked, and met instant death.
The news that his son was dead came
in a telegram to Lem Goodwin Mon
day night, but the telegram was ad-
dressed to wv. L. Goodwin" the name
Of the son, and was unopened by the
father until an hour after its receipt
at O'Clock
Thought Message For Son.
Believing when he receipted for the
telegram that his son would reach this
CITY at 7:45, and that the telegram was
for him. as addressed, Lem Goodwin
took the message in the house, laid it
on a table and awaited the arrival of
the train from the west. The train
;; arrived, and Walter Goodwin did not
put In an appearance.
T. n. Utz, a guest at the Goodwin
House. and an old friend of Mr. Good
win, knowing that he had got tele-
gram, stepped on the veranda Where
Mr. Goodwin was sitting.
ANY bad news in your message?
asked Mr.. Utz
Mr. Goodwin then explained that the
telegram was addressed to his son
Walter, and he presumed that he had
decided to come to Marshalltown un-
expectedly. and would be here at f:4'.
When o'clock arrived, and the son did
not show up, the father went indoors
tore open the envelope. and read the
contents of the message. 1t was from
his daughter in-law and read:
walter killed this afternoon; come
at once"
Telephone Communication Cut OF.
| Mr.. Goodwin tried to get telephone
message into Missouri Valley, but was
unable to do SO and was informed that
there had been a storm and that tele-
phone communication was cut OFF, IL
was not until this morning, however.
| as he was taking the train for Mis-
souri, Valley. that Mr.. Goodwin was in
formed from a railroad message that
| his son had been killed as result OF
the storm. Shortly afterward tele-
gram reached the Times Republican
from Logan, announcing Mr.. Goodwin
death as the result of the garage col
llapsing during the windstorm, and the
fact that the chautauqua tent had been
| blown down and badly damaged.
Managed Dunno Lunch Room.
Mr.. Goodwin was employed at Mis-
souri, Valley as manager of the North
western station eating house Of James
Dunno. Chicago. Before going to Mis-
souri, Valley seven years ago to take
up this work Mr.. Goodwin was en-
ployed by Mr.. Dunno in this city.
Mr.. Goodwin was Al years old, and
was a native Of Nebra ska City, Neb
His parents moved to this city when
their son Walter was years old and
resided here until 1882. when Mrs
Goodwin died while at New Orleans,
La, where she had gone for her health
Later Mr.. Goodwin married his present
wife, and the family lived at Clear
Lake. Waterloo and Boone.
At the latter place, on April 26, 1898,
Walter Goodwin enlisted in Company I,
Fifty second Iowa infantry, for serv
ice in the Spanish American war. He
ranked as a corporal, and was mus
tered out Oct 80, 1898, at Des Moines
only to enlist in the regular army. in
which ne served five years.
About ten years ago, in this city, Mr..
Goodwin took as his wife Miss May
Johnson. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Clayton Johnson, then residents of this
city but now Of Missouri Valley. The
couple had no children.
Aside from his wife and his father
Mr.. Goodwin is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Carl Anderson. Of Des Moines
formerly Hattie Goodwin. A brother
Charles, died nine years ago at Le-
| Mars.
Funeral Arrangements Not Known.
The arrangements for the funeral
were not known here today, but Mrs.
L. c. Goodwin thought it not unlikely
that the body would be brought here
for burial in the Johnson family lot in
Riverside.