Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-11-12
TRAGIC FATE OF Mr.. LOUIS WINTERT0N.

On last Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. ). A.
Winterton, of Cypress Grove pIanta-
ton, were called on wire to Lake Charles,
La, to the bedside of their son, MIR.
Louis Winterten, who had been seriously
injured in rail road accident ON the
previous day Mr.. and Mrs. Winterton
were joined II, st. Joseph by their yonng-
or son, Mr.. Lester Win,erion, ami they
reached Lake Charles Monday, just be-
fore death relieved tliier son of his suffer
ing.
Louis Winterton, was % years al age
AMI was IA very bright and Industrious
young man aud give promise Of uselui
lie and his sudden taking at the thresh-
| I'D Of young manhood is a blow not only
"a his devoted parents and family but to
pur entire people, with whom he was
great favorite and who saw in him
strong character, high-calss man and
= 'od citizen.
The sympathy OF our entire parish goes
out To the grie!-stricken ones in their sor-
frow, and comfort is found only in the
belief that his sudden taking was but the
fiat of fate, his usefulness having attained
the end for which he was created, and an
Inscrutible Providence, in His Divine
Wisdom. saw fit to call him Home.
The following story If the unfortunate
accident j. taken from the Lake Charles
Amrrican-press of saturday:
Three men are dead, and four others
are in st. Patrick's Sanatarium here with
injuries that may terminate fatally, AZ
the result Of collision on tram road
six miles west Of I.ongvlle early this
morning. They are:
Dead. b. Hart, section foreman,
Walter Platte, Charles Sharp.
Injured Charles Perrenaud, Lem Cole,
Louis Winterton, II. n. Guidry.
\ dense fog that ol,scured the vision of
those concerned in the collision was the
direct ca,i-e of the tragedy. Shortly after
80 o'co.s this morning a motor section
car belonging TO the Longvile Lumber
Company was flying westward along the
tram road through the woods, when it
came unexpectedly on Il log train back
ing in the opposite direction.
SO snl,ien was the meeting that the
men Cd the motor ear did not have
chance to leap before the crash came.
Driving into the caboose Of the train at
rapid rate Of speed, the men were sent
flying ii al. directions, some under the
wheels OF the train, and others into the
ditch along side the track.
The train, which consisted of switch
engine, one ear and a caboOse, was trav-
cling about ten miles an hour at the time
according to the engineer. The train was
not derailed and none of the train crew
was injured.
As quickly as possible the seven men
who had composed the section gang were
loaded in the caboose and rushed to
Longville. Pending the arrival of spec
ial train to convey them to Lake Charles,
their injuries we're attended to by DIR. M.
F. Baxter of Longville.
Charles Sharp, one Of the most serious
ly injured men, died about an hour after
the accident, before the arrival of the
special train. The other six men were
placed on board, and rushed to this city,
but c. b. Hart and Walter Platte died
en- route.
Ambulances were waiting for the train
at the Southern Pacific depot when it
arrived with the injured, and a number
of employees OF the Longville Lumber
Company. The men were hurried to the
Sanitarum. when the operating room
had been gotten i'm readiness and corps