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The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
January 1, 1907
page 5

Mysterious Death Occurs at Harrah

Rock Island Employe Dies Suddenly After Prolonged Carousal

Coroner Shaeffer was called to Harrah yesterday noon to view the body and ascertain the cause of death of H. Hogan, aged 51, an employe (sic) of the Rock Island railway at that point, who was found dead in the section house at noon yesterday.

Hogan had been drinking heavily for several days and on Christmas day went to Shawnee in company with several acquaintances. When he left for Shawnee he had $28 in his pockets and, returning home a day or so later gave Section Foreman M. Bourne $20 to keep for him.

Saturday Hogan went to Shawnee again and returned Sunday night with $15 in his pockets. Several men with whom he had been employed on the section were sleeping when he returned Sunday night and, thinking that he would be unfit for work yesterday morning, left him in the section house. When they returned at noon yesterday they discovered him lying in the same position as when they left in the morning. Efforts to awaken him proved unavailing. It is the opinion of Coroner Shaeffer that he had died early in the morning when in the drunken stupor.

Hogan had been working for the railroad company at Harrah for two months. Little is known concerning his relatives except that he had two sons, one residing in Illinois and the other a midshipman on the battleship Illinois.