The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-15
Deputy Police Commissioner
Auto Struck by a Rutland
R. R. Train.
MISS WILLING WITH HIM.
Both Flung 40 Feet and Taken
Up Oead-Iwo Others nurt.

One Was Ambrose Cramer OF Chicago,
Miss vikings Nephew-The Machine
Was speeding Over Pixies Crossing
Near Bennington and Was Struck by
the Tender Of Passenger Engine That
Was Backing With . Train Between
Bennington and North Bennington
Mr.. Lindsey and Miss willing Were
to Have Been Married Next Week.
MANCHESTER. Vt, Aug. 1t.-Deputy Police
Commissioner Harris Lindsey OF New
York and his betrothed, Miss Evelyn
Pierrepont Willing Of Chicago, were killed
this afternoon at Pixies Crossing on the
Rutland Railroad between Bennington and
North Bennington. Their automobile was
struck by a passenger train. Young Am
brose Cramer Of Chicago, Miss Vikings
nephew. and j. Adamson Of New York
city, the chauffeur, escaped with injuries.
The party were guests here Of the Equi-
nox House and left early this morning
to make the trip to Williamstown, take
luncheon at the Greylock Inn and return
here tonight. On their way back the ma
chine, which Is Mercedes. was climbing
the steep grade over the crossing when
the passenger train, tender frst, struck it
Just back Of the center. The grade there is
very steep and short with level stretches
on both sides. It Is the custom Of drivers
Of high power oars to take it at high speed,
% that the car was probably going forty
miles an hour when struck. The dead
were picked up forty-two feet from
the track. They had been hurled against
a fenoe with suffl Gent force to knock it
over.
Miss Willing and Mr.. Lindsey were riding
In the tonneau, while Cramer and the driver
were IN the front seat. The first two were
Instantly killed, while the young man es-
capped with a broken leg and the driver
was badly cut up. The engine, tender and
combination car Of the train were derailed
but no one on the train was hurt.
Cramer and Adamson were taken to the
Soldiers Home Hospital at Bennington
and the bodies were taken to Balbridge's
undertaking rooms.
The automobile was smashed and burned
up.
Miss willing and Mr.. Lindsey were to
have been married next week.
RUTLAND, Vt; Aug. 14.-At the place
where the accident happened, the road
emerges from deep cut in side hill. and
although the engineer who was running
his engine backward is said to have blown
his whistle, the occupants Of the automo-
bile had no warning Of its approach and
their car was hit fairly just back Of the
middle while travelling at fast clip.
Engineer William Sibley Of the locomo-
tive and Fireman William Mangan both
jumped in time to save themselves from
injury, the the train left the rails, ripping
up over one hyndred feet Of track. The
engine and its caboose were rolled into q
gully, but the cars. which cnotained only
fifteen passengers, remained on the tracks.
The passengers Of the train, although
shaken up, were not injured. The wrecked
automobile which was registered 1901,
city Of Chicago afterward took fire from
a series Of explosions in Its gasoline tank
In field about sixty feet from the crossing,
where 1t had been hurled by the force Of the
collision. Iindsley's lifeless body was
picked up short distance from the road
SIDE Miss Willing lived only a few
minutes.
Miss Willing is the granddaughter Of former
Governor Mark Skinner and the daughter
Of Mrs. F. NJ. Willing, who gave the Mark
Skinner memorial library to Manchester.
wrecking train left here late this evening
to clear the wreckage, which has stopped
traffic on the division.
The first official news Of the accident here
came in a telegram from Manchester. VT,
to Police Headquarters addressed to Com
missioner McAdoo. The Commissioner Is
at Magnolia. Mass. His secretary, Mr..
Howell. is at Far Rockaway, and the tele-
gram was sent to him there. 1t read;
Notify Deputy Commissioner Lindsley's
relatives that he was killed by train near
Bennin gton. Vt, while in auto with Miss
Willing. Body at 8. Edward Balbridge's
undertaking rooms. Notify US OF anything
you wish done. Z. c. ORzIs.
Manager OF the Equinox House. Manches-
ter.
Mr.. Howell Immediately telegraphed
to Commissioner MoAdoo and set in motion
the police machinery to notify Mr. Linds-
ley's relatives. His only accessible rela-
tive, so far as the police knew, was his
brother, Van Sinderen Lindsey, who lived
with him at 10 Irving place. Mr.. MoAdoo
called up the house from Magnolia and
afterward got into communication with
the police at Bennington.
1t was late before the news could be got