The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-11

THE BODY OF
A. Lincoln
JOHN {. PRICE WAS MEMBER
OF CREW Which HAD TRAIN
DAYToNA WINTER RESIDENT RE-
CALLS INCIDENT AS ONE OF
THE REMARKABLE HAPPEN
lNGs OF HIS LIFE.

Tomorrow is the birthday an
niversary of Abraham Lincoln, and in
this connection it is interesting to
note that in Daytona at this time is
the last surviving member of the
Pennsylvania train crew which was
in charge of the train that carried
the body of the martyred president
from Columbus, Ohio, to Indianapolis
on the way to the burial at Spring,
field, Ill.
This man is John e. Price, whose
home is in Columbus, Ohio, and who
owns winter home on Orange ave-
/ nue. and has been coming to Daytona
/ for the winter season for many
years
! Although confined to his home
rather closely with locomotor ataxia,
! Mr.. Price is otherwise a well-pre-
served man of 20 years and recalls
the incidents of his trip as one of
the remarkable happenings of his life
since he, with many other young
Ohio soldiers, answered Lincoln's
call for the 100 days service.
In the army at the age of 20,
Mr.. Price was first sergeant of Com
pany E, 1880 regiment, 0. V. l.,
which was enrolled in May, 1864, saw
100 days service in Virginia and
Maryland, was mustered out at Camp
Chase The regiment was in the
field near Petersburg at the time
OF the blowing up of the mines.
After leaving this service. before
which he was student at Ohio
Wesleyan university, he went into
railroading and at the time of Pres
ident Lincoln's assassination was a
brakeman on that portion of the
Pennsylvania lines which was then
known as the Columbus, Cincinnati,
- Chicago and Indiana Central railway.
D 1.-THE conductor of the train was
Il Price, the engineer was another
. Columbus man, Jimmy Gormley, wht
: later became a master mechanic
:, and Al Stevens, who later became {
q conductor on the road, was the mid
r die brakeman. There was anothe
IS brakeman on the front of the traiI
whose name l do not recall Thes
with porter, constituted the trail
crew
D Mourning Drapery Fired
i "Of course there was a distinguish
|, ed gathering of high government OF
i ficials on the train and also man
of the leading officials of the road
:. my uncle, Benjamin Smith, at tina
!, time was president of the road.
retmember that one of the official
came to US in the evening and saic
. Now, boys, we have a number o
. very important men on board an
Z 10 behoves US to give them ever
. you to keep faithfully to his post
= And so we did, each one keeping q
9 his own set of brakes all night Ions
. AT that time the engines burne
= cordwood in their fireboxes and til
Il flying sparks and fragments of burr
ing wood were numerous. The trai
was heavily draped with quickly il
4 flammable material and this draper
a caught fire several times and cause
= no end Of concern in putting it Gu
and watching for any further happel
ings of the same sort.
Il School, Children Sang
4 The trip to Indianapolis was mel
prable. There were arches over til
railway a long distance before "
4 reached Indianapolis and everywhel
= we stopped the crowds were larg
and the grief profound. One of I'll
i interesting incidents of the trip We
at Dublin, Indiana, where as a maj
4 of respect the school children can
out and sang some hymn to signit
their sorrow. There were bonfire
along the way and everywhere tt
4 people seemed to express the u
& most interest and respect"