Jay C. Ferguson Killed By An Electric Car

Jay C. Ferguson, eldest son of A. P. Ferguson of this city, was struck by an eastbound car on the D., Y., A. A. & J. electric line, about two miles west of the city, Saturday evening, and instantly killed.

There were no eyewitnesses to the accident, other than the car men, and it is difficult to say just how it occurred but from what can be gathered it is supposed that Mr. Ferguson, who resides with his father-in-law, Israel March, on what is known as the Wagner road about a half mile north of the electric line, started to come to the city to spend the night with his father and in the morning to go to Whitmore Lake. Apparently, he attempted to signal the car, and, standing too close to the track, was struck by it as it whizzed by.

The car must have been running at a high rate of speed as it struck Mr. Ferguson with such force as to hurl the body 35 feet and break both legs and an arm, besides crushing his skull.

First reports stated that he was asleep on the track, but this is evidently an error as John Bruckner and Frank Zahn, employed on the Wagner farm, report seeing a man sitting on a large stone near the track as they started for town. This was about eight o'clock in the evening and as the car was then past due and no other person was seen at that point or got on the car near there it is supposed that it could have been none other than Mr. Ferguson.

Mr. Ferguson was an industrious young man, aged 22 years, and leaves a young wife and 18 months child, besides his parents in this city.