Keeze - George
Source: Frankfort Crescent, Wednesday, June 15, 1881, pg. 1
Monday morning, as the work train on the T. H. & I. R. R. was moving at the rate of about twenty miled an hour, a large pile-driver became partially loosened, swung around, and struck George L. Keezee and Owen Barrett, killing them almost instantly. The dead men were both residents of Crawfordsville, and men of families. Keezee was about fifty-five years of age and Barrett about fifty. There being no coroner present, by request of trustee H. M. Aughe, Isaac Cook, justice of the peace, held an inquest over the bodies in the undertaking room of G. W. Goodwin. The verdict was rendered in accordance with the facts. Two other men were injured but not fatally. The effects found on the bodies were handed over to the Treasurer, and the bodies returned to Crawfordsville. The cause of the pile becoming loosened seems to have been the breaking of the iron bar supporting one end of the pile, when it immediately swung loose and struck Barrett; he lived about twenty minutes. Keezee scarcely breathed after he was struck.
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