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Detroit Free Press
Tuesday, 29 December, 1903

         [Victim of Dec. 26, 1903 Pere Marquette head-on train wreck]
         
         Reed City, Mich., December 28 - (Special)
         Word was received from Grand Rapids this afternoon that
       they had just succeeded in identifying one of the bodies
       of the Pere Marquette wreck as that of JOHN M. McSWEEN,
       of this city. He was 24 years of age, unmarried, and a
       son of the late THOMAS R. McSWEEN, for twenty-five years
       agent for the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway at this place.
       JOHN was for some time warehouseman for the G.R. & I. here,
       but for several months has been shipping clerk for the
       Grand Ledge chair factory, working under his uncle, A. J.
       KINGSLEY.
       
         Before his removal from here he was local agent for The
       Free Press, and had built up quite a large business, being
       regarded as a very bright young man and a great hustler.
       His mother, one brother and one sister survive him. He was
       a Mason, a member of the local lodge. His body will be
       brought here tonight for burial.
       
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