The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-09
CAUGHT At SALEM AVENUE
Electric Car Running at High Rate of
Speed Hurls Automobile Into Ditch
Victim of Accident Died Shortly
After Reaching the Hospital.
From TUESDAYS Daily

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G. Schulze Music Store on Main street
and long prominent in the piano and
musical instrument business in Keno
sha, was fatally injured just after
eight 'clock this morning when an
automobile in which he was riding was
struck by north bound Chicago and
Milwaukee Electric train at the Salem
avenue crossing Mr.. Shulze died an
hour and half later at the Kenosha
hospital without regaining conscious
ness. His head had been crushed
in the collision.
Half an hour after the accident
Chief of Police O'Hare ordered the
Milwaukee police to arrest and hold
in Milwaukee the members of the crew
in charge Of the electric car pending
the result of an inquest.
The fatal injuries to Mr.. Schulze
caused great sorrow in the city and
the news that he had met death in
the crossing accident spread like wild
fire about the city.
There were many witnesses of the
collision with the fatal termination
and witnesses agree that the electric
car was coming from the south at
very high rate of speed. Schulze was
riding in Ford runabout. Just after
eight 'clock this morning Mr.. Schulze
had loaded a piano into a motor truck
with the understanding that it was to
be delivered to family residing in
the town of Salem. There were
number of pieces of music and piano
scarf which were to have been taken
with the piano and just after eight
O'Clock Schulze noticed that these had
been forgotten by the men in charge
of the truck. He gathered them up
and took the small automobile and rode
out to overtake the truck. He had
overtaken the men with the piano and
was making his return trip to Kenosha
when the accident occurred. The Sa-
lem avenue crossing, always danger
Gus one, was particularly dangerous
this morning as the sewer contractors
in charge of work at this point had
erected number Of derricks near the
crossing and these almost totally OBJ
scrued the vision of any one coming
up from the west. That made it just
as difficult for any one on an electric
car to see an approaching automobile.
Notwithstanding this fact there had
been no let up in the speed of cars
running into the city and the car
which struck the Schulze automobile
must have been running at a very high
rate Of speed as after the accident it
ran more than four hundred feet before
the motorman could bring it to stop.
Schulze had run his little automobile
on the tracks Of the company and had
nearly cleared the crossing when the
crash came. The car struck the rear
portion of the automobile and turned
it directly round, throwing it into the
ditch There must have been great
force in the collision as the automo-
bile was hurled over against a tele-
phone pole east of the track with such
force that the telephone pole was
broken. Schu1ze was thrown from the
automobile and he lay against fence
some fifteen feet east and north of
the tracks.
Report Of the accident was sent to
the police department and Officers
Clausen and McGivern went out with
the police ambulance. Schulze was I'M
conscious and his head and face were
terribly mangled. When the police
reached the scene of the accident the
members Of the train crew were wait
ing, but they were not arrested.
Schulze was placed in the ambulance
and hurried to the Kenosha hospital.
DR.. H. A. Robinson, surgeon of the
company, had been notified of the ac-
cident and the injured man was taken
directly to the operating room and eff
forts made to save his life. It was
hopeless from the start as it was seen
that his skull had been fractured.
When the police returned to the
scene of the accident the car with the
crew still in charge had left for Mil
waukee and orders for the arrest of the
men were hurriedly sent to Milwaukee.
Alderman Goodman, chairman of the
transportation committee of the coun-
Gil, was on the scene of the accident a
few minutes after the collision and he
at once gave orders to the police to ar
rest every train crew bringing a car
into Kenosha faster than twelve miles
an hour.
There was no chance to make any
operation to prolong the life of the
victim of the accident and he died just
after half past nine o'clock. Members
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