RICHARD LANSING EGGLESTON

Officer Rank: Deputy City Marshal
Memorial Panel: 6-E: 29
Department: Osceola, Iowa, P.D.
End of Watch: November 22, 1917
Cause: CRUSH
Age: 50
Years of Service: 8
Description: Deputy City Marshal Eggleston was crushed by a falling wall while at the scene of a fire in a pharmacy. An explosion inside the burning building caused the back wall to collapse. Deputy Eggleston died at the scene. Two others were injured and another man died.
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