Kathryn died at the young age of 18 years, 2 months and 9 days in an automobile-train accident.
FOUR WOMEN AND MAN DIE IN CRASH
Kingsbury Ordinance Plant Employees Killed By Train Near La Porte
LA PORTE, Ind., Nov. 7. (AP) -- Four women and a man, all employees of the Kingsbury ordinance plant, were killed last night when their automobile was hit by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train at Wellsboro, twelve miles south of La Porte.
The dead all were residents of Hanna, and were returning to their homes about seven miles south of Wellsboro when the accident occurred.
They were:
Kathleen Gibson, age twenty, driver of the car; Kathryn Rosenbaum, age eighteen; Vivian Rowley, age thirty-seven; Rhoda Hull, age nineteen, and Richard C. Caesar, age thirty-four.
Witnesses said the automobile was struck as Miss Gibson, after waiting for a westbound freight train to pass, crossed the tracks in the path of the limited, which came from the west. A car in front of hers crossed safely.
The bodies of Caesar and Miss Gibson were retrieved from the wreckage of the car; the others were thrown clear, and their identification was difficult because the clothing burned in a fire following the explosion of the gasoline tank.
The crossing, guarded by blinker signals, has been the scene of six deaths within the last fifteen years.
Published in The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), on Saturday, November 7, 1942, pg. 21.
FOUR WOMEN AND MAN DIE IN CRASH
Kingsbury Ordinance Plant Employees Killed By Train Near La Porte
LA PORTE, Ind., Nov. 7. (AP) -- Four women and a man, all employees of the Kingsbury ordinance plant, were killed last night when their automobile was hit by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train at Wellsboro, twelve miles south of La Porte.
The dead all were residents of Hanna, and were returning to their homes about seven miles south of Wellsboro when the accident occurred.
They were:
Kathleen Gibson, age twenty, driver of the car; Kathryn Rosenbaum, age eighteen; Vivian Rowley, age thirty-seven; Rhoda Hull, age nineteen, and Richard C. Caesar, age thirty-four.
Witnesses said the automobile was struck as Miss Gibson, after waiting for a westbound freight train to pass, crossed the tracks in the path of the limited, which came from the west. A car in front of hers crossed safely.
The bodies of Caesar and Miss Gibson were retrieved from the wreckage of the car; the others were thrown clear, and their identification was difficult because the clothing burned in a fire following the explosion of the gasoline tank.
The crossing, guarded by blinker signals, has been the scene of six deaths within the last fifteen years.
Published in The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), on Saturday, November 7, 1942, pg. 21.
Kathryn died at the young age of 18 years, 2 months and 9 days in an automobile-train accident.
FOUR WOMEN AND MAN DIE IN CRASH
Kingsbury Ordinance Plant Employees Killed By Train Near La Porte
LA PORTE, Ind., Nov. 7. (AP) -- Four women and a man, all employees of the Kingsbury ordinance plant, were killed last night when their automobile was hit by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train at Wellsboro, twelve miles south of La Porte.
The dead all were residents of Hanna, and were returning to their homes about seven miles south of Wellsboro when the accident occurred.
They were:
Kathleen Gibson, age twenty, driver of the car; Kathryn Rosenbaum, age eighteen; Vivian Rowley, age thirty-seven; Rhoda Hull, age nineteen, and Richard C. Caesar, age thirty-four.
Witnesses said the automobile was struck as Miss Gibson, after waiting for a westbound freight train to pass, crossed the tracks in the path of the limited, which came from the west. A car in front of hers crossed safely.
The bodies of Caesar and Miss Gibson were retrieved from the wreckage of the car; the others were thrown clear, and their identification was difficult because the clothing burned in a fire following the explosion of the gasoline tank.
The crossing, guarded by blinker signals, has been the scene of six deaths within the last fifteen years.
Published in The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), on Saturday, November 7, 1942, pg. 21.
FOUR WOMEN AND MAN DIE IN CRASH
Kingsbury Ordinance Plant Employees Killed By Train Near La Porte
LA PORTE, Ind., Nov. 7. (AP) -- Four women and a man, all employees of the Kingsbury ordinance plant, were killed last night when their automobile was hit by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train at Wellsboro, twelve miles south of La Porte.
The dead all were residents of Hanna, and were returning to their homes about seven miles south of Wellsboro when the accident occurred.
They were:
Kathleen Gibson, age twenty, driver of the car; Kathryn Rosenbaum, age eighteen; Vivian Rowley, age thirty-seven; Rhoda Hull, age nineteen, and Richard C. Caesar, age thirty-four.
Witnesses said the automobile was struck as Miss Gibson, after waiting for a westbound freight train to pass, crossed the tracks in the path of the limited, which came from the west. A car in front of hers crossed safely.
The bodies of Caesar and Miss Gibson were retrieved from the wreckage of the car; the others were thrown clear, and their identification was difficult because the clothing burned in a fire following the explosion of the gasoline tank.
The crossing, guarded by blinker signals, has been the scene of six deaths within the last fifteen years.
Published in The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, IN), on Saturday, November 7, 1942, pg. 21.
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KATHRYN D. ROSENBAUM
1924 - 1942
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