The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-30

MeCten was taken TO the mischief
morgue. Coroner Fl. c. Millager, Sheriff
A. f. Stahl and Chief Of Police Owen
O Hare were at the scene Of the acct
dent before the dead bodies were picked
up and sent to the morgue.
The sheriff then permitted the train
men to run the electric car into Keno
sha but insisted that they remain in
custody of the deputy until after they
had chance to tell their story to the
district attorney.
AS near as can be learned Czarkowski,
who is employed at the bottling plant
of the Pabst Brewing company had in
vited three Of his friends to take ride.
No permission had been given him to
use the car which was the same one
which had been Indirectly responsible
for the fatal accident which resulted in
the death of John j. Mayer on MilWau
kee avenue a week ago last Friday.
The members Of the party in the auto
mobile had also included William Wag-
ner, another employee of the brewing
company, but he had jumped off the
car at the corner of Division street and
Racine avenue. Wagner declared that
he did not know where the young men
had planned to 90, but intimated that
they were just out for ride and had
planned to return in a short time. The
men drove west along the Burlington
road and when they passed the Ortiz
saloon less than two hundred yards from
where the crash came they were going
at good rate of speed. The rest must
be gathered from the story Of Marcy.
III never saw them at all until they
crashed into the car, said Marcy. We
had left Milwaukee at 1850 and we
were running along on schedule time,
so it must have been about LES when
we reached the Burlington road cross
ing. I had sounded the whistle many
times in approaching the crossing. The
bell at the crossing is worked automatic
ally and 1T is turned on when the car is
thousand feet from the crossing. The
crash came when / was in the middle
of the crossing I made an attempt to
apply the air but the brake did not
work and then ! reversed the power.
The automobile was being dragged
along the side of the car and / could
not see the men thrown out. 1t all came
so quickly that there was no chance for
me to see anything
After the car was stopped the train
men went back and they found the
broken portion of the air brake pipe
lying close to the center of the cross
ing and it is thought that it was brok-
EN- off just as the cars crashed togeth
er. Conductor Girard declared that he
did not see the accident as he was not
sitting in that portion of the car. When
he felt the jar of the train he started
to investigate and his story was prac-
Itically the same as that of the motor
man. A colored barber from Chicago,
who gave his name as Cotton de-
Iclared that he did not hear the whistle
sounded. He made this statement to
the sheriff after the accident and he
will probably be brought to Kenosha
to appear as witness at the inquest.
Both Marcy and Girard are experience
ed men in the operation of electric cars
and they have been employed by the
company for a long time. 1t was an
accident from our stand
point, was the manner in which Mar
cy summed up the case.
That the warning bell at the cross
ing was in perfect order was shown by
the fact that it was ringing a few
minutes after the accident when car
coming from the opposite direction
passed the fatal crossing
The story of the fatal accident
spread like wild fire throughout the
city and before the dead bodies had
been removed the road to the north of
the city was literally filled with auto
mobiles. Thousands of curious people
went out to look at the scene of the
accident and there were many narrow
escapes from accidents along the road.
The men and women and even children
walked along the tracks to the place
where the ruined automobile had been
thrown into the ditch at the side Of
the tracks
1t is said that one man saw the ac-
cident from the roadway to the east
of the crossing and he is being sought.
After the accident District Attorney
Drury and the sheriff and chief Of po-
lice went out and made complete in
vestigation of the scene of the acct
dent and with the trainmen they later
went to the yards of the company on
Elizabeth street and saw the car which
had struck the automobile.
After making the fullest possible
examination District Attorney Drury
ordered the train men released on Sun
day evening The battered car had
been taken to Waukegan, but on the
orders of the district attorney it was
promptly brought back to Kenosha for
the examination of the officials.
GIVE are convinced, said District
Attorney Drury, that there was no