SAD FATE. On Wednesday night of last week Recorder Hartnett received a telegram that his brother Jerry had been killed by the cars. Mr. Hartnett took the first train for the scene of the accident, in Iowa, and arrived in time to attend the funeral of his brother. The following account of the accident we take from the Waterloo (Ia.) Tribune of April 28:

Jerry Hartnett, conductor on the Illinois Central, went out on No. 7, yesterday morning in health and good spirits. He was brought back on the next train dead. Just how the accident occurred is not known. The train was a mixed and a long one. There were two flat-cars loaded with iron. Mr. Morun, who was on the train and been in conversation with Jerry, states that the bell-rope caught in the iron and that the conductor went out, loosed it and came in. Shortly after it caught again, and again he went out, but not returning, Mr. Morun looked out and not seeing him anywhere on cars and seeing an object on the track the matter of a quarter of a mile back immediately concluded it was him and put on the breaks and signaled to stop. He stopped the train with some little difficulty and they backed up to the object which proved to be poor Jerry. The left shoulder and arm were mashed. He probable missed step in passing from one car to another.

Jerry Hartnett had been on the road for 17 years. He was 38 yours old. Was a member of the St. Vincent Society and secretary of the same; he was also a member of the Catholic Benevolent Association, and of the Conductor's Brotherhood. He was a man of warm and deep sympathies and his friends were many who had learned to love him for a kinkiness that shone about him always. And that good heartedness that won strangers to him was as a perpetual benediction on his family. Few families were so knit together as his. His house was his dearest spot; his wife his most trusted, confident, loving counselor and friend. His boy, 12 yours of age, and his girl, 10 years, were as younger playfellows for his hours at home. Unexpectedly, but ready, he was called out of life's troubles; he was born into the brighter beyond.

Jerry Hartnett was a man who made no trouble with those below or above hin on the road. He went straight forward in the performance of his duty. He was an affectionate father. His two children, nearly of a size, met him daily at the train when he came in, and it was always a contest of speed with them which should get to him first and receive the first kiss. Then they would lead him to the office to sign the freight bills and on home. He was a loving husband; considerate and kind and tender. They will miss him at home.

Jerry Hartnett was a former resident of this county, born in Flatrock township, his mother still living and residing in Washington township, this county. He has also living in the county two brothers and a sister, one brother, Cornelius, and sister, Mrs. Lahee, living in Washington township, and Recorder Daniel Hartnett, of this place. Mr. H. left Henry county in 1864, and has been on the Illinois Central Road ever since. He had a brother killed in the late war, at Spottsylvania C. H., May 9, 1864, who lost his life as suddenly as did Jerry. The stricken relatives have the sympathies of the community.