The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-03-30
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

|
One of the most shocking accidents
that has ever occurred within the limits
of our city was enacted about 10 o'clock
| Friday morning at the railway crossing
near the western limits of the yards, and
the passengers who had assembled upon
the station platform were Mortified at
the tragedy that came plainly within
their view.
{ The Chicago Madison passenger, due
here at 9:59, was approaching the station
just as Mrs. Morris w. Hahn drove upon
the crossing in front of the rapidly NOV
ing train. The engine of west bound
freight stood on the siding near the
crossing whose escaping steam may have
attracted the attention of Mrs. Hahn so
she did not hear the whistle or noise of
the coming passenger train until too late
| to clear the track. The locomotive
struck the team as they were partly
across the track, throwing the wagon
high in the air. Mrs. Hahn being thrown
fully fifty feet to the south side of the
track, her head striking the standard of
the switch, bending it nearly double.
| Her death must have been instantane-
Gus, for those who first went to the res
cue found no signs of life remaining. An
arm and limb were also broken by the
impact.
Several persons in the neighborhood
were eye witnesses to the accident and
the injured woman was tenderly placed
on cot and taken to the home of Mrs.
Pringle near by, and later to the home
of Mrs. J. D. Hahn, mother of her hus-
band.
One Of the horses was empaled upon
| the signal staff of the locomotive and the
other dragged by the harness nearly
1000 feet before the train was brought
to stop, while the wagon was scattered
along the track the entire distance. Both
animals were so badly injured that they
were put out of their suffering by revol-
YER shots
The Westlake crossing where this ac-
cident occurred is in some respects a
from cut just before reaching it and
houses line the road some distance west,
obscuring the railway right of way. And
yet there is opportunity to get view of
the track in either direction before driv-
ing upon the crossing, if people would
take the precaution.
| Morris Hahn and his wife run an ex-
| tensive chicken farm Just west of the
city limits. On Friday morning Mrs.
Hahn was on her way to town with load
of chickens and eggs to be shipped by
express to Milwaukee, as was her custom
two or three times week for some years
past. Just how she should fail to have
been on the lookout for this train which
she knew to be due about this time is
hard to understand. It is possible she
miscalculated the speed of the train and
| thought she had time to clear the cross
| ing in advance of it. These are mere
suggestions, however. Under the cir
cumstances, the death being purely ac-
cidental, no inquest was held.
The shocking accident has cast gloom
over the entire community, and the sym
pathy of all is with the bereaved hus-
band and relatives.
MRS. MORRIS HAHN.
The life which was so suddenly ter
| %ol Lx,% - - 10
ing was ushered into being in the home
of George and Mary Sherwood in the
| township of Sumner, Jefferson county,
on the 18th of December, 1859 When
about eight years Of age her mother died
married again, the motherless girl be-
came little mother as we'll as older sister
to the children born into the new home
circle. Thus very early in life those Pc
culiar and choice traits, which in after
years endeared her to such host of
friends to whom she ministered so ten
derby and skillfully, we're brought into
service.
When about nine years of age the fam
lily removed to Albion township, Dane
county, where the child. Ann, grew up
into the womanhood which we all ad-
| tuIIoo' LILO Suuuy OlSpOSlCIOu Will
which she was blessed won her host of
trends, whether as child in the district
school Or in the later years of life.
At the age of 20 she was united in
marriage with Mr.. Knute Busrud, but a
few weeks after the wedding the hus.
band contracted the measles which ter
minated fatally and the bride was
plunged into the sorrow of widowhood.
1t was during the period which fol-
lowed that her larger work among the
people was done. A ministry which lin.
gers still as a fragrant memory. She was
| born nurse.
On March Is, 1892, she was married to
Mr.. Morris Hahn "a happy union. The
years, though filled with toll, were full
of JOY.
Such is life-like grass which groweth
up. In~she morning fourisheth and
groweth up, in the evening it is cut down
end withereth. She went forth in health
and strength to return no more, and out
of the depths and yet with the faith of
Paul we say, "Now we see through the