The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-13
Three KILLED
when train
STRIKES AUTO
Four Injured at S. Arlington
Ave. Crossing by Pennsy
Railroad Filler.
ANOTHER NEAR DEATH
Lives of Mother and Baby
Son Lost When Machine
Is Demolished.

Three of the seven passengers IN a
Ford touring car were killed and all
the others injured, two critically,
when 1.-THE American" crack Penn
sylvania Railroad New York-to-St.
Louis f1ier, crashed into the auto at
the S. Arlington Ave. Pennsylvania
crossing today.
The dead;
MRS. GoLDIE ROTH, %, 5127 N.
Arsenal Ave.
JUNIOR ROTH, 3, her son.
EUGENE KELLER, 6, 4720 Caro-
line Ave.
The injured:
Mrs. Erma Harden, 5151 N.
Arsenal Ave.
Serena Harden. Is, right arm
broken, head and leg cuts; con-
dition critical.
Lester w. Harden, II, possible
skull fracture; condition critical.
Mrs. Catherine Keller, 81, 472O
Caroline Ave-, mother Of Eugene,
body INJURIES.
Mrs. Keller, least seriously in
jured, was driving the auto south on
Arlington Ave.
Tries to Save Son
She saw the train approaching
when a short distance from the
crossing and tried desperately to
stop, she told police.
The machine stopped on the track
directly in front of the approaching
flier, she said, and she made final
effort to save her son, who was rid
ing in the front seat with her.
"I grabbed for my baby, hoping
I could throw him out of the way,
and just then the train struck. God
knows what grabbed when !
reached for him." she said.
The auto was carried seventy five
feet by the crash and demolished.
The train stopped within 300 feet.
The bodies and the injured were
hurled out Of the machine along
the track.
Carries Children to Porch
Edgar York, $50 S. Berry Ave,
saw the crash and carried Eugene
Keller and Serena Harden to the.
porch of R. E. Newly, 201 S. Arsenal
Ave.
Eugene Keller died on the way to
city hospital.
Mrs. Roth and her 3-year- old son,
who had been sitting in the back
seat of the car with Mrs. Harden
and her daughter, Serena, were
killed instantly.
DR.. j. K. Kingsbury, 5462 E.
Washington ST., administered first
aid to the Injured, before they were
taken to city hospital.
Mrs. o. j. BauermeiSter, 156 S.
Arlington Ave, whose home is at
the northwest corner of the cross
ing, was sitting on her front porch
and saw a pocketbook and one of
the autos tires light in her front
yard.
The American, west-bound was
due at Union Station here at 1882
and the crash occurred a few min
utes before 1880.
Crossing View Clear
w. D. Smith was, engineer of the
train and j. E. Stevenson, both of
Columbus, Ohio, was conductor.
The crossing is not particularly
obscured, police said.
Mrs. Keller declared that the
train did not sound its whistle and
that she saw no warning light at
the crossing, police said.
The crossing is protected by a
light, which flashes off and on at
the approach of a train, but it is
difficult to see the light in the
bright sunlight, police pointed out.
Ray Holland, 26O S: Arsenal Ave-,
who said he was a railroad signal
maintenance man, inspected the
light soon after the accident, and
told police it was in operation.
Mrs. Keller and Mrs. Harden are
sisters. With the children they
were on their way to visit another
sister, Mrs. Ruth Sumnes, living
southeast of the city.