Otto Herman Saar (1911-1933)
Source: Adrienne Saar Karr
Webmaster Note
The grave of Otto Herman Saar is unmarked. According to Adrienne, there is what appears to be
the foundation of a stone, with no stone on top, in the Otto Charles Saar lot, Otto Charles
being the father of Otto Herman.
(left) Funeral services for Otto H. Saar will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at the Cutler chapel. Burial will be in Plumer Settlement cemetery. Rev. Martin Mueller will officiate.
TWO BLUFFS YOUTHS DIE IN I. C. WRECK
RELATIVES INDENTIFIY BODIES OF JACK BECK AND OTTO SAAR
RIDING FRIEGHT TRAIN
Relatives from this city identified the bodies of Jack Beck and Otto Saar Wednesday, at Independence, where the dead youths were found in the wreckage of an Illinois Central freight train late Tuesday. Beck was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beck, 1703 Ave C. Saar was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. Saar, 3111 7 th Ave.
Word of the death of the two young men reached the local families Tuesday night after officers of the civilian conservation corps had made tentative identification of the bodies.
Jack Beck and Otto Saar were members of the civilian conservation corps stationed in Hokah, Minn. They are believed to have been making their way to Hokan after a furlough when they were caught in the train wreck. The bodies were discovered when a derrick ????? one of twenty four derailed cars from a pile of debris.
Two other men riding the same train were seriously injured. They are residents of Cherokee and were in a Cherokee hospital Wednesday.
A broken rail was given as the cause which derailed the long string of cattle cars. Damage to railroad equipment was estimated at more than $20,000. Damage to the content of the cars, mostly live stock, was not estimated.
Bodies of the two Council Bluffs youths will be returned to the city for burial, members of the family said.
Saar and Beck arrived in the city last Saturday and remained until Tuesday morning. ????? of the workers was unable to say whether transportation was furnished for them both ways on the journey. They came to Council Bluffs on a regular passenger coach but were returning by freight.
Beck, who was 19, is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Beck, one brother, George Mc Cumber of Sioux City, and one sister, Almeta Mc Cumber of Council Bluffs. He had been a resident of Council Bluffs for 10 years.
Saar, 23, is survived by his parents, one brother, Delmar Saar of Council Bluffs; two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Campbell and Mrs. Mabel Wright, both of Council Bluffs, and his grandfather, Julius J. Saar, of McClelland. He had lived in Council Bluffs all his life.