Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-04-15
. KILLED
AS TRAIN.
HITS AUTO
Mrs. Nancy Parisi and Three
Small Children Meet Terrible
Death at Florence; Five
Others Injured.
Dead and Injured

Carmello Rabiolo. 21z months old
infant, instantly killed, 2l24 Laird
street.
Marie Rabiolo, s years old, died few
minutes later.
Sam Rina, 10 years old, instantly
killed, 2l24 Laird street.
Mrs. Nancy Parise, 32 years old, in
stantly killed, ol9 Pacific street.
Injured who will perhaps die are:
Josephine Rabiolo, internal injuries,
right arm fractured, 2l24 Laird street.
Charles Rabiolo, S years old, head
crushed, body lacerated, internal in
juries, 2l24 Laird street.
Alfred Catania. driver of car, back
wrenched, internal injuries. head lac
Grated. Lives at 805 North Eighteenth
street.
Alfred Paridi, abdominal injuries,
back sprained, lives at 6l9 Pacific
street.
Slightly injured:
Sam Rabiolo, father of RaDiolo fam
lily, head cut, lives at 2l24 Laird
street.
Mrs. Nancy Parise and three small
chiidren were killed Sunday afternoon
at the railway crossing near the foot
of Thirtieth street in Florence. wi1er,
a, Ford sedan, carrying nine Italians
was struck by special Northwestern
coal train. Four were seriously in
jured.
HITS CAR IN MIDDLE.
Witnesses declare the cause of the
accident was the failure Of Alfred
Catania, driver of the car, to see the
approaching train. Others declare
Catania made the fatal mistake of
attempting to beat the apparently
slowly moving coal train to the cross
ing.
The train hit the light car squarely
in the middle, carrying it several rods,
dropping the dead on both sides and
underneath its wheels.
Other machines which drew up to
the crossing before Catania arrived,
waited for it to pass, witnesses de-
clare. Ordinarily there is no fagman
stationed at the crossing, which is
at the summit of a grade leading in
to Florence from the high road to the
north. Te.
The accident occurred at 500 p. nj.
Work of Rescue Starts.
Hundreds OF people, who were out
walking during the bright sunny after
noon, were on the scene in moment.
The work OF rescue, the sickening
task of picking up the remnants of
those instantly killed, and the labor
of giving first aid to the injured was
in progress when ambulances arrived
on the scene
The body of Mrs. Nancy Parise
was cut completely in twain across
the breast. Hundreds of people who
flocked about the scene, shuddered
as they gazed at the heartrending
sight of the dead and injured children,
lying about the tracks.
The head of Sam Rabiulo, jr.. 10
years old, was nearly severed from
the body, The body was found
several feet from the automobile.
The infant child OF Sam Rabiolo was
instantly killed. The infant had been
baptised an hour before her
death in St. Anne's Italian church,
Twenty-fourth street and Poppleton
avenue.
Child Dies Soon After.
Marie RobiolJ, six years old, died
shortly after the accident in DR.. A. |
B. Adams home. She received
fractured skull and a broken back. |
The body was taken to Crosby's |
The automobile was thrown several
feet into the air and turned COM
pletely over. One of the doors was
open. The car was struck directly in !
the middle. Apparently, those who
were killed had tried to jump out of
the automobile when they probably
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