Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 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 NIL
waukee Sunday Afternoon Meet
Tragic Death.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. G.-While
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
rled 20 the Union station. The other
bodies We're thrown u distance of 10
feet. where they were found by the rain
crew.
The victims were:
hOCHANSKI, PETER, carpenter con
tractor, 91S Twelfth avenue, 10 years old;
Skill fractured, right arm and leg broken.
CHRZAN, JOHN, carpenter contractor,
'oS Lincoln avenue, 10 years old; skull Irac-
turcd and body mutilated.
CIRLAN, CASlM1R, 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 Cf the in
yestgatiOn has not been fixed, but prob
ably it will not be held before Wednes-
day.
1t is not known how the accident oc-
CURED, as there were no witnesses.
Early Sunday afternoon the two men
started for a picnic at South milwaukee,
taking the boy with them. Shortly after
s o'clock, they started on their return
home. There is long strip of level
road at the crossing approach, and why
the drivers did not see or hear the ap-
preaching train is 4 mystery.
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-
bankIuont 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, i'll fall
ing, had struck a tie, and his neck was
broken. The boy had been driven head
first into the sand. Chzran, too, had a
fractured neck. Death in all instances
must have been instantaneous.
The body of kochansli and Casimir
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 a half hour )
time. and the body was taken to the
mOrSue.
Identified by Papers.
Shortly after II o'clock, the morgue
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 had
fallen from their clothing. 1t is said
that the train was going at rate of
forty miles an hour at the time of the ac-
cIdent, although members of the crew i'll
slst that the speed did not exceed twenty
five miles an hour. Conductor W. III
Harrison, Engineer John Dooley and
Fireman Michael Casey claim to know
nothing of how the affair occurred.
kochanski is survived by a widow and
five children, while Chzran leaves a
widow.