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Louis Charles "Charlie" Sundstrom

23 Feb 1885 – 15 Feb 1913

Birth23 Feb 1885
Death15 Feb 1913
CemeterySouleville Cemetery
Sherman County , Nebraska , USA
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Obituary: The Alliance Herald, Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska, February 20, 1913 Lewis Charles Sundstrom Lewis Charles Sundstrom was born in Howard County, Nebraska, February 23, 1885. While still a small boy, he, with his parents, moved to Sheridan County, Nebr., on a farm two miles southeast of Rockville, where he lived until he was married to Miss Eva Blanche Carpenter, of Austin, Nebr., October 17, 1905. His parents then moved to Rockville and he remained on the farm four years. He then moved to Alliance. This was three years ago. He took a position as brakeman on the railroad, which position he held at the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his death, a wife, two boys, aged five and three years. Funeral services were held at the house in Alliance Sunday evening. The house was crowded with friends and members of the trainmen's orders and the Odd Fellows, who assisted in the services and care of the dead. Rev. F.A. Woten preached the funeral sermon. The body was accompanied to the depot by fifteen brother Odd Fellows and the widow and body accompanied to Ravenna by Bro. P.D. Weinel. _______________________________________ Card of Thanks: I wish to thank the many kind friends who assisted during my bereavement and sorrow in the death and burial of my husband. I wish to extend my sincere thans to the railroad men and the members of th I.O.O.F. for their kind attention and thoughtfulness. MRS. EVA SUNDSTROM and CHILDREN _______________________________________ Printed in The Alliance Herald - Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska. February 20, 1913 ALLIANCE MEN KILLED Monster Freight Engine Explodes, Killing Three Alliance Men, Entire City Grieved ENGINE BROUGHT TO ALLIANCE A shapeless mass of steel, looking like a huge cannon of war, only many times larger, was brought into the railroad yards at Alliance this morning, loaded on two flat cars. Behind the cars followed an odd, gruesome looking arrangement of wheels and the tender of an engine. It was all that remained of the monster freight engine, 5020, that left the Alliance yards Friday noon at the head of a fast through freight, No. 109, and which exploded at 12:05 Saturday morning, four miles east of Provo, South Dakota, instantly killing "Santa Fe" Johnson, engineer, G.T. Wheeler, fireman, and Lewis Charles Sundstrom, head brakeman. Dozens of people viewed the wreck of the engine in the railroad yards this morning and a large number of photos were taken. It is almost impossible for the human mind to conceive of the awful force which was expended in tearing the thick steel crown sheet from a hundred steel bolts, tearing off their heads as though they had been matches. The force of the explosion, which was downward and forward, caused the crown sheet, in tearing itself loose from the many bolts which fastened it, to pull the rear end of the monster fire box a distance of several inches. The front end of the boiler, held by large steel bolts, was torn away as though it had been made of paper. Not a vestige of the cab remains around the firebox and all that could be found of it was twisted pieces of steel and charred pieces of wood. The boiler, in its flight of three hundred feet, had nearly stripped itself of the heavy coverings placed over it. The sand dome was full of mud and the front end of the boiler, out from which projected twisted steam pipes and a mass of shapeless steel, had buried itself in the ground when striking. The engine trucks (it was a big eight-wheeler, four big drivers on each side) did not seem to be injured at all excepting where the fastenings had been torn loose when the explosion took place. It appears, from the looks of the wreck, that the first and most intense part of the explosion was around the crown sheet which is surrounding the fire box at the rear of the engine. The crown sheet, which is steel and half and inch thick, was burned and torn. The bodies of the men were brought to Alliance Sunday morning on 42 and were taken charge of by the different fraternal organizations and relatives.

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Came by his untimely death through a locomotive explosion.

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