The Anita Tribune
Anita, Iowa
3 January, 1901

Iowan Burns in Car.

    J. S. Gilliland and an unknown man were burned to death in a car in the Rock Island yards at St. Joseph, Mo. Gilliland was moving from Northboro, Ia., to Martlin, I. T.*  J. S. Gilliland was one of the best known men in Page county. He had lived there all his life. Mr. Gilliland, who conducted  a farm of his own, was one of the heirs of the Gilliland estate.

*Indian Territory

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2011