Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-05
HEAD OF LATIN DEPARTMENT,
s. U. l.. MEETS TRAGIC
DEATH.
HEAVY TOURING
CAR TURNS TURTLE
Educator Loses Control Of Car Whom
It Skids Thirty Feet DiasonalIy
Across Highway - Professor East
man Dies Dofore Medical Aid 10 Sc
oured-With Colleges For Years.
Special to Times Republican.

special 10 IlmeS- ktCpuplCan.
Iowa City, Aug. 5.--prof. Frederick
Carlos EASTMAN. professor and head
OF the department of Latin. Iowa UNI
versity. was almost Instantly killed.
and three others were painfully but
not dangerously injured. when the
Eastman five passenger Cadillac
turned turtle on u rural highway. four
miles east OF town. Sunday forenoon
In the car were the following: Prof.
+. c. Eastman. A. g., NJ. A., Ph. D.:
Mrs Eastman Miss Olive Eastman,
their daughter. an alumnus OF $. VI l.;
Miss Elsie Sisson. OF the universities
Latin Institutional staff.
No autopsy has been or will be held,
but 1t is believed by the surgeons In
attendance that DR.. F.astman's skull
nally injured. when the big car crushed
his chest.
Machine Turns Turtle.
The machine turned over once after
skiddipg about thirty feet diagonally
across the highway. Then it rghted
itself, after flinging out the four. Pro-
fessor Eastman and Miss Sisson were
in the front seat and his wife rnd
daughter in the rear.
1t Is believed that the educator lost
control OF the wheel and tried to avert
the impending upset by throwing on
the emergency brakes. His compan-
ions do not know exactly what hap
pened. One wheel was locked and the
other ran free. Then came the dash
md the orerturning. The car paused
on the crest of IA ditch and when res
cuers drew the professor out, OF the
way OF the wheel which his legs
blocked, the auto rolled down the de-
clivity into the ditch but did not upset
again. 1t was not badly damaged.
The three women were cut and
bruised considerably but no bones were
broken.
Farmers nearby carried the uncon-
scious man TO the Casey home but be :
fore he could reach the homestead he
breathed his last.
Educator Of long Experience.
DR.. Eastman was n scholar and edn-
Gator OF long experience. A native Of
Medina. O., he was born IS years ago
July 20. He was educated in the high
school at Norwalk. o.. and the German
Wallace College. Baldwin University,
and Upper Iowa University. winning
his A. Il. In 1884, and his NJ. A. in 1887,
at the Berea institution. and his Phi. ID.
s(honoray) at Upper Iowa.
He'was professor of Greek and Latin
at Clafiin University. Orange City. S.
G.; aDaloota University. Mitchell, S. D.;
Upper Iowa University, and Iowa State
Teachers College, between 1884 and
1907.
He came Sto S.&lg I eleven years
ago and has been one of itn foremost
faculty members ever since
He was past president Of the CLASH
cap Association Of the Middle West and
South; vice president thereof for Iowa
for several years. up to the time Of his
DEATH, and was connected with other
organizations Of note in intellectual
circles. He was an author of articles
on classical themes, and co-editor with
Prof BENJAMIN l.. DODGE. of Michi-
gan. an edition of Caesars Common
taries." issued last year and already
taking high rank in college and school
circles as valuable book.
Wife and Three Children.
Surviving are his widow whose
work In the interests, of the soldier
boys in France has recently won her
national fame. General Pershing hav-
ing expressed gratitude for the move
ment she set on foot in Iowa and the
nation to secure anti -vermin garments
for the soldiers "over there'-and three
daughters, Olive Evelyn, an alunnus of
the university; Edith Telcn, wife OF
Prof. n. F. Goodrich, professor OF law,
;. U. l.. and Madge Ethel wife Of DR..
y. A. MacGregor. of Wheeling. w. ",
also former Iowa university Girl.