The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-07-06
/. N. JENKINS KILLED
Wife and Children and Also Frank
Hamilton Are Injured.

CURED Friday evening about eight
twenty o'clock at the intersection OF
Fifth avenue west with the Burling
ton tracks, about one block west of
d street.
Dead.
E. NJ. Jenkins, Oskaloosa, No. 30l
South D street.
Injured.
Georgia Jenkins, aged 3, hurt head
and legs.
Frank Hamilton, knees skinned,
bruised about body.
Mrs. Jenkins and son Edwin es-
capped with comparatively small in
| jury.
Nj. Jenkins and party were in an
automobile going east on Fifth aven-
ne. The car when exactly on the
rails was hit by the tender of Bur
| lington engine, switching in the yards.
| The engine was coming from the
north, pulling a couple of cars from
the coal shute spur. Mr.. Jenkins did
not see the danger until too late to
avoid the accident He was within
! fifteen feet of the track before aware
of the. approach of the danger. The
auto was making considerable noise
and no alarm from the engine was
heard, neither was the warning shouts
and screams from those seated in the
yards near the crossing heard. Mr..
Jenkins was making frantic efforts
to stop his car or to reverse his en-
| CINE. 1t seemed to those who were
witness to the accident that the car
stopped still on the track just as the
tender crashed into it.
Young Hamilton pushed Mrs. Jenk-
ms from the seat into the road and
tossed Edwin jenkins out. He then
tried to get the baby girl from the
front seat by the father but just then
the crash came and the auto with the
three persons, Mr.. Jenkins, Hamilton
and the baby were mixed up togeth-
er. The locomotive was stopped with
in the distance of fifty feet from the
point of hitting the car. Hamilton
found himself lying between the
wheels Of the tender and the wreck
of the auto and how he escaped ser
ious injury he cannot explain. He
does not remember after the crash
came, what happened or where Jenk-
ms or the baby went. 1t all happened
in the fractional part of a minute and
was all confusion and noise He does
not even know what happened to him
self until he pulled himself out from
the wheels. AS soon as he realized
what had happened and found that
Mr.. Jenkins was under the wheels OF
the engine he made his way to tele-
phone at the viii Grier residence, No.
Col Fifth avenue west.
In the meantime c. NJ. Hibler who
resides on the south side of the street
west of the track, No COZ Fifth ayen-
Ne west, and who had been witness
to the accident, ran to the assistance
of jenkins. He tried to pull him out
from under the wheels but the engine
had to be moved before this could be
accomplished. The body was placed
on cushion at the side of the track
to await the coming of the ambulance
which had been summoned. Mr..
Jenkins was conscious and as soon
as Mr.. Hibler came to him said:
Don't mind me. I'm all right Find
the baby" A faint crying of the
little girl was then heard by a by
stander and a Mr.. Stringfellow crawl.
ed beneath the tender and took the
child from under the forward trucks
The baby was lying on it's face and
did not seem to be much hurt at the
time. 1t was taken to the hospital
in the ambulance with the injured
father
Officer Fred Green was in charge
of the ambulance. He states that
Mr.. Jenkins was conscious to the last
moment. He talked all the way from
the scene OF the accident to the Alb
bolts hospital where the sufferers
were taken. He asked repeatedly for
water. He told the officer that his
engine died as he touched the track
and he could not do a thing to avoid
the accident AS the ambulance ap-
preached the hospital Mr.. Jenkins
said: We'll, boys, I'm goner but |
saved the baby" The spark of life
went out as the injured man was be
ing taken to the operating room.
Coroner Eugene Cheesman took
charge of the body.
Attention to the wounds OF the in
FAINT disclosed a serious hurt on the
head and on the leg. These were
carefully cared for and unless other
injuries are developed later the hurts
are not necessarily fatal
Frank Hamilton after arrived up
town" had attention turned TO his
hurts. An examination was made at
the hospital He received some
scratches about the legs and the body |
is bruised but aside from these and |
the severe nervous shock he has no
serious hurts.
Mrs. tJenkins sustains severe ment- !
al shock She was taken to the /
hospital for examination and later 10 |
her home where she is being cared for /
by friends. The fye year old son I'D /
win received some rough treatment !
in being tumbled from the automobile 1
but he is none the worse to-day.
MIR and Mrs jenkins and children 1