STEPS OFF OF CAR AND MEETS DEATH
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Believed to Have Missed Footing,
Aged Rancher is Picked Up Un.
conscious After Fall on
Central Avenue
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In attempting to alight from a rapidly moving street car going south on the Central avenue line at Twenty-eighth street and Central avenue shortly after 9 o'clock last night, R. E. Batson, aged 55, a rancher of Santa Ana, missed his footing, slipped and was hurled to the pavement and fatally injured.
Batson was picked up in an unconscious condition and hurried to the receiving hospital, where after an examination by Police Surgeon Wiley it was found he had sustained a basal fracture of the skull. He was bleeding from the ears and died shortly afterward without having regained consciousness.
The dead man formerly lived at Visalia. He was a member of the Odd Fellows' lodge of Hiawatha, Kas., and has a brother, Ezra Batson, at Santa Ana.
It is thought Batson misjudged the speed of the car and stepped off, thinking the car was slowing up.
The body was taken to the undertaking establishment of Bresee Brothers, where an inquest will be held.
-Tue Aug 11, 1908 Los Angeles Herald
DEATHS.
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Batson--R. E. Batson, son of C. L. Batson, of Hiawatha, while preparing to come home, fell off a street car in Los Angeles and was killed. He went to California a year ago from Hiawatha. Under the name of Ezra Batson he was well known to all Brown county people. His body will be brought here for interment. The funeral will be from the house at 1104 Kansas avenue at 4 o'clock Sunday. Rev. J. W. Scott will preach the sermon.
-Fri Aug 14, 1908 Brown County World (Hiawatha, KS).
STEPS OFF OF CAR AND MEETS DEATH
———————————
Believed to Have Missed Footing,
Aged Rancher is Picked Up Un.
conscious After Fall on
Central Avenue
———————————
In attempting to alight from a rapidly moving street car going south on the Central avenue line at Twenty-eighth street and Central avenue shortly after 9 o'clock last night, R. E. Batson, aged 55, a rancher of Santa Ana, missed his footing, slipped and was hurled to the pavement and fatally injured.
Batson was picked up in an unconscious condition and hurried to the receiving hospital, where after an examination by Police Surgeon Wiley it was found he had sustained a basal fracture of the skull. He was bleeding from the ears and died shortly afterward without having regained consciousness.
The dead man formerly lived at Visalia. He was a member of the Odd Fellows' lodge of Hiawatha, Kas., and has a brother, Ezra Batson, at Santa Ana.
It is thought Batson misjudged the speed of the car and stepped off, thinking the car was slowing up.
The body was taken to the undertaking establishment of Bresee Brothers, where an inquest will be held.
-Tue Aug 11, 1908 Los Angeles Herald
DEATHS.
———
Batson--R. E. Batson, son of C. L. Batson, of Hiawatha, while preparing to come home, fell off a street car in Los Angeles and was killed. He went to California a year ago from Hiawatha. Under the name of Ezra Batson he was well known to all Brown county people. His body will be brought here for interment. The funeral will be from the house at 1104 Kansas avenue at 4 o'clock Sunday. Rev. J. W. Scott will preach the sermon.
-Fri Aug 14, 1908 Brown County World (Hiawatha, KS).
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