The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-20
FAMILY OF FOUR
CAUGHT in CRASH
Mrs. Ada Schwartz Badly
Injured When Train
Hits Car.
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE
Morris Schwartz and Two Chill
dren Also Caught in
the Wreckage.

An entire family Of Kenoshans
firted with death Tuesday night just
after nine O'Clock when the automo-
bile in which Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Schwartz and their two children,l
David, IA, and Bessie, II, was struck |
by a switching freight train at the
Third street crossing of the Kenosha |
division line of the Chicago and
Northwestern railway.
The automobile was badly crushed /
by the force of the impact and was
pushed several yards along the track
before the train was halted. The oc-
cupants of the car remained in it and
were dragged along with the wreckage
to be pulled out of it by the members
of the train crew. All four were inn |
mediately hurried to the Kenosha
hospital in the police ambulance.
Mrs. Schwartz was the most seri-
ously injured. She received a long
deep cut in the forehead, which it
was feared at first. might have caused
slight fracture of the skull; her
condition this morning is more favor
able and physicians believe she is out
of danger. David, the son, was also
badly cut about the face and shoulders
but not critically hurt.
Morris Schwartz, the driver Of the
lear, escaped with only slight bruises
ard cuts; Bessie, the daughter, suf-
fered only the shock incident TO such
an accident. Those who saw the
accident maintain that their escape
from instant death was little short
Of the miraculous.
Schwartz was driving south on Third
street when the accident occurred.
The switching train was line of box
cars being pushed by a freight en-
CINE: the autom obile was struck by
the box car on the end Of the train.
The crossing is known as an unpro-
tected crossing; having neither gates
nor Waterman. On the end of the
switching train as It approached the
crossing was William Diedert,
brakeman, who had lighted lantern.
He maintains that he screamed at the
occupants Of the car in an effort to
avert the accident and swung the
lantern but that he could not at
tract the drivers attention to warn
him of the danger.
/ Police Ambulance Called.
When the box car struck the auto
mobile. the wheels of the latter
crumbled and the sedan crumpled
under the bumper of the box car and
was pushed ahead of it. The. train
was moving only at slow rate and
was halted within few yards.
4 The police ambulance was summoned
to the scene, Police officers Tusler
and Ferske answering the call. When
they, reached the scene, the train
crew had taken the injured persons
out of the wreckage and all were await
ing the arrival Of the ambulance.
Mrs. Schwartz, though badly injured
was not unconscious. 81 am cold, so
cold" she kept saying as she was
being rushed to the hospital. Quick
work on the part of physicians and
hospital attendants in treating her
injuries probably saved her life.
Make Complete Investigation.
A complete investigation into the
accident was being made both by the
police and by railway officials. There
appear to be few witnesses of the
accident except members Of the train
crew. Schwartz was so dazed after
the accident that he could give no
account of his version of the crash;
this will probably be secured later.
The automobile was completely
wrecked; when the wheels crumpled
under it because Of the force OF the
crash, it was dragged on its side for
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