Civil War veteran gets his headstone, 135 years after burial (spoke little english link added)

[Omaha Steve]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/civil-war-veteran-gets-his-headstone-years-after-burial/article_a4da12f7-fb89-5d5c-87a4-c3186f4802c8.html


After some finagling, a headstone was purchased for Otto Arlt's grave in Roca.

POSTED: MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015 1:00 AM | UPDATED: 9:14 AM, MON OCT 19, 2015.

ROCA, Neb. (AP) — By the time he was 50, Otto Arlt had already survived an ocean crossing, a new and foreign home, and three brutal years fighting in the Civil War.

But he didn’t hear the train coming that evening. He didn’t see it in time, either.

The Burlington and Missouri special — just a locomotive pulling a pay car — had cleared a curve and was approaching a bridge between Lincoln and Roca.

Arlt finally saw the train and tried leaping from the trestle, the engineer told the Lincoln Daily Globe in June 1880. But he slipped and fell across the tracks.

FULL great story at link.

[Downwinder]

1. Link?

[Omaha Steve]

2. Fixed it

Thanks.

[Half-Century Man]

3. Nice to know.

People out there who value strangers, even the ones from long ago.