The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
John E. Shuster is Instant
ly Killed.
STRUCK BY BIG FOUR TRAIN
Body Was Thrown Quite
A Distance.
Noise of an East Bound Erie Train
May Have Drowned Out the Sound
of the Approaching Big Four Fast
Passenger Train.


claimed another victim at 5:55 We'd
nesday morning when John r.. Shus-
ter. aged 35, of 1911 east Center street
was struck and instantly killed by a
Big Four passenger train No. Al at
the Greenwood street crossing of the
Erie
Mr.. Shuster was employed on what
is known as the testing table in the
Huber shops and was on his way to
work when the accident occurred. He
had come from his home on Center
street on a street car, alighting at
Greenwood street. He was walking
north on Greenwood street and when
upon the crossing, on the east side of
the street, was struck by the passen-
ger train which was going at rate
estimated at fifty miles per hour. His
! body was thrown "a distance of about
ninety feet, alighting in the center OF
the track which is south of the main
track. From there the body rolled a
distance of thirty or forty feet where
it was later picked up by the ambu-
/ lance men from the firm of Postle and
Curtis. The body was quite b3wly mu-
tilated Both legs were broken, the
! right arm and a number of the ribs
were broken, the face was mashed,
the back of the head was crushed and
the trunk was bruised and cut in
many places.
There appears to have been only one
witness to the accident. Edward
Brady. who resides at 376 Lincoln
avenue and is employed in the yards
at the Huber works, saw Shuster ap-
preaching the tracks and endeavored
to give him warning of the oncoming
train, but he was unable to make him
hear Mr.. Brady states that at the
time of the accident, an Erie passen-
ger train was going east on the Big
Four tracks and that the noise from
this train probably drowned out the
sound of the approaching Big Four
train. He states that Shuster did not
slaclSen his pace as he approached the
Erie tracks and was walking with his
head down. Mr.. brady is unable to
say whether or not a warning was
given by the engineer of the Big Four
train, that, when he saw Snuster al
most upon the tracks in front of the
train, he became so excited that he
really does not know wnat did occur
Mr.. Brady was the first man to
reach Shuster after the train had
passed, Mr.. A. II. Rice an electrical
engineer at the Huber works arriving
in a few seconds. These men agree
that life was eXtint when they ar
rived, there being only a slight twitch-
ing of the arms and legs noticeable.
The Postle and Curtiss ambulance
was called and the remains were taxi
en- to the morgue where they were
for burial. Later they were
transferred to the home on east Cen
ter street.
The victim of the accident was a
man and leaves a wife, three
and two step-children The
father and mother Mr.. and Mrs. Jared
of north of LaRue three
brothers and three sisters also survive.
peculiar fact In connection with
the accident Is that one brother, Will
nam Huu botli itbS cut oi
der an Erie train, north of LaRue.
about twenty years ago and an uncle,
William A. Shuster, veteran of the
Civil war, was killed by a Big Four
passenger train in LaRue about a
year ago. Until the early winter, John
Shuster resided In LaRue, but at
that time he came to Marion and ac-
cepted employment with the Huber
company.
The scene depicted at the Shuster
home this morning when the news of
the accident was conveyed TO the mem
hers was very pathetic one. Only
short time before the husband and
father had bid boodbye to his family
and started for his daily employment
The wife and mother was heartbroken
when told OF the sad affair and the
children could not be comforted.
The widow and three children are
living. They are John H., aged 12;
Mary, aged 10, and Hazel, aged nine
years.
Funeral services will probably be
held Friday morning at LaRue where
the remains will be shipped for burial.
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