David Chase (died in a Beaver Island train wreck in 1907)

Summary

David Chase is named in a July 1969 Beaver Beacon account as the person who lost his life in a Beaver Island train wreck on Good Friday, 1907.¹

Evidence and limits

This is an episode-qualified record from a later museum report. The source does not give David Chase’s age, residence, occupation, family, burial place, or precise death date, and it is not merged with other Chase records. The 1960 report’s unnamed reference to George Chase’s uncle is retained as corroborating context, not converted into an asserted family edge.

Open questions

• Can a contemporary newspaper, civil record, church register, or cemetery record establish David Chase’s identity and exact date of death?
• What was his relationship to George Chase, and were other people killed or injured in the wreck?

See also

• Death of David Chase in a Beaver Island train wreck (1907)
• Lumbering
• Beaver Island

Sources