Classification: Obituary
The Byron Express
Friday, September 28, 1923
Front page
Byron Boy Killed at Dixon
Another Byron young man was victim of a fatal accident last Thursday afternoon when Errol Leary received a shock from a 440-volt wire while working on a motor at the steam plant of the I. N. U. at Dixon which caused him to fall about 12 feet to the floor and injured him so seriously that he never regained consciousness.
Errol had been employed by the company as lineman for nearly a year and was but recently transferred to a position at the Dixon steam plant. With other employes he was assisting in starting an electric motor which was about 12 feet above the floor on a heavy steel beam.
It is believed that he went up the ladder to investigate the motor which was not operating as it should, and received a shock of 440 volts, which threw him from the steel I beam, and he fell a distance of about 12 feet and landing on th right side of his head and right shoulder. Employes rushed to his side and carried the limp body to a platform outside the building, where artificial respiration was started and continued for almost two hours without result.
An inquest was held at Dixon on Friday morning and the remains were brought to Byron that afternoon.
The funeral was held Monday morning from the home and St. Mary's Catholic church. Rev. Fr. A. J. Vollman officiated and said a requiem high mass in which he was assisted by Mrs. J. J. Barrett and Miss Wicke of Rockford as soloist and organist. The church was filled to capacity for the obsequies, many friends of the young man and his family attending from out of town. Burial was in the SCt. Mary's cemetery west of Byron.
Errol had spent his entire life in the vicinity of Byron until he took this position, in which he had made good and just recieved a merited promotion. His untimely death was a severe shock to his parents, brothers and sisters, and they have the sincere sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Errol Leary was born in Byron on December 10, 1901, and died at Dixon, Ill., on September 20, 1923. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Leary. He is survived by his parents, five sisters, Mrs. J. A. Holquist of Davis Junction, Mrs. Juel Myers of Rockford, and Mrs. H. L. Kennedy and Misses Ella and Florence of Byron, and four brothers, Mose and William, Jr., of Byron, Edward and Harry of Rockford.
He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church of Byron and the Knights of Columbus at Oregon.
The Byron Express
Friday, September 28, 1923
Front page
Byron Boy Killed at Dixon
Another Byron young man was victim of a fatal accident last Thursday afternoon when Errol Leary received a shock from a 440-volt wire while working on a motor at the steam plant of the I. N. U. at Dixon which caused him to fall about 12 feet to the floor and injured him so seriously that he never regained consciousness.
Errol had been employed by the company as lineman for nearly a year and was but recently transferred to a position at the Dixon steam plant. With other employes he was assisting in starting an electric motor which was about 12 feet above the floor on a heavy steel beam.
It is believed that he went up the ladder to investigate the motor which was not operating as it should, and received a shock of 440 volts, which threw him from the steel I beam, and he fell a distance of about 12 feet and landing on th right side of his head and right shoulder. Employes rushed to his side and carried the limp body to a platform outside the building, where artificial respiration was started and continued for almost two hours without result.
An inquest was held at Dixon on Friday morning and the remains were brought to Byron that afternoon.
The funeral was held Monday morning from the home and St. Mary's Catholic church. Rev. Fr. A. J. Vollman officiated and said a requiem high mass in which he was assisted by Mrs. J. J. Barrett and Miss Wicke of Rockford as soloist and organist. The church was filled to capacity for the obsequies, many friends of the young man and his family attending from out of town. Burial was in the SCt. Mary's cemetery west of Byron.
Errol had spent his entire life in the vicinity of Byron until he took this position, in which he had made good and just recieved a merited promotion. His untimely death was a severe shock to his parents, brothers and sisters, and they have the sincere sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Errol Leary was born in Byron on December 10, 1901, and died at Dixon, Ill., on September 20, 1923. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Leary. He is survived by his parents, five sisters, Mrs. J. A. Holquist of Davis Junction, Mrs. Juel Myers of Rockford, and Mrs. H. L. Kennedy and Misses Ella and Florence of Byron, and four brothers, Mose and William, Jr., of Byron, Edward and Harry of Rockford.
He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church of Byron and the Knights of Columbus at Oregon.
Classification: Obituary
The Byron Express
Friday, September 28, 1923
Front page
Byron Boy Killed at Dixon
Another Byron young man was victim of a fatal accident last Thursday afternoon when Errol Leary received a shock from a 440-volt wire while working on a motor at the steam plant of the I. N. U. at Dixon which caused him to fall about 12 feet to the floor and injured him so seriously that he never regained consciousness.
Errol had been employed by the company as lineman for nearly a year and was but recently transferred to a position at the Dixon steam plant. With other employes he was assisting in starting an electric motor which was about 12 feet above the floor on a heavy steel beam.
It is believed that he went up the ladder to investigate the motor which was not operating as it should, and received a shock of 440 volts, which threw him from the steel I beam, and he fell a distance of about 12 feet and landing on th right side of his head and right shoulder. Employes rushed to his side and carried the limp body to a platform outside the building, where artificial respiration was started and continued for almost two hours without result.
An inquest was held at Dixon on Friday morning and the remains were brought to Byron that afternoon.
The funeral was held Monday morning from the home and St. Mary's Catholic church. Rev. Fr. A. J. Vollman officiated and said a requiem high mass in which he was assisted by Mrs. J. J. Barrett and Miss Wicke of Rockford as soloist and organist. The church was filled to capacity for the obsequies, many friends of the young man and his family attending from out of town. Burial was in the SCt. Mary's cemetery west of Byron.
Errol had spent his entire life in the vicinity of Byron until he took this position, in which he had made good and just recieved a merited promotion. His untimely death was a severe shock to his parents, brothers and sisters, and they have the sincere sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Errol Leary was born in Byron on December 10, 1901, and died at Dixon, Ill., on September 20, 1923. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Leary. He is survived by his parents, five sisters, Mrs. J. A. Holquist of Davis Junction, Mrs. Juel Myers of Rockford, and Mrs. H. L. Kennedy and Misses Ella and Florence of Byron, and four brothers, Mose and William, Jr., of Byron, Edward and Harry of Rockford.
He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church of Byron and the Knights of Columbus at Oregon.
The Byron Express
Friday, September 28, 1923
Front page
Byron Boy Killed at Dixon
Another Byron young man was victim of a fatal accident last Thursday afternoon when Errol Leary received a shock from a 440-volt wire while working on a motor at the steam plant of the I. N. U. at Dixon which caused him to fall about 12 feet to the floor and injured him so seriously that he never regained consciousness.
Errol had been employed by the company as lineman for nearly a year and was but recently transferred to a position at the Dixon steam plant. With other employes he was assisting in starting an electric motor which was about 12 feet above the floor on a heavy steel beam.
It is believed that he went up the ladder to investigate the motor which was not operating as it should, and received a shock of 440 volts, which threw him from the steel I beam, and he fell a distance of about 12 feet and landing on th right side of his head and right shoulder. Employes rushed to his side and carried the limp body to a platform outside the building, where artificial respiration was started and continued for almost two hours without result.
An inquest was held at Dixon on Friday morning and the remains were brought to Byron that afternoon.
The funeral was held Monday morning from the home and St. Mary's Catholic church. Rev. Fr. A. J. Vollman officiated and said a requiem high mass in which he was assisted by Mrs. J. J. Barrett and Miss Wicke of Rockford as soloist and organist. The church was filled to capacity for the obsequies, many friends of the young man and his family attending from out of town. Burial was in the SCt. Mary's cemetery west of Byron.
Errol had spent his entire life in the vicinity of Byron until he took this position, in which he had made good and just recieved a merited promotion. His untimely death was a severe shock to his parents, brothers and sisters, and they have the sincere sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Errol Leary was born in Byron on December 10, 1901, and died at Dixon, Ill., on September 20, 1923. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Leary. He is survived by his parents, five sisters, Mrs. J. A. Holquist of Davis Junction, Mrs. Juel Myers of Rockford, and Mrs. H. L. Kennedy and Misses Ella and Florence of Byron, and four brothers, Mose and William, Jr., of Byron, Edward and Harry of Rockford.
He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church of Byron and the Knights of Columbus at Oregon.
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