Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-01-02
KILLED when
TRAIN STRIKES
AUTO ON ROAD
One Entire Family Included
In List of Dead at Cade,
Louisiana, Sunday

BEAUMONT, Texas. Jan. q
Five persons were killed, four al
most instantly, when Southern Pa
cific train No. l01. westbound. struck
an automobile ut grade crossing
al Cade, La, about $50 o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
An entire family was included in
the list Of dead.
The automobile party j. under
stood to have been returning from
st. Martinsville, La, where they
spent the day camping, to their
homes near Abbeville. There were
no eyewitness, and details are
lacking.
The dead are all of Abbeville.
and include i. Skelly, 27; Mrs.
Skelly. -; Meiba Skelly, months;
Lucille Skclly, 16 months, and Isa-
dorr Moryant, 81
WACO, Texas, Jan. 2.-Leonard
Hill, 20, was killed and five other
persons were injured when two au-
tomobilcS crashed together at
street crossing here at o'clock Sun
day morning. Carey Dawson, driver
of one of the cars, u being held i'll
jail pending an investigation Of the
accident By Assistant County Attor-
ney q. II. Machen.
3. VI. Wilson. who was in the car
with Dawson, was arrested and
charged with speeding. but is out on
a $50 bond. Miss lone Notsberger
of Terrell, who was in the car with
the two men, is in sanitarium suf-
| lering from severe bruises.
George L. Hill, brother Of the
dead man. and Ralph Kniseley were
in the car with Leonard Hill. Both
are III a sanitarium Hill il suffer
/ ing from u fractured hip and in
tcrnal injuries. while kniscley j.
only slightly bruised.
/ Both automobiles were complete
v IN demolished Pieces Of the lighter
I car, in which the three men were rid
/ ing. were scattered for 100 feet
a'org the street.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. Jan. Mrs
Mary Jacobs was instantly killed and
Brett Mckay Of Earle, Ark, and
" Hamlin Sellers Of Memphis. were
seriously injured early Sunday morn
ing when their automobile collidcd
with another car about three miles
from the city. Sellers injuries may
prove fatal, il was said.
WICHITA. Kan. Jan. 2.-Thomas
II. Hartin, AZ. master mechanic for
the Wichita Railroad and Light com
pany was killed; Albert ID. McElwee.
Is. auditor for the same company.
was probably fatally in prod. ana
when the car III which they were rid
ing overturned after side-swiping
another car five miles south Of here
Sunday. Hartin moved TO Wichita
about year ago from TeXarkana
He l. survived by his widow. now in
I'll Paso, and a 2-year-old daughter.
The men were returning 10 Wichita
from a two days hunt when the ac.
cidert occurred.
ST LOUIS, Jan. 2.-Th7ee per
sons are dead and two are seriously
injured "a the result of automobile
land street car accidents here New
Years day The dead, Mrs. Elizabeth
Duuaawald. age ~, was struck by
a taXicab: Otto +. Lusius, aged 35,
was struck by a street car; William
Norton. 2G. was struck by street
car and died after amputation Of
his right lcg. Two special Officers.
William Marshall, 80, and Albert
White, %. suffered fractures and
bruises when they were run down
by an automobile load Of New Years
rCvelers.
CHICAGO. Jan. 2.-Nine men
and five women were injured, two
of them seriously. when three auto
mobiles collided here Sunday. Her
man Applegate, manufactures.
,va. arrested Nv cLarpps Of driving