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Show I ENGINEER DIES AT HIS WORK OS AN'GISI'Kfl. May 27. T. S. Int:-I Int:-I raham, flrst praml oiiKincr of the J International Brotherhood of. Ix)-comotive Ix)-comotive Kntfnecrs. dropped dwid rf, hi desk in the convention of the I'rotherhood Jn this city at noon today from npoplejcy. Mr. InRraham, who was CO yenra of ng . had been assistant ilrel jand chief engineer sine JS7X. 311 death cxme thfH morning without warning. He was RlttinK at his desk, absorbed in aome vscrk twfora him, when ha was aeon to lose consciousness suddenly and fait from IiIh desk. Several of the delegate rushed to IiIh assistance and he was tenderly laid on ti couch, but expired almost Instantly. IIIh health luui not brrn Rood for aome time. Two weeks rufo, while attending a Masonic meeting meet-ing here, he was attacked with a falnt-Jnc falnt-Jnc upell, hut was shortly revived. He imi!(, however, subsequently conllnod to h's bAd for two or three days, but eventually event-ually recovered and was able to re-Rumo re-Rumo hlH duties In the convention. HIh rrlatlvos were Immediately notified of IiIh death and hi body will be taken to Cleveland next Sunday by a committee of the Brotherhood. In graham was llrst Initiated Into the Urotherhood of Locomotive Engineers In the Fort "Wayne divlnlon In ISM. He Jmd held several high offlces in the order or-der before reaching the official position which ho held at the time of his death. He had been mentioned as a possible candldato for the office of frrand chief enRlncer at the present convention, but it was understood that he had refused to allow hia namo to be considered. There wan no opposition to his election as flirt frr&nd engineer and he would have undoubtedly been choBon to succeed suc-ceed himself by the present convention. He wan a Knight Templar and a Ma-hon, Ma-hon, CLEVTCIiAND. O., May 27. Thomas F Ingraham lived in this city and was widely known. Ho had been connected with the brotherhood for more than thirty yearn, previous to which he was n locomotive engineer. He Is survived by a son and two daughters. A remarkable coincidence In connection connec-tion -with Mr. Ingraham's death In the fa t thai former (irjdul Chief P. M. Arthur f lh broths rhoxl died .tid-denly .tid-denly of apoplexy whtlf attending ;t meeting of engineers at Winnipeg last year. |
