The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-26
ANOTHER CAR DRIVER
KILLED AT CROSSING
Joseph Rutkowslxi Dies at Midnight Following
Accident When His Car is Struck by
Train at Garden Street.
OTHERS PERHAPS FATALLY HURT
PERHAPS FATALLY !
RELATIONSHIPS Boy and Brother n-Law Grizzlies Ruczyk
and Son of Racine, All Injured-FIagmen Say
Driver Ignored Frantic Signals.


day evening at $3.50 o'clock at the
Garden street crossing of the Chicago
and Northwestern railway, one man
lies dead this morning, another seri-
ously hurt and two boys perhaps ia
tally injured.
The dead:
Joseph Rutkowski, SO, 45O JENNIE
street.
The injured:
John Rutkowski, his son, age 10.
Grizzlies Ruczyk, 1920 Center street,
Racine.
Albert Ruczyk, his son, age ..
Struck by Freight Train
Rutkowski was driving his Cleve-
land sedan going east on Garden
street, with the three other passen-
gers in the car, when it was struck
by the engine Of a northbound extra
freight train coming along the west
passenger tracks. The train was go
ing slowly, about ten or fifteen miles
an hour and it came to stop within
fifteen car lengths after striking the
automobile, and rolling it between the
tracks.
A call for the police ambulance was
sent in by the railway men, who also
summoned Drs. Robinson and Swart-
bout. Assistant Chief Cyzak was
alone at headquarters when the call
for the ambulance came, as the rest
of the staff were out raiding. He
sent out the ambulance with Police
Officers Pecan and Tusler in charge,
and summoned Drs. McCluskey and
Christofferson
Find Mangled Bodies.
The police officers found the body
of one man lying between the north
bound and southbound tracks, another
lay upon the siding. The two injured
boys had been picked up in tender
arms awaiting the ambulance. 1t was
Boy Scout who picked up one of the
injured lads, and he carried the body
dripping with blood as it was, right
into the ambulance. The police had
no time in the midst of the hurry Of
getting away the injured to get the
Boy Scouts name, but his act was re-
membered. Later it was learned that
it was James Scaffa of Troop of 161
Brockett street. He CHANGED to be
at the railway station when the acci-
dent happened and hurried over in an
effort to give first aid
Alvin Reinsdorf, 124 Third street,
was an aid. He had picked up the
other boys body, placed it in the am
bulance, and with James accompanied
the bodies to the hospital. helping to
hold them on the seat.
For the police officers, not aware
that second ambulance had been
Communicated and was on the way,
fastened to get all the injured per-
sons into the one ambulance and en-
route to st. GATHERINGS hospital
Women Are Hysterical.
Meanwhile at the Rutkowski saloon
at AGO Jenne street, the two women
who had been left behind, Mrs. Rut-
kowski and Mrs. Ruczyk became aware
as they saw the crowd collecting
around the railroad station within a
stones throw away, that something
untoward had happened Joe and his
brother-in-law, Ruczyk, and the two
boys had just been gone few min
utes, and were expected back each in
slant as the Racine party were to
leave for their home. Mrs. Rutkowski
sent her little girl over to the sta
ton to see what was the matter, and
the child returned saying that Papa
was lying on the tracks"
The women, crazed by grief, crowd
cd about the ambulance and tried to
scramble into the vehicle with its
bruised and mangled bodies already
full to capacity, and it was part of
the difficult work of the officers TO
get them out in order that the ambu-
lance might get to the hospital as
quickly as possible.
Little hope was expressed at the
hospital when the physicians attend
ed the victims. Rutkowski was suf-
fering from a fractured skull; he died
shortly after midnight. The body was
removed to Crossin's mortuary.
Ruczyk's right leg was hanging by
a thread, and his left leg was frac-
cured, and his head badly cut. It was
necessary to amputate the right leg.
Tohn Rutkowski, the ten-year-old boy,
has a fractured right leg, scalp
wound and numerous other cuts, and
The other boy was badly cut in the
aead.
The condition of all three was bet
,er this morning than had been ex-
oected, and hope was held out for
heir recovery.
The engineer of the freight train
vas K Steinman of Racine, Conductor,
George Layton Of Milwaukee. John
(. Caden, 1928 North Congress street,
vas fagman at the east side of the
crossing and David Samson the flag
nan at the west side Of the crossing.
Both fagmen said that they tried to
prevent the sedan from going acr ,ss
he tracks, tagging with their Ian
.erns persistently but that the car
sept on going, as if the driver were
unaware of or indifferent to their sig
RAILS.
Rutkowski was we'll known in sa-
oonkeeper circles here. He had just
purchased the premises at 900 Park
street, sometimes called "the fat
ron"