The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-18
SAW ACCIDENT:
Is FRUSTRATED
Mrs. Chas. Gruis, Pomeroy
Tragedy Witness, I'm
able to Testify.
RETURN NO VERDICT

After having been confined to her
bed for weeks Mrs. Charles Gruis, 961
South Fremont avenue, on the after
noon of Monday, Dec. s, was allowed
by her physician to leave her bed for
the first time and to go out for walk.
Just as she left the front door of her
home Mrs. Grus saw southbound Chi
and Northwestern passenger train
strike Albinus Pomeroy, 83, who lived
at 1912 South Sheridan road, injuring
him so seriously that he died that eve
ming at the Kenosha hospital. The
shock of seeing the tragedy was so
great that Mrs. Gruis was forced to re-
turn to her bed and she now lies i'll Of
nervous prostration at her home from
which she will not fully recover for
a week or ten days, according to ply
sicians. Mrs. Gruis was the only eye
witness to the accident, and when the
coroner's inquest was called by Act
ing John Slater for Friday afternoon
Mrs. Gruis was unable to testify. 1t
was thought at first that the jury would
visit Mrs. Gruis at her home and there
hear her story of the accident, but this,
physicians said, would so excite her
as to make her condition still more
serious.
At the inquest, which was held in
the municipal courtroom Friday after
noon, the testimony of several per-
sons was taken in an effort to get a
picture of the details of the, accident
before the coroner's jury and the court.
Was Walking on Tracks.
F. A. Isenhart, locomotive fireman
on the train, testified that on the after
noon of the accident he first saw
Pomeroy walking in a southwesterly
direction on the right of-way of the
railroad when the locomotive was with
in so feet from the crossing. The aged
man appeared to be walking slowly
with the aid of a cane, and seemed to
pay no attention to the warning whis-
tie sounded by the engine and the
whistle of the fagman on the cross
ing at Sheridan road. The train was
travelling at a speed of 80 miles an
hour at the time Pomeroy was struck
by the pilot beam Of the locomotive
and thrown to the ground with such
force as to infiict a deep fracture on
the left side of the skull from which
injury he later died.
The fagman, Ross Bruno, told the
jury that Pomeroy must have heard
the warnings given him unless he was
deaf and that he seemed to disregard
them.
DR.. H. A. Robinson, who was called
to attend the injured man at the Ke-
nosha hospital shortly after the acci-
dent, described the injuries. Pomeroy
suffered a crushed right arm, he said,
and the cause of death was o concus-
sion of the brain resulting from a frac-
ture of the skull. When the physician
arrived at the hospital Pomeroy was
unconscious and he never regained
consciousness before his death some 8
hours later.
Son Testifes.
w. E. Pomeroy, Beaver Dam, Wis,
testified that his father was in per-
feet condition as far as his health was
concerned. He was extremely we'll
preserved for his age, he said. While
his hearing was all right in close con-
seIvation, the son declared that he was
slightly deaf, and this may have ac-
counted for the fact that the deceased
might not have heard the warnings of
the locomotive and probably never
knew what struck him.
With the testimony Of the 'only
other eyewitness missing, Acting Cor
oner Slater ordered the inquest ad-
journed at this point until Dec. 80, at
which time it is hoped that the testi-
mony of Mrs. Gruis will be heard.