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KILLED ON HIS WAY HOME
One of the saddest and most untimely deaths from the storm in East St. Louis was that of Harry F. Goodwin, a son of Editor J. West Goodwin, of the Sedalia " Bazoo. " Young Goodwin was in his 21st year. His mother died ten years ago, and after that time he made his home with his uncle, Capt. James S. Whicher, at De Mont, near St. Louis. A month ago Capt. Whicher and his wife moved to East St. Louis, but their stay was only temporary, as they intended to go to Indiana to live with their son. Young Goodwin had his possessions packed, and on a few hours after the storm be would have returned his father's home in Sedalia to live. Capt. and Mrs. Whicher were both killed. Harry caught in the wreck, and for five hours was pinioned in such a position that be could move nothing but his hands and toes. A deep cut on the back of his head proved fatal, he died after several hours of delirium. The body was taken in charge by his brother, Ben. J. Goodwin, a clerk in the Merchants-Laclede National Bank, St. Louis, who was with him when be died, and was shipped to Sedalia for interment. Mark Goodwin, another brother of the deceased, is a newspaper man at Denison, Tex. He formerly worked in St. Louis.
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