ive
In
Near Here
f -*
a
ed install
at 8:05 p. m. wtien their
automobile was struck
by a westbound passen¬
ger train at the New
York Central crossing: or gt&nf*
road, one mile east of Graytown.
The dead are: Gerald Waittpin,
his wife, EJiieen and three ye&r-
old daughter Janet of Genoa; Jo^hn
R (Rudy) Damschroder and his
wife, Antoiiia* Graytown. There,
were no witnesses io the accident, j
according to deputy sheriff Myron f
Hetrick who investigiated.
The car traveling north o*
Stange road waa struck oroasis***
hy Train NO. 4. According fe»
statements given Jjy.Jp.-J« 8mitfe<j
engineer and Wtfilam Thawta*,
e«*Mhteior, tjhe car wsa oft the
trssavi helot* the train couid be
slowed down. -Pigft were no
lights at the croaNftg.
Among the sarly arrmUs at the
crash «citt wm Wm^m ^oach
James S$mth. ICr. IjtaMn who
lives ijrt Gtaytoswh, heard €h« train
jsto$> at tfe* Graytown crossing
and iiwssttg&Uti.
The oar was impaled
front of tt&§ locomotive wWh tM
belies of the two men ?n&-«4«
Bodies 'at* the two woewn asMI th>
ciiiid iNsrs IteiiA aloag the rjmcK,
!be4,w'€fi^ the asane of the cm "
and <3*a|Ptowit.
Ttis i^ii, cart$#$g Ite twisted
wreckage #1 ths aigiiitpiie, final¬
ly caywA ft* a §!&!% m Graytown
wber* m wfsgker was y&i&sed in
pulitag If £*om tjhe tnti* and ex-
tri^a&tag the.' bo^&e* ®Z the men.
Bodies at th0 w«xm*n aad child
were taJta*- to Use Robinson fun-,
ejt-a! tarns after Um crash* Bodies
of the msn wer« tulien &e the Kern
mortuary In EitistOfL One daught¬
er, Mary Ana* i§» survives tfce
W&ngrins*
Mr. Wangilit atUft^WI Harris-
Ektiore school for mas -ar* and
was widely luiown fe Ule com¬
munity >
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