grave import

Obituary

Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Coroner Bert Prugh was summoned to the Murray Iron works. On the Burlington route's right-of-way, a short distance west of Central avemue, a woman had been struck and killed by the work train, which is engaged in making repairs and relaying track between this city and West Burlington. The unfortunate victim of the accident proved to be Mrs. Anna Louise Anderson, of No 1309 Joy Street. She had been visiting on West hill and was on her way home, when the accident occurred. The work train was going out on the north track and it is supposed that Mrs. Anderson deemed herself entirely safe. She was badly crushed, but her injuries were of such a nature that it is fair to assume that death was instantaneous and that she did not have the slightest suffering. She was the wife of C. B. Anderson, an old and well known painter and had long been a resident of Burlington. She leaves the husband and one son, Herman Anderson, of South Main street.
Coroner Prugh will hold an inquest to-day.
The unfortunate happening again serves to point out the danger which is constantly hanging over the very large number of people who heed no warnings and use the private property of the C.B. and Q railway company as a public highway. There are large signs that warn the public, but, alas, we do not pay the slightest attention to these signs. Not a year passes that does not cause deaths in this manner and yet nobody thinks of going even a very short distance out of his way to keep on a public thoroughfare. We are all short-cutters and we all take chances. The dead woman probably used the tracks as a public highway for many years and it probably never occurred to her that she was trespassing upon private property, just as it never occurs to any of us to read the sign which warns people to keep off the railroad's property.