Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-20
AUTO COLLISION
| WIPES OUT FAMILY
DIR. w. J. M'EvILLY, WIFE AND
/, DAUGHTER, OF DYsART,
]. KILLED IN ILLINOIS.
AUTO STRUCK BY TRAIN
!. ON NORTHWESTERN ROAD
pr. MeEviIIy Was Driving to Iowa
Homo in New Machine Purchased
!. While on Visit to lndiana-Hedse
Hid Crossing From view-Was
Prominent Tama County Physician.

Hid Crossing From View Was
Prominent Tama County Physician.
Chicago, July 2o.-Death ended the
summer vacation trip Of an entire
family yesterday morning when an
eastbound Chicago & Northwestern
passenger train crashed into the auto
mobile Of DR.. w. J. McDvilly, of Dysart,
Iowa. at Peck's crossing. a half mile
east of Lombard. Besides the physl-
clan, his wife and 9year-old daughter
Marie were in the machine. All were
thrown several yards by the train ana
the automobile was smashed to pieces
DR.. McEvilly was killed outright, the
enid isved for a few minutes after the
accident, and Mrs. McEvilly died IN
West Chicago without regaining con-
sciousness.
DR.. McEvilly and his family left their
home a week ago last night to go to
Anderson Ind, where the physician
purchased an automobile, inten g to
drive it home.
DR.. McE,villy was president of the
Tama County Medical Society. He
was born in Detroit and was 40 years
old. Mrs. McEvilly was 36 years old.
Hedge Hides Oneoming Train.
The physician apparently did not
hear the oncoming train and high
engine in time to avoid the crash The
engine in time to avoid thee rash. The
highway runs parallel with and just
south OF the tracks and crosses them
where the accident occurred. The road
than parallel the. tracks on the north
side Of the railroad into Lombard.
The physician was unfamiliar with
his new car. Instead of putting on full
speed ahead he reversed his power and
sought to back from the tracks. The
car bucked and came to q full stop. The
second which might have meant life to
AL three was lost and the mogul en-
gine pIowed thru the machine. bringing
instant death to the driver and fatal
1njufies to his wife and daughter.
Girl Dies on Train.
The train was stopped and the physi-
cian's body with his wife and daughter
taken on board. The little girl died be-
fore the train reached Wheaton. The
bodies of father and daughter were left
there and the train crew started to
take Mrs McEvilly to Elgin. She sank
rapidly, however. and 1t was deemed
wiser to place her in the Northwest
ern's hospital at West Chicago. There
she died at $3.50 o'clock in the after
noon after having recovered conscious
ness for brief period.
A telegram was sent to the Iowa
town by officers OF the Northwestern
Railway Company and members of the
Lodge OF Mystic Workers Of Wheaton
were requested by return wire to take
charge Of the remains until delega-
tion Of the home lodge, headed by the
mayor Of Dysart, could reach there to
take the bodies back. The Dysart
delegation reached Wheaton this morn
ing.
So far as is known, DR.. McEvilly
had no relatives. his parents being
dead. He moved to Iowa six years ago
from Detroit, Mich, where he first
started in the practice of medicine. He
was a graduate Of Michigan Univer-
sity.
Section hands who saw the accident
summoned physicians from Lombard.
The train was stopped after the acci-
dent and Mrs McEvilly was placed
aboard 1t to be taken to the Sherman
hospital at E!gfn, but her condition
was SO grave that she was taken from
the train at West Chicago and hurried
to the office OF DR.. T. G. sherwood,
where she died on the operating table.
Doctors Try to Save Woman.
Il turned my attention at once to the
woman" said DIR. F. B. Robish of Lom-
bard. the first physician at the scene
of the accident. "Her jaw was crushed
and she had a scalp wound. She was
unconscious. Her teeth and a section
of dental work were jaanmed down her
throat, interrupting respiration. While
I was attending her Coroner Oleson,
who also is the resident physician for
the Northwestern railroad, arrived.
We placed her on the train. hoping to
get her to hospital in Elgin, but had
to take her to a Doctors office in West
Chicago"
The personal effects of the family,
which included chiefly clothing. were
strewn along the railroad right Of way
when the suitcase in which they we're
carried was burst open. Near the body
Of the child two carefully dressed dolls
were found.
Had Driven in From Anderson.
DR.. William c. Schulze 922 Wilson
avenue, last night told how Dr. Nc
Evilly and his family were passing the
summer vacation period in an automo-
bile.
II met the physician and his family
at Anderson, Ind, last week." he said.
'rThey went to the Indiana town last
Tuesday to buy the automobile. The
doctor purchased a runabaut He plan
ned TO drive to Chicago, and, not
knowing the roads, followed Dr. Stoye,
with whom was riding in an auto
mobile when we left Anderson Friday
morning.
About 10 o'clock the same morning
some part of DR.. McEvilly's machine
broke as we were pulling into Peru.
Ind
because the part could not be re-
placed he had to wait and we came on
into Chicago That is the last 1 saw
OF him"
DR.. McEvilly arrived in Chicago on
Sunday afternoon, took his car to Mr..
Hageman1's garage. and registered.