The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-07-18
TWO MEET SERIOUS INJURIES
Car Running at High Rate of Speed
Crashes Into Buggy on the Prairie
Ave. Crossing of Electric Line-other
Victims of Accident to Recover.

Chicago and Milwaukee Electric tail
way at the Prairie avenue crossing Just
before four o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The dead woman is Mrs. Mary Yurik,
aged % Years, the wife of B. Yurik, a
farmer residing on the Silvernail farm
eight miles west of Kenosha. The two
people injured were Mrs. Josephine
Mischula, sister of the dead woman,
and Alexander Mikulcik, the young
man who was driving the vehicle in
which the women were riding The
man and woman injured are at the
Kenosha hospital and they are recov-
ering from their injuries. Both were
seriously injured and on Sunday even
ing it was feared that the man would
die, but this morning it is declared
that both are out of danger.
The remains of Mrs. Yurik were re-
moved to the coroner's morgue Sunday
evening and an inquest into the death
OF the woman will be held this evening.
The accident with it's fatal termina-
ton caused great excitement in Keno
sha on Sunday evening and it was gen
orally reported about the city that the
three people had all died from their
injuries.
Mrs. Yurik and her companions had
come to Kenosha Sunday morning to at
tend church services at st. George
church and after spending the day with
relatives in the city they had started
for their home west of the city just
before four O'Clock. They were driv-
ing on Prairie avenue when the inter
urban train came from the north run
ming at a high rate of speed. The in
jured members of the party are unable
to explain the accident more than to
declare that they did NOT The car
coming in time to stop the horse.
When the car struck the top buggy it
was directly in the center of The track.
The horse had managed to get over the
track and the car came down On the
buggy with such an impact that the
horse was released and he escaped with
out any injury. The buggy was broken
to kindlingwood and portions of it were
carried down the track for distance
of more than a hundred yards. When
the car struck the buggy the driver was
thrown from the vehicle in such man
ner that he struck the signal post at
the crossing and he struck with such
violence that the post was shattered.
The two women were carried down the
track and picked up more than humid
red feet from the crossing. All three
of the occupants of the buggy were I'M
conscious when they were picked up,
but later Mikulcik regained conscious
ness. The residence Of John Kreuser
lust west of the track on Prairie
avenue was converted into an emer-
gency hospital and the injured people
were removed to this house.
Efforts were made to secure ambul-
ances to take them to the hospital, but
both ambulances were~fn service and
the police ambulance was used. It was
necessary to make two trips with the
police ambulance to take Mrs. Yurik
and Mikulcik to the hospital and the
other woman was taken down in an
automobile Mrs. Yurik was placed on
the operating table as soon as the hos
pital was reached, but she died few
minutes later. She had been terribly
injured. The pelvis had been broken
and the entire side OF the woman's jaw
had been torn away. Physicians stat
ed that she died from the shock of
the accident.
A few minutes after the injured peo-
pie had been taken to the hospital their
friends hurried to the institution and
identified them. Before six O'Clock
both the man and woman injured had
regained consciousness and their recoV-
cry was steady.
There were more than twenty pas
senpers on board the car when the bug
gy was struck and these people were
given a bad shaking up. 1t was de-
clared that several of them sustained
slight bruises, but none Of them left
the car at Kencsha and outside Of the
fright they were not injured. All of
them continued the trip. The police
officers held the car at the Prairie
avenue crossing until after an examina-
ton had been made. Members of the
train crew declared that they had given
every possible warning at approaching
the crossing, but some people who wit
messed the accident, declare that the
signal gong was not ringing. The car
was stopped just south of Prairie
avenue and after the car had sbeen
stopped the gong was ringing.
It was at first reported that the horse
attached to the buggy had been fright