Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-10
KILLED At A CROSSING.
PIONEER LIMITED ON MILWAUKEE,
ROAD CRASHES INTO BUGGY AT
OKLAHOMA AVENUE.
MET DEATH INSTANTLY.
Trio Returning from Picnic in South Mil
waukee Sunday Afternoon Meet
Tragic Death.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug. 6.-While
returning from a picnic IN South
Milwaukee at $50 o'clock Sunday night,
two men and boy were run down and
instantly killed by the Pioneer limited of
the Milwaukee road at the Oklahoma
avenue crossing.
The buggy containing the trio was
struck squarely by the train, and shat
tered to bits. The victims were thrown
out, one of the bodies landing on the
pilot of the engine, where it was car
ried to the Union station. The otler
bodies were thrown a distance OF 10
feet. where they were found by the train
crew.
The victims were:
KOCHANSKI, PETER, carpenter con
tractor, 918 Twelfth avenue, 40 years old;
skill fractured, right arm and leg broken.
CHRZAN, JOHN, carpenter contractor,
703 Lincoln avenue, 40 years old; skull frac-
tured and body mutilated.
CHRZAN CASIMIR, son of John Chrzan,
aged II years; skull fractured, legs broken
and body mutilated.
Coroner to Hold Inquest
The bodies have been taken in charge
by Coroner Henry J. Broegman, and an
inquest will be held. The date OF the in
yestigation has not been fixed, but prob
aDiy 1t VIII not De nelu De1ofe w euAeo-
day.
1t is not known how the accident oc-
cured, as there were no witnesses.
Early Sunday afternoon the two men
started for picnic at South milwaukee,
taking the boy with them. Shortly after
3 o'clock, they started on their return
home There is a long strip of level
road at the crossing approach, and why
the drivers did not see or hear the ap-
DrOo chino in ia ToVStprV
Search for Bodies
Nothing was known of the accident
until the collision. When the crash
came, the train was at once stopped and
a search for the bodies commenced: That
of Kochanski was found near the EN-.
bankment 100 feet away, while % feet
beyond lay the body of the boy. The re-
mains of John Chzran were found on the
pilot of the engine. Kochanski, in fall
ing, had struck a tie, and his neck was
broken. The boy had been driven head
first into the sand. Chzran, too, had
fractured neck. Death in all instances
must have been instantaneous.
The body of kOchanSki and CaSimu
ChZran were placed beside the tracks
and Il guard left to care for them. The
remains of John Chzran were not re,
moved. Then the train was run into the
Union yards, as another train was eX
cected along the tracks in half hours
time. and the body was taken to the
n0rgue.
Identified by Papers.
Shortly after II o'clock, the morgut
wagon arrived at the scene of the acct
dent and took the bodies away. Report
ers already had secured the Identification
of the victims through papers which haC
fallen from their clothing. 1t is sale
that the train was going at a rate OF
forty miles an hour at the time of the &C
cident, although members of the crew i'll
sist that the speed did not exceed twenty
FIVE miles an hour. Conductor W. II
Harrison, Engineer John Dooley anG
Fireman Michael Casey claim to know
nothing of how the affair occurred.
Kochanski is survived by q widow anC
five children, while Chzran leaves
widow.