The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-06-14
Major Buckingham Killed
With Him His Daughter, Miss
Anna. and Two Other
Ladies.
STRUCK THIS MORNING BY A PERE MAR
QUETTE TRAIN IN FLINT.
Father and Sister Of Mrs Stanley E.
Parkill, of this City.

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Parkill, of this City.
News of one of the most terrible rail.
way crossing accidents which have ever
occurred in this state was received by
telegram in this city this morning.
Major Geo w. Buckingham. of Flint,
father of Mrs. Stanley E. Parkill, OF
this city, his daughter, Miss Anna, and
two other ladies, Mrs. Tom S.
Apologize and sister, Mrs. William
Humphrey. of Adrian, were struck and
instantly killed this morning in Flint
by Pere Marquette flyer.
The terrible accident occurred at the
Hamilton Avenue crossing in one of the
additions to the city while the party
were out for drive. The carriage
was struck fairly in the middle and the
body of Major Buckingham was thrown
seventy five feet from the ponit where
the accident occurred.
The bodies of two of the ladies, Mrs.
Apologize and Miss Buckingham were
found on the pilot of the engine when
it was stopped, while that of Mrs
Humphrey was found on the roadside
but a short distance from the place
where the carriage was struck. All of
the bodies were terribly mangled.
The train which struck the unfortu.
nate party was the Pere Marquette flyer,
train No. due at Flint at e:O3 1t is
said that the engineer claims to have
been running at the rate of but twenty
miles per hour but that the witnesses of
the accident assert that it was running
at the rate of fully forty miles.
Of the people who were so suddenly
hurled into eternity, all are more or
less known in this city. The ladies
who were the guests of Major Bucking
ham and daughter have visited Owosso
also, Mrs. Apologize being the editor
and proprietor of the Adrian Times
and having attended meetings of the
Michigan Republican Press Association
in this city. She was treasurer of the
association and president of the Mich
igan Women's Press Association. Her
sister Mrs. Humphrey, widow of the
late Gen. Humphrey, auditor general
of Michigan from 1857 to 1875, has ac-
companied her sister to this city on one
or more of these occasions. Major Buck
ingham was well known to the citi.
zens Of Owosso through his visits to his
daughter, Mrs. Stanley E. Parkill, while
his daughter Miss Anna was also we'll
known and was visiting her sister in
this city only short time ago.
Mrs. Parkill, on receipt of the terrible
news, at once began to make prepare
tions for going to Flint and left on the
1924 Grand Trunk train for Durand
where she expected to take a carriage
and start for Flint to be met at the
Grape farm by an automobile from
Flint, there being no train by which she
could make close connections, though
at almost the last moment her plans
may have been changed to go via Holly.
To make the matter still worse Mr..
Parkill was on his way to Washington
and in fact was not due at that city
until LIS this noon. He was i'm.
mediately telegraphed and was prob
ably met on his arrival by the news.
Lieut.. Frank Buckingham, one of
Major Buckingham's sons, is in the
northern part of the state on fishing
trip. He had but recently been notified
of his appointment to commission in
the regular army-the appointment
coming shortly after his return from
the Philippines where he had been
promoted to the rank of Captain of
Volunteers. The other son, Louis is at
home as is also the daughter Miss
Abigail who was in this city but yester.
day.
The sympathy of the entire COM
is extended to the family in its
terrible bereavement.