The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Monday August 11 1919
TWO KILLED INSTANTLY, FOUR SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, 44, cut to pieces, and Daughter, Aurelia, 14, Instantly Slain.
The Fatal Collision Occurred at Canton
Two Other Young Children Seriously Injured and May Die, and Two Others Suffer Slight Wounds.
Marietta, Ga., August 10.--(Special)--Two were instantly killed, two more may die any time, and two others, all of the same family, are seriously injured as the result of an auto collision with a Louisville and Nashville train at Canton this morning at 10 o'clock. The deat are: Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, age 44, instantly killed and cut to pieces. Aurelia Westbrooks, age 14, instantly killed and also badly mangled. The seriously injured are: Minnie Westbrooks, 12, depressed fracture of skull, has been operated on and skull raised but may die at any time. Hubert Westbrook, 7 years old, had wounds about head and internal injuries. The slightly injured are: Newton Westbrooks, 17, driver of the car, cuts about body and head. Glenn westbrooks, 19, scalp wounds.
DID NOT SEE TRAIN
The mother and the five children were going to Lathamtown, ten miles from Canton, this morning just after the 9:40 train was due at the latter place. They evidently did not see the train until they were directly on the tracks, when they were seen to stop the car dead still. It is stated that a high bank prevented either the driver of the engine or of the auto from seeing each other, The train hit the car squarely and hurled it about 100 feet, mangling and killing the mother and one of the daughters.
The son, who was driving, says that he knew that a train was due there at about that time but he thought it had already passed.
The engine which struck the car was immediately uncoupled from the rest of the train and the injured placed on cots and rushed back to Marietta to a local sanitarium, reaching here about 12:20 o'clock.
TO VISIT FATHER
The Westbrooks have a farm in the eastern part of Cherokee county, about twelve miles from Waleska, During the past year they had moved to Waleska in order that the children might attend Rheinhart college at that place. During this crop season the father was remaining on his farm and this morning the mother and her five children started off in their auto to the farm, planning to take their dinner there and bring the father home.
They had to make the trip by the way of Canton and it was there that the accident took place. The Road to Canton, going north, just after crossing the Hiawassee river, comes immediately on the railroad, which crosses the road from a blind on either side. It is presumed, and is evident, that the Westbrooks failed to see the train until they were on the crossing, and the driver, in his excitement, stopped the auto instead of going on across.
GREWSOME SCENE
According to reports of the sensational event from Canton, a great crowd immediately gathered at the scene of the accident in order to render all aid possible to the injured. A half dozen women are said to have fainted at the sight of the bloody scene, and one man completely collapsed during the course of the removal of the bodies to a box car, in which they were rushed to the Marietta Sanitarium. When the father was notified of the catastrophe, he made a record run to the scene in an automobile, and his object suffering at the sight of his bloody and mangled family was sufficient to play on the heart-strings of the great gathering of sympathetic friends.
The bodies of Mrs. Westbrooks and her slain daughter were detained at Canton and taken to a local undertaking shop for burial later.
FAMILY PROMINENT
The family is one of the more successful and popular ones of Cherokee county, and there has been a constant stream of friends and relatives coming to Marietta in automobiles today to inquire of their condition and to offer any possible assistance. The engineer is said to have seen the auto balk at the crossing, but was unable to stop the train before the accident occurred. No blame has been attached to him in any way in connection with the accident.
CHILD CRITICALLY INJURED
Of those who are injured and are at the local sanitarium, Minnie Westbrooks is the more seriously injured and may die at any moment because of a very serious fracture of the skull. An operation was performed and the ___ ____ so as to remove the pressure on the brain, but the success of the operation is still uncertain.
unreadable, unconscious for many hours following the accident. Unreadable paragraph.
Glenn Westbrooks also has (unreadable) wounds, but they are not serious.
Newton Westbrooks, the driver, is the least injured of the six who were in the car, and never lost consciousness.
The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Tuesday August 12 1919
FATAL CRASH TO CLAIM STILL ANOTHER VICTIM
LITTLE MINNIE WESTBROOKS REPORTED IN DYING CONDITION
Marietta, Ga, August 11.--(Special.) -- Little Minnie Westbroks, 12 year old daughter of Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, who was instantly killed in a collision between a Louisville and Nashville train and an auto at Canton Sunday morning, in which accident one of her daughters was instantly killed and four other children seriously injured, was reported tonight at Dr. C. T. Nolan's sanitarium here as in a critical condition, and officials stated that her death would probably occur tomorrow, if not sooner.
Hubert Westbrooks, 7; Glenn Westbrooks, 19 and Newton Westbrooks, 17, who were injured in the wreck, were reported resting easily and on the road to ultimate recovery.
Little Minnie's skull was badly fractured, and immediately after being rushed to medical aid here an operation was performed, in which the skull was lifted from her brain. Her condition late Monday night was much more critical, and attendants stated that there was little hope for her to last more than through the night.
The accident occurred when, according to reports, Newton Westbrooks stopped his car in front of the train directly on the tracks when he lost his head upon glimpsing the approaching locomotive. The track was screened from both the view of the driver of the car and of the engine, and neither was able to avert the tragedy.
TWO KILLED INSTANTLY, FOUR SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, 44, cut to pieces, and Daughter, Aurelia, 14, Instantly Slain.
The Fatal Collision Occurred at Canton
Two Other Young Children Seriously Injured and May Die, and Two Others Suffer Slight Wounds.
Marietta, Ga., August 10.--(Special)--Two were instantly killed, two more may die any time, and two others, all of the same family, are seriously injured as the result of an auto collision with a Louisville and Nashville train at Canton this morning at 10 o'clock. The deat are: Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, age 44, instantly killed and cut to pieces. Aurelia Westbrooks, age 14, instantly killed and also badly mangled. The seriously injured are: Minnie Westbrooks, 12, depressed fracture of skull, has been operated on and skull raised but may die at any time. Hubert Westbrook, 7 years old, had wounds about head and internal injuries. The slightly injured are: Newton Westbrooks, 17, driver of the car, cuts about body and head. Glenn westbrooks, 19, scalp wounds.
DID NOT SEE TRAIN
The mother and the five children were going to Lathamtown, ten miles from Canton, this morning just after the 9:40 train was due at the latter place. They evidently did not see the train until they were directly on the tracks, when they were seen to stop the car dead still. It is stated that a high bank prevented either the driver of the engine or of the auto from seeing each other, The train hit the car squarely and hurled it about 100 feet, mangling and killing the mother and one of the daughters.
The son, who was driving, says that he knew that a train was due there at about that time but he thought it had already passed.
The engine which struck the car was immediately uncoupled from the rest of the train and the injured placed on cots and rushed back to Marietta to a local sanitarium, reaching here about 12:20 o'clock.
TO VISIT FATHER
The Westbrooks have a farm in the eastern part of Cherokee county, about twelve miles from Waleska, During the past year they had moved to Waleska in order that the children might attend Rheinhart college at that place. During this crop season the father was remaining on his farm and this morning the mother and her five children started off in their auto to the farm, planning to take their dinner there and bring the father home.
They had to make the trip by the way of Canton and it was there that the accident took place. The Road to Canton, going north, just after crossing the Hiawassee river, comes immediately on the railroad, which crosses the road from a blind on either side. It is presumed, and is evident, that the Westbrooks failed to see the train until they were on the crossing, and the driver, in his excitement, stopped the auto instead of going on across.
GREWSOME SCENE
According to reports of the sensational event from Canton, a great crowd immediately gathered at the scene of the accident in order to render all aid possible to the injured. A half dozen women are said to have fainted at the sight of the bloody scene, and one man completely collapsed during the course of the removal of the bodies to a box car, in which they were rushed to the Marietta Sanitarium. When the father was notified of the catastrophe, he made a record run to the scene in an automobile, and his object suffering at the sight of his bloody and mangled family was sufficient to play on the heart-strings of the great gathering of sympathetic friends.
The bodies of Mrs. Westbrooks and her slain daughter were detained at Canton and taken to a local undertaking shop for burial later.
FAMILY PROMINENT
The family is one of the more successful and popular ones of Cherokee county, and there has been a constant stream of friends and relatives coming to Marietta in automobiles today to inquire of their condition and to offer any possible assistance. The engineer is said to have seen the auto balk at the crossing, but was unable to stop the train before the accident occurred. No blame has been attached to him in any way in connection with the accident.
CHILD CRITICALLY INJURED
Of those who are injured and are at the local sanitarium, Minnie Westbrooks is the more seriously injured and may die at any moment because of a very serious fracture of the skull. An operation was performed and the ___ ____ so as to remove the pressure on the brain, but the success of the operation is still uncertain.
unreadable, unconscious for many hours following the accident. Unreadable paragraph.
Glenn Westbrooks also has (unreadable) wounds, but they are not serious.
Newton Westbrooks, the driver, is the least injured of the six who were in the car, and never lost consciousness.
The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Tuesday August 12 1919
FATAL CRASH TO CLAIM STILL ANOTHER VICTIM
LITTLE MINNIE WESTBROOKS REPORTED IN DYING CONDITION
Marietta, Ga, August 11.--(Special.) -- Little Minnie Westbroks, 12 year old daughter of Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, who was instantly killed in a collision between a Louisville and Nashville train and an auto at Canton Sunday morning, in which accident one of her daughters was instantly killed and four other children seriously injured, was reported tonight at Dr. C. T. Nolan's sanitarium here as in a critical condition, and officials stated that her death would probably occur tomorrow, if not sooner.
Hubert Westbrooks, 7; Glenn Westbrooks, 19 and Newton Westbrooks, 17, who were injured in the wreck, were reported resting easily and on the road to ultimate recovery.
Little Minnie's skull was badly fractured, and immediately after being rushed to medical aid here an operation was performed, in which the skull was lifted from her brain. Her condition late Monday night was much more critical, and attendants stated that there was little hope for her to last more than through the night.
The accident occurred when, according to reports, Newton Westbrooks stopped his car in front of the train directly on the tracks when he lost his head upon glimpsing the approaching locomotive. The track was screened from both the view of the driver of the car and of the engine, and neither was able to avert the tragedy.
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Monday August 11 1919
TWO KILLED INSTANTLY, FOUR SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, 44, cut to pieces, and Daughter, Aurelia, 14, Instantly Slain.
The Fatal Collision Occurred at Canton
Two Other Young Children Seriously Injured and May Die, and Two Others Suffer Slight Wounds.
Marietta, Ga., August 10.--(Special)--Two were instantly killed, two more may die any time, and two others, all of the same family, are seriously injured as the result of an auto collision with a Louisville and Nashville train at Canton this morning at 10 o'clock. The deat are: Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, age 44, instantly killed and cut to pieces. Aurelia Westbrooks, age 14, instantly killed and also badly mangled. The seriously injured are: Minnie Westbrooks, 12, depressed fracture of skull, has been operated on and skull raised but may die at any time. Hubert Westbrook, 7 years old, had wounds about head and internal injuries. The slightly injured are: Newton Westbrooks, 17, driver of the car, cuts about body and head. Glenn westbrooks, 19, scalp wounds.
DID NOT SEE TRAIN
The mother and the five children were going to Lathamtown, ten miles from Canton, this morning just after the 9:40 train was due at the latter place. They evidently did not see the train until they were directly on the tracks, when they were seen to stop the car dead still. It is stated that a high bank prevented either the driver of the engine or of the auto from seeing each other, The train hit the car squarely and hurled it about 100 feet, mangling and killing the mother and one of the daughters.
The son, who was driving, says that he knew that a train was due there at about that time but he thought it had already passed.
The engine which struck the car was immediately uncoupled from the rest of the train and the injured placed on cots and rushed back to Marietta to a local sanitarium, reaching here about 12:20 o'clock.
TO VISIT FATHER
The Westbrooks have a farm in the eastern part of Cherokee county, about twelve miles from Waleska, During the past year they had moved to Waleska in order that the children might attend Rheinhart college at that place. During this crop season the father was remaining on his farm and this morning the mother and her five children started off in their auto to the farm, planning to take their dinner there and bring the father home.
They had to make the trip by the way of Canton and it was there that the accident took place. The Road to Canton, going north, just after crossing the Hiawassee river, comes immediately on the railroad, which crosses the road from a blind on either side. It is presumed, and is evident, that the Westbrooks failed to see the train until they were on the crossing, and the driver, in his excitement, stopped the auto instead of going on across.
GREWSOME SCENE
According to reports of the sensational event from Canton, a great crowd immediately gathered at the scene of the accident in order to render all aid possible to the injured. A half dozen women are said to have fainted at the sight of the bloody scene, and one man completely collapsed during the course of the removal of the bodies to a box car, in which they were rushed to the Marietta Sanitarium. When the father was notified of the catastrophe, he made a record run to the scene in an automobile, and his object suffering at the sight of his bloody and mangled family was sufficient to play on the heart-strings of the great gathering of sympathetic friends.
The bodies of Mrs. Westbrooks and her slain daughter were detained at Canton and taken to a local undertaking shop for burial later.
FAMILY PROMINENT
The family is one of the more successful and popular ones of Cherokee county, and there has been a constant stream of friends and relatives coming to Marietta in automobiles today to inquire of their condition and to offer any possible assistance. The engineer is said to have seen the auto balk at the crossing, but was unable to stop the train before the accident occurred. No blame has been attached to him in any way in connection with the accident.
CHILD CRITICALLY INJURED
Of those who are injured and are at the local sanitarium, Minnie Westbrooks is the more seriously injured and may die at any moment because of a very serious fracture of the skull. An operation was performed and the ___ ____ so as to remove the pressure on the brain, but the success of the operation is still uncertain.
unreadable, unconscious for many hours following the accident. Unreadable paragraph.
Glenn Westbrooks also has (unreadable) wounds, but they are not serious.
Newton Westbrooks, the driver, is the least injured of the six who were in the car, and never lost consciousness.
The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Tuesday August 12 1919
FATAL CRASH TO CLAIM STILL ANOTHER VICTIM
LITTLE MINNIE WESTBROOKS REPORTED IN DYING CONDITION
Marietta, Ga, August 11.--(Special.) -- Little Minnie Westbroks, 12 year old daughter of Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, who was instantly killed in a collision between a Louisville and Nashville train and an auto at Canton Sunday morning, in which accident one of her daughters was instantly killed and four other children seriously injured, was reported tonight at Dr. C. T. Nolan's sanitarium here as in a critical condition, and officials stated that her death would probably occur tomorrow, if not sooner.
Hubert Westbrooks, 7; Glenn Westbrooks, 19 and Newton Westbrooks, 17, who were injured in the wreck, were reported resting easily and on the road to ultimate recovery.
Little Minnie's skull was badly fractured, and immediately after being rushed to medical aid here an operation was performed, in which the skull was lifted from her brain. Her condition late Monday night was much more critical, and attendants stated that there was little hope for her to last more than through the night.
The accident occurred when, according to reports, Newton Westbrooks stopped his car in front of the train directly on the tracks when he lost his head upon glimpsing the approaching locomotive. The track was screened from both the view of the driver of the car and of the engine, and neither was able to avert the tragedy.
TWO KILLED INSTANTLY, FOUR SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, 44, cut to pieces, and Daughter, Aurelia, 14, Instantly Slain.
The Fatal Collision Occurred at Canton
Two Other Young Children Seriously Injured and May Die, and Two Others Suffer Slight Wounds.
Marietta, Ga., August 10.--(Special)--Two were instantly killed, two more may die any time, and two others, all of the same family, are seriously injured as the result of an auto collision with a Louisville and Nashville train at Canton this morning at 10 o'clock. The deat are: Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, age 44, instantly killed and cut to pieces. Aurelia Westbrooks, age 14, instantly killed and also badly mangled. The seriously injured are: Minnie Westbrooks, 12, depressed fracture of skull, has been operated on and skull raised but may die at any time. Hubert Westbrook, 7 years old, had wounds about head and internal injuries. The slightly injured are: Newton Westbrooks, 17, driver of the car, cuts about body and head. Glenn westbrooks, 19, scalp wounds.
DID NOT SEE TRAIN
The mother and the five children were going to Lathamtown, ten miles from Canton, this morning just after the 9:40 train was due at the latter place. They evidently did not see the train until they were directly on the tracks, when they were seen to stop the car dead still. It is stated that a high bank prevented either the driver of the engine or of the auto from seeing each other, The train hit the car squarely and hurled it about 100 feet, mangling and killing the mother and one of the daughters.
The son, who was driving, says that he knew that a train was due there at about that time but he thought it had already passed.
The engine which struck the car was immediately uncoupled from the rest of the train and the injured placed on cots and rushed back to Marietta to a local sanitarium, reaching here about 12:20 o'clock.
TO VISIT FATHER
The Westbrooks have a farm in the eastern part of Cherokee county, about twelve miles from Waleska, During the past year they had moved to Waleska in order that the children might attend Rheinhart college at that place. During this crop season the father was remaining on his farm and this morning the mother and her five children started off in their auto to the farm, planning to take their dinner there and bring the father home.
They had to make the trip by the way of Canton and it was there that the accident took place. The Road to Canton, going north, just after crossing the Hiawassee river, comes immediately on the railroad, which crosses the road from a blind on either side. It is presumed, and is evident, that the Westbrooks failed to see the train until they were on the crossing, and the driver, in his excitement, stopped the auto instead of going on across.
GREWSOME SCENE
According to reports of the sensational event from Canton, a great crowd immediately gathered at the scene of the accident in order to render all aid possible to the injured. A half dozen women are said to have fainted at the sight of the bloody scene, and one man completely collapsed during the course of the removal of the bodies to a box car, in which they were rushed to the Marietta Sanitarium. When the father was notified of the catastrophe, he made a record run to the scene in an automobile, and his object suffering at the sight of his bloody and mangled family was sufficient to play on the heart-strings of the great gathering of sympathetic friends.
The bodies of Mrs. Westbrooks and her slain daughter were detained at Canton and taken to a local undertaking shop for burial later.
FAMILY PROMINENT
The family is one of the more successful and popular ones of Cherokee county, and there has been a constant stream of friends and relatives coming to Marietta in automobiles today to inquire of their condition and to offer any possible assistance. The engineer is said to have seen the auto balk at the crossing, but was unable to stop the train before the accident occurred. No blame has been attached to him in any way in connection with the accident.
CHILD CRITICALLY INJURED
Of those who are injured and are at the local sanitarium, Minnie Westbrooks is the more seriously injured and may die at any moment because of a very serious fracture of the skull. An operation was performed and the ___ ____ so as to remove the pressure on the brain, but the success of the operation is still uncertain.
unreadable, unconscious for many hours following the accident. Unreadable paragraph.
Glenn Westbrooks also has (unreadable) wounds, but they are not serious.
Newton Westbrooks, the driver, is the least injured of the six who were in the car, and never lost consciousness.
The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Tuesday August 12 1919
FATAL CRASH TO CLAIM STILL ANOTHER VICTIM
LITTLE MINNIE WESTBROOKS REPORTED IN DYING CONDITION
Marietta, Ga, August 11.--(Special.) -- Little Minnie Westbroks, 12 year old daughter of Mrs. Charles Westbrooks, who was instantly killed in a collision between a Louisville and Nashville train and an auto at Canton Sunday morning, in which accident one of her daughters was instantly killed and four other children seriously injured, was reported tonight at Dr. C. T. Nolan's sanitarium here as in a critical condition, and officials stated that her death would probably occur tomorrow, if not sooner.
Hubert Westbrooks, 7; Glenn Westbrooks, 19 and Newton Westbrooks, 17, who were injured in the wreck, were reported resting easily and on the road to ultimate recovery.
Little Minnie's skull was badly fractured, and immediately after being rushed to medical aid here an operation was performed, in which the skull was lifted from her brain. Her condition late Monday night was much more critical, and attendants stated that there was little hope for her to last more than through the night.
The accident occurred when, according to reports, Newton Westbrooks stopped his car in front of the train directly on the tracks when he lost his head upon glimpsing the approaching locomotive. The track was screened from both the view of the driver of the car and of the engine, and neither was able to avert the tragedy.
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