Ypsilanti Man Killed

Fred D. Forbes, of Ypsilanti, a telephone employee, was killed in a railroad wreck, 11 miles from Charleston, S. C., yesterday. The construction engine carrying a crew of men employed by the long distance telephone company was wrecked by the rails spreading. Two men were killed and eight injured. Forbes was one of the men killed. He was a brother-in-law of Lee Brown, Ypsilanti's city attorney, and had worked in Smith's meat market for six or seven years. He was 24 years of age, leaves a wife, and a child two years old. His father is dead and his mother lives in Salem, Mo. The remains will be buried at either Ypsilanti or Hillsdale.