Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-14
v. F. CARR MEETS
HEROIC DEATH IN
SERVICE Of OTHERS
FORMER WELL KNOWN OTTAWA
RAILWAY MAN GIVES UP LIFE
WHILE RUSHING FOOD TO
STRANDED PASSENGERS.

Driving a snow plow At { high rae
Of speed hat food could be brought
10 passengers who were stranded in
the blizzard OF Saturday several mil
from the nearest city, William +.
Carr, former superintendent Of ma n
tenance and ways Of the C., O q 2.
Railway. met death at South Bend,
Ind, in the service of others
Word OF Mi Cars death cam, to
Ottawa in messages sent out from
South Bend Sunday BY hia widow
When the word was passed around
that Bili' Carr Was dead 4 pall was
spread over all quarters where he was
best known Later IN the day
particulars OF the heroic manner in
which be gave up his life brought
many cuICg'es TO his fa!thfulness to
duty and the bigness OF his heart
which caused him to ieopardiza his
safety in the great cause OF humanity.
The accident occurred some dis.
tence outside OF the Indiana city late
saturday Word whtch gas gent here
stated that Mr. Carr led party of
worAmen who were trying to clear
the tieht Of way OF the drifts that
blockaded traffic The pra.y managed
70 reach the stranded passengers
hO5e prospects OF spending a food
less night far from town were alarm
ni iy bright
Realizing Their danger, Mr. Carr
ommaidce.ed the now piJw and
drove back to town TO obtain ed bles.
IN his return trip, il is said, the car
struck : place whore the snow ticck
"a i've rail n such a manner that the
Wheel tlanGea were raised to q Level
wi h be top of the steel rails TIC
.lrN caio. mel and then eft = e
racks, diving hcadforemost into the
ait and capsznc.
NJ Ca 7, who was at The controller,
a ulht n tie Hrectase sch
q uanncr chat when hc was erica.
'd lie wa almost o,,ilct and b,
G'ed few minutes latei
Wilt aCn who were aboard tn, Clf
With the dead super u en- en- cal,s
injury The plow after leaving h
rails, turned turtle, catching the fcr
lmcr 0ttaNan between tn stove an.
side crushing his chest He died al
mo Immediately, according to infor
mron r1nere. today. The accden
happened about twenty miles north o
%oalh Bend near he lnl ana ant
1,chirdn state line.
Mr { r who was supervising th'
i..ney when the train pproaChed ;
large diff lie ordered the motor
man to give her full power ahead.
The plow ducked into the drift ant
then topped over. All eight work
men came out OF the mishap III
scathed while their "bos' lay crushe'
'tu death between the stove and car
, side
Tha remains will be brought to q,
, tawa Tuesday for internment In tn
: mausOleum a. the Ottawa Avenn
, cemetery, bat no time has been tiXe
). for their arrival in the city, owing t
/. the condition of the railroads and tn
|. uncertainty of travel as a result c
!. the general tie.up Of all transport,
{ tion facilities.
Few men were better kla.n I
Ottawans in general than NJ, Car
He came here from the Illinois Tra
tion division Of the Mckinley synd
p cate in 1870 ana Immediately bocam
q an OttaWan in the full sense OF thu
IS tenn He entered into the city's s.
p clal and industrial life with such Vi
or and vim he became an importai
NJ cog in the city'a great boosting m
IL chine he often declared that of a
"a the cities he had lived IN Ottawa VI
u the best of Them all
le Besides his local iratornal ailili
Id tons. Mr. Carr was leading iac''
- IN the formation o. the Chamber
to Commerce and OF the Ottawa GJ
t club. For four years be held a po
n ticn as member of the state Ra
N way Board Of Control
Y. In the spring he made vain enc