The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-30
.JRAINMEN HELD NOT LIABLE
Anthony Czarkowski, Fred B. Prott
and Fred Metten Meet Fatal Injuries
Accident Causes Profound sensa-
ton In the City.

three Kenosha men were killed just
after one o'clock Sunday afternoon
when Ford automobile being driven
at high rate of speed collided with
"a south bound limited train of the Chi
cago and Milwaukee Electric railway
at the Burlington road crossing. The
dead
Fred Metten, aged "a years, unmar-
lried, son of Henry Metten, 271 Division
street.
4 Fred B. Profit, aged % years, son of
Anthony Profit, 1862 Division street.
Married and leaves widow and two
children.
Anthony Czarkowski (better known
as "Tony Sharkey'' aged 81 years, son
of John Czarkowsl1i, 273 North Chicago
street, unmarried.
Czarkowski and Profit were instantly
killed. Metten was still alive when his
mangled form was picked up along the
tracks nearly five hundred feet from
| the crossing where the accident took
Fplace. AS soon as possible an ambu-
lance was summoned and he was placed
In it and an effort to reach the hospital
was made Metten died just as the
ambulance turned into Milwaukee ave-
niue.
The details of the fatal story must
be gathered from the story Of W. A.
Marcy, BIG West 18th street, Racine,
who was the motorman in charge of the
car as he was probably the only person
who witnessed it in all its horrible de-
tails Marcy and the conductor in
charge of the car, w. o. Girard, resid-
ing at 903 First avenue, Milwaukee,
were detained by the sheriff after the
accident.
The limited train was coming from
the north and running at rate prob
ably close to fifty miles an hour and
the little automobile was running west
on the narrow concrete road and with
a road free of vehicles on account of the
bad weather it was admitted that it
was running at high rate Of speed.
The warning signal bell at the crossing
was changing out a message of danger
and Marcy declares that he sounded his
whistle more than dozen times before
lhe reached the crossing. Just as the
heavy electric car was in the very cen
ter OF the crossing the automobile crash
ed into it with great violence. In some
way or other part of the front of the
automobile went under the front step of
the car striking the cast iron pipe
which supplied air for the air brake
system 1t was broken off like a pipe
stem. Motorman Marcy applied the air
brakes but it failed to work He then
put on the REVERSE" but before the
car could be stopped it had dragged the
wrecked automobile along the track for
distance of close to nine hundred feet.
Marcy closed his eyes as the crash came
but he saw the bodies of the three men
hurled from the automobile as it was
dragged along the tracks
When the car was finally stopped the
automobile was pile of twisted steel
and splintered wood. The passengers
in the car, twenty-six in all, had been
thrown from their seats by the violence
of the collision and several Of them sus-
tanned slight bruises. 1t was declared
that none of them were seriously hurt
and after the blood smeared car had
been pulled into the Kenosha station
1t was put on side track and abandon
ed and the trainmen went with Under
Sheriff A. l.. Fries to the county jail
The passengers were willing to con-
tinue their trip and they were placed
aboard the next south bound car.
Just as soon as the car was stopped,
Girard and Marcy and members of the
party of passengers hurried back to find
the injured and dead. Metten was the
first to be found. He was lying in a
pool of blood few feet from the side
of the tracks and more than four hgn-
bred feet south of the crossing. He
was terribly injured but still alive.
Members of the party hurried to call
an ambulance. DIR. j. H. Holm. who
had been hunting in the neighborhood.
was one of the first people to reach the
scene of the accident. He assisted in
placing Metten in the police ambulance
and started to the Kenosha hospital
with him. It was hopeless as Metten
had a fractured skull and broken arm
and leg and his whole body was crush
ed He died in the speeding ambulance
without showing any signs of conscious
ness, The body of CzarIowski was
found about seventy-fve feet Of the
crossing His skull was fractured and
he had half dozen bones in his body
broken. The body Of Profit Law within
fifty feet of the fatal crossing. Like
the others it was terribly broken and
blood flowed freely from a great wound
in the skull. The body of Profit was
taken to the Hansen morgue and that
Ct Czarkowski to the Rutledge and