Eva Reed
Railway Accident
Today in 1901, the world lost Eva Reed, a botanist, author, and librarian with the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
In a tragic accident, Reed had been sketching on the tracks of the Burlington railway, near Louisiana, Missouri, when she was run over and instantly killed by a passenger train.
Several years earlier, she had become almost totally deaf as the result of a fever.
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