On April 2, 1957, around noon time, 20-month-old Arthur Walter Bauder, wandered from his home on Water Street in Nelliston, followed a path at the end of Prospect Street and down to the four railed railroad below. Engineer Hugh McDonald of Syracuse was traveling at a rate of 45 miles per hour when he noticed an object sitting on the ties. It was Arthur. The Engineer later told investigators when he realized it was a child, he frantically braked, but heard the impact and came to a stop a considerable distance east below the Fort Plain (Nelliston Station). He was operating a 65 car length train with three diesels that fateful day. His shocked parents (Jennie and John Bauder) were unable to explain how their young son left their yard on Water Street and made his way down to the train tracks.
FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR NELLISTON CHILD KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN -
EVENING RECORDER, AMSTERDAM. N.Y., THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1957
Funeral services for Arthur Bauder, the 21-month-old Nelliston boy who was struck and killed by a freight train near his home yesterday, will be held tomorrow morning in Nelliston and Herkimer. The tot. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bauder, was killed about. 12:30 p.m. yesterday when he was hit by a fast eastbound New York Central freight 1.000 feet west of the Nelliston station. The father found the boy lying alongside the tracks after he had wandered away from his backyard. Mr. Bauder had been working around the house. State Police at Palatine Bridge said the tragedy occurred only about a block from the Bauder home. Engineer Hugh J. McDonald, 65. of Syracuse, said he saw the boy standing on the track and that he could not stop the 65-car train in time. Speed of the train was estimated at 58 miles per hour. Dr. Albert Sentochnik of Fort Plain, the acting coroner, pronounced the boy dead. He said the boy died of a fractured skull and ruled the death accidental. The young victim was born July 2. 1955 In Little Falls Hospital, the son of John and Jennie, Bruzgulis Bauder, who survive him together with his grandmothers, Mrs. Clyde Blunck, Hagaman, and Mrs. Walter Bruzgulis, Little Falls; his great-grandmothers, Mrs. Elizabeth Bauder, Amsterdam, and Mrs. Margaret Olyer, Little Falls, and three aunts. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the home and at 10 at St. Joseph's Church, Herkimer, where the Rev. Vincent Novak will officiate. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery Herkimer. Funeral arrangements are by the Gray Funeral home of Fort Plain.
FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR NELLISTON CHILD KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN -
EVENING RECORDER, AMSTERDAM. N.Y., THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1957
Funeral services for Arthur Bauder, the 21-month-old Nelliston boy who was struck and killed by a freight train near his home yesterday, will be held tomorrow morning in Nelliston and Herkimer. The tot. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bauder, was killed about. 12:30 p.m. yesterday when he was hit by a fast eastbound New York Central freight 1.000 feet west of the Nelliston station. The father found the boy lying alongside the tracks after he had wandered away from his backyard. Mr. Bauder had been working around the house. State Police at Palatine Bridge said the tragedy occurred only about a block from the Bauder home. Engineer Hugh J. McDonald, 65. of Syracuse, said he saw the boy standing on the track and that he could not stop the 65-car train in time. Speed of the train was estimated at 58 miles per hour. Dr. Albert Sentochnik of Fort Plain, the acting coroner, pronounced the boy dead. He said the boy died of a fractured skull and ruled the death accidental. The young victim was born July 2. 1955 In Little Falls Hospital, the son of John and Jennie, Bruzgulis Bauder, who survive him together with his grandmothers, Mrs. Clyde Blunck, Hagaman, and Mrs. Walter Bruzgulis, Little Falls; his great-grandmothers, Mrs. Elizabeth Bauder, Amsterdam, and Mrs. Margaret Olyer, Little Falls, and three aunts. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the home and at 10 at St. Joseph's Church, Herkimer, where the Rev. Vincent Novak will officiate. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery Herkimer. Funeral arrangements are by the Gray Funeral home of Fort Plain.
On April 2, 1957, around noon time, 20-month-old Arthur Walter Bauder, wandered from his home on Water Street in Nelliston, followed a path at the end of Prospect Street and down to the four railed railroad below. Engineer Hugh McDonald of Syracuse was traveling at a rate of 45 miles per hour when he noticed an object sitting on the ties. It was Arthur. The Engineer later told investigators when he realized it was a child, he frantically braked, but heard the impact and came to a stop a considerable distance east below the Fort Plain (Nelliston Station). He was operating a 65 car length train with three diesels that fateful day. His shocked parents (Jennie and John Bauder) were unable to explain how their young son left their yard on Water Street and made his way down to the train tracks.
FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR NELLISTON CHILD KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN -
EVENING RECORDER, AMSTERDAM. N.Y., THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1957
Funeral services for Arthur Bauder, the 21-month-old Nelliston boy who was struck and killed by a freight train near his home yesterday, will be held tomorrow morning in Nelliston and Herkimer. The tot. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bauder, was killed about. 12:30 p.m. yesterday when he was hit by a fast eastbound New York Central freight 1.000 feet west of the Nelliston station. The father found the boy lying alongside the tracks after he had wandered away from his backyard. Mr. Bauder had been working around the house. State Police at Palatine Bridge said the tragedy occurred only about a block from the Bauder home. Engineer Hugh J. McDonald, 65. of Syracuse, said he saw the boy standing on the track and that he could not stop the 65-car train in time. Speed of the train was estimated at 58 miles per hour. Dr. Albert Sentochnik of Fort Plain, the acting coroner, pronounced the boy dead. He said the boy died of a fractured skull and ruled the death accidental. The young victim was born July 2. 1955 In Little Falls Hospital, the son of John and Jennie, Bruzgulis Bauder, who survive him together with his grandmothers, Mrs. Clyde Blunck, Hagaman, and Mrs. Walter Bruzgulis, Little Falls; his great-grandmothers, Mrs. Elizabeth Bauder, Amsterdam, and Mrs. Margaret Olyer, Little Falls, and three aunts. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the home and at 10 at St. Joseph's Church, Herkimer, where the Rev. Vincent Novak will officiate. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery Herkimer. Funeral arrangements are by the Gray Funeral home of Fort Plain.
FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR NELLISTON CHILD KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN -
EVENING RECORDER, AMSTERDAM. N.Y., THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1957
Funeral services for Arthur Bauder, the 21-month-old Nelliston boy who was struck and killed by a freight train near his home yesterday, will be held tomorrow morning in Nelliston and Herkimer. The tot. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bauder, was killed about. 12:30 p.m. yesterday when he was hit by a fast eastbound New York Central freight 1.000 feet west of the Nelliston station. The father found the boy lying alongside the tracks after he had wandered away from his backyard. Mr. Bauder had been working around the house. State Police at Palatine Bridge said the tragedy occurred only about a block from the Bauder home. Engineer Hugh J. McDonald, 65. of Syracuse, said he saw the boy standing on the track and that he could not stop the 65-car train in time. Speed of the train was estimated at 58 miles per hour. Dr. Albert Sentochnik of Fort Plain, the acting coroner, pronounced the boy dead. He said the boy died of a fractured skull and ruled the death accidental. The young victim was born July 2. 1955 In Little Falls Hospital, the son of John and Jennie, Bruzgulis Bauder, who survive him together with his grandmothers, Mrs. Clyde Blunck, Hagaman, and Mrs. Walter Bruzgulis, Little Falls; his great-grandmothers, Mrs. Elizabeth Bauder, Amsterdam, and Mrs. Margaret Olyer, Little Falls, and three aunts. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the home and at 10 at St. Joseph's Church, Herkimer, where the Rev. Vincent Novak will officiate. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery Herkimer. Funeral arrangements are by the Gray Funeral home of Fort Plain.
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