Rockville Tribune, February 17, 1898, page 8
Frank Strouse was in Indianapolis, Saturday, investigating the case whereby Adison and George Hawkins lost their lives, by being struck by a fast mail train, on the Vandalia line. The Hawkins, father and son, lived about six miles west of Indianapolis, and were in the habit of driving to the city every morning to their work. On the date of the injury, they left home as usual, and it is supposed that the boy, who was driving, attempted to reach the crossing ahead of the train and was overtaken. The train was running about 60 miles an hour, and neither the engineer nor fireman knew that they had struck anything. he early morning local out of Indianapolis found the bodies. The two men had been knocked over 150 feet from the crossing, and were lying side by side in a ditch of flowing water when found. The boy's skull was completely crushed, and he was otherwise mangled;l the father was not so much disfigured. The horse was knocked further than the bodies, and its heart was lying beside it, having been torn from the body. There was hardly enought left of the buggy to tell what it was. There was no liability on the part of the railroad company, as the train was on time, and with precaution, it could have easily been seen, as there were no obstructions within a mile of the place. The law requires that in Indiana a party driving along the highway, before crossing a railroad track, must stop and look and listen. If more people observed this law there would be a considerably less number of fatalities.
Source: jim gillis
Frank Strouse was in Indianapolis, Saturday, investigating the case whereby Adison and George Hawkins lost their lives, by being struck by a fast mail train, on the Vandalia line. The Hawkins, father and son, lived about six miles west of Indianapolis, and were in the habit of driving to the city every morning to their work. On the date of the injury, they left home as usual, and it is supposed that the boy, who was driving, attempted to reach the crossing ahead of the train and was overtaken. The train was running about 60 miles an hour, and neither the engineer nor fireman knew that they had struck anything. he early morning local out of Indianapolis found the bodies. The two men had been knocked over 150 feet from the crossing, and were lying side by side in a ditch of flowing water when found. The boy's skull was completely crushed, and he was otherwise mangled;l the father was not so much disfigured. The horse was knocked further than the bodies, and its heart was lying beside it, having been torn from the body. There was hardly enought left of the buggy to tell what it was. There was no liability on the part of the railroad company, as the train was on time, and with precaution, it could have easily been seen, as there were no obstructions within a mile of the place. The law requires that in Indiana a party driving along the highway, before crossing a railroad track, must stop and look and listen. If more people observed this law there would be a considerably less number of fatalities.
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Rockville Tribune, February 17, 1898, page 8
Frank Strouse was in Indianapolis, Saturday, investigating the case whereby Adison and George Hawkins lost their lives, by being struck by a fast mail train, on the Vandalia line. The Hawkins, father and son, lived about six miles west of Indianapolis, and were in the habit of driving to the city every morning to their work. On the date of the injury, they left home as usual, and it is supposed that the boy, who was driving, attempted to reach the crossing ahead of the train and was overtaken. The train was running about 60 miles an hour, and neither the engineer nor fireman knew that they had struck anything. he early morning local out of Indianapolis found the bodies. The two men had been knocked over 150 feet from the crossing, and were lying side by side in a ditch of flowing water when found. The boy's skull was completely crushed, and he was otherwise mangled;l the father was not so much disfigured. The horse was knocked further than the bodies, and its heart was lying beside it, having been torn from the body. There was hardly enought left of the buggy to tell what it was. There was no liability on the part of the railroad company, as the train was on time, and with precaution, it could have easily been seen, as there were no obstructions within a mile of the place. The law requires that in Indiana a party driving along the highway, before crossing a railroad track, must stop and look and listen. If more people observed this law there would be a considerably less number of fatalities.
Source: jim gillis
Frank Strouse was in Indianapolis, Saturday, investigating the case whereby Adison and George Hawkins lost their lives, by being struck by a fast mail train, on the Vandalia line. The Hawkins, father and son, lived about six miles west of Indianapolis, and were in the habit of driving to the city every morning to their work. On the date of the injury, they left home as usual, and it is supposed that the boy, who was driving, attempted to reach the crossing ahead of the train and was overtaken. The train was running about 60 miles an hour, and neither the engineer nor fireman knew that they had struck anything. he early morning local out of Indianapolis found the bodies. The two men had been knocked over 150 feet from the crossing, and were lying side by side in a ditch of flowing water when found. The boy's skull was completely crushed, and he was otherwise mangled;l the father was not so much disfigured. The horse was knocked further than the bodies, and its heart was lying beside it, having been torn from the body. There was hardly enought left of the buggy to tell what it was. There was no liability on the part of the railroad company, as the train was on time, and with precaution, it could have easily been seen, as there were no obstructions within a mile of the place. The law requires that in Indiana a party driving along the highway, before crossing a railroad track, must stop and look and listen. If more people observed this law there would be a considerably less number of fatalities.
Source: jim gillis
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