Published as it appeared on July 21, 1907, in The Oregonian (Portland), Page 17, Column 4.
YOUTH DIES ON BOARD TRAIN
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Consumptive Has Sinking Spell and
Expires in Few Minutes
ALBANY, Or., July 20. — (Special.) — Seated in the midst of a car full of passengers, S.S. Stalnaker, of Philomath, died at 1 o’clock this afternoon on the Corvallis & Eastern train as it was just ready to leave Yaquina. Stalnaker was 26 years old and had long been suffering from consumption.
Stalnaker’s home was at Philomath but, accompanied by his parents, he has recently been visiting Ashland. He arrived here this morning and waited at the Southern Pacific depot until noon when his parents took him to the C&E depot and placed him aboard the train, intending to go to Philomath. The young man was very weak, but there was no indication at all of immediate death. He suddenly took a sinking spell, however, and died before he could be taken from the train.
Published as it appeared on July 23, 1907, in the Corvallis Gazette, Page 2, Columns 3-4.
At the M.E. church in Philomath at 10 o’clock, yesterday forenoon, occurred the funeral of S.S. Stalnaker. The services were conducted by Rev. P.O. Bonebrake and interment was in Newton cemetery. Deceased was aged 26 years and leaves a wife and one child. His ailment was tuberculosis and he was returning to his home at Philomath from Ashland, Saturday, where he had been for his health. In Albany he waited for some time for his train and grew so weak that he had to be assisted into the car. The latter was crowded with people going to Newport, and a few minutes after being placed in the seat Mr. Stalnaker died. He was accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Stalnaker, and the remains were taken to the undertaking parlors in Albany, being conveyed to Philomath, Sunday. Deceased was a worthy young man, and his relatives have the sympathy of all in this hour.
Published as it appeared on July 25, 1907, in the Albany Weekly Herald, Page 4, Column 1.
While seated in a passenger coach of the Corvallis & Eastern Saturday S.S. Stalnaker, a young man 26 years of age expired suddenly. The coach was crowded at the time with summer tourists bound for Newport, and for a moment some excitement was caused when the news of the man’s death was discovered. The cause of death was consumption. The deceased was on his way from Ashland, where he had been for his health, to his home in Philomath, and was accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Stalnaker. All morning the sick man sat in the depot waiting for the train which would take him home. He grew weaker and weaker, until noon when he was unable to walk and was carried to a seat in the coach. Five minutes afterward he died. Coroner Fortmiller was summoned and the body was removed to the undertaking parlors. The remains were sent to Philomath Saturday.