WINTERTON CAMP OWNER IS KILLED
Harry Campbell Victim of Accident on Saturday Evening
Harry Campbell, thirty-five, proprietor of Camp Bell, a small bathing resort near Winterton, Sullivan county, was killed shortly before seven o'clock Saturday evening when his light automobile delivery truck was struck and wrecked at the Winterton railroad crossing by a southbound Ontario & Western passenger train.
The train which caused the death of Mr. Campbell, Number Six, which was in charge of Engineer Valentine Mueller and Conductor Benjamin Rockwell, both of Middletown, does not stop at Winterton.
Thundering by the station the highway crossing only a few rods to the southward, the locomotive apparently hit the small motor truck near the front on the right side, hurling the wreckage against one bank, while Campbell was catapulted from his seat, his body landing on the northbound track, it was said.
It is believed that the railroad station obscured the view of the motorist, and that he did not hear the train, although reports of the accident filed by the train crew at the Ontario & Western offices here stated that the engine whistle was blown and that the crossing bell was ringing.
Campbell had just left the Winterton post office with his mail, and was driving to an icehouse across the tracks to get a load of ice for his camp, when the accident happened.
Dr. George R. Bull, of Bloomingburg, was called, but Campbell's death had been almost instantaneous, and his body was removed by W. W. VanInwegen, Bloomingburg undertaker.
Residents said there had been no other accident at this crossing in years.
Campbell, who was married bu had no children, was a prominent member of the Winterton community in which he had lived about nine years. He was a past master of the Bloomingburg Grange, a member of Hoffman Lodge, F. & A. M., of Middletown, and of Middletown Tent, Knights of the Maccabees. He was born at Westfield, Conn., February fourteenth, 1894.
He and his father, Jesse G. Campbell, recently had been developing the old George Norburg farm near Winterton, and had plans for an extensive Summer colony there.
Surviving members of his family are his parents; his wife, the former Clarabelle Osborne, and one sister, Ida May, wife of George W. Miles of Middletown.
The funeral will be held at two o'clock Tuesday from the Methodist Church at Bloomingburg. Masonic services will be held at the grave in Circleville cemetery.
--Orange County Independent (Middletown, NY), Thursday, August 15, 1929, page 1
Harry Campbell Victim of Accident on Saturday Evening
Harry Campbell, thirty-five, proprietor of Camp Bell, a small bathing resort near Winterton, Sullivan county, was killed shortly before seven o'clock Saturday evening when his light automobile delivery truck was struck and wrecked at the Winterton railroad crossing by a southbound Ontario & Western passenger train.
The train which caused the death of Mr. Campbell, Number Six, which was in charge of Engineer Valentine Mueller and Conductor Benjamin Rockwell, both of Middletown, does not stop at Winterton.
Thundering by the station the highway crossing only a few rods to the southward, the locomotive apparently hit the small motor truck near the front on the right side, hurling the wreckage against one bank, while Campbell was catapulted from his seat, his body landing on the northbound track, it was said.
It is believed that the railroad station obscured the view of the motorist, and that he did not hear the train, although reports of the accident filed by the train crew at the Ontario & Western offices here stated that the engine whistle was blown and that the crossing bell was ringing.
Campbell had just left the Winterton post office with his mail, and was driving to an icehouse across the tracks to get a load of ice for his camp, when the accident happened.
Dr. George R. Bull, of Bloomingburg, was called, but Campbell's death had been almost instantaneous, and his body was removed by W. W. VanInwegen, Bloomingburg undertaker.
Residents said there had been no other accident at this crossing in years.
Campbell, who was married bu had no children, was a prominent member of the Winterton community in which he had lived about nine years. He was a past master of the Bloomingburg Grange, a member of Hoffman Lodge, F. & A. M., of Middletown, and of Middletown Tent, Knights of the Maccabees. He was born at Westfield, Conn., February fourteenth, 1894.
He and his father, Jesse G. Campbell, recently had been developing the old George Norburg farm near Winterton, and had plans for an extensive Summer colony there.
Surviving members of his family are his parents; his wife, the former Clarabelle Osborne, and one sister, Ida May, wife of George W. Miles of Middletown.
The funeral will be held at two o'clock Tuesday from the Methodist Church at Bloomingburg. Masonic services will be held at the grave in Circleville cemetery.
--Orange County Independent (Middletown, NY), Thursday, August 15, 1929, page 1
WINTERTON CAMP OWNER IS KILLED
Harry Campbell Victim of Accident on Saturday Evening
Harry Campbell, thirty-five, proprietor of Camp Bell, a small bathing resort near Winterton, Sullivan county, was killed shortly before seven o'clock Saturday evening when his light automobile delivery truck was struck and wrecked at the Winterton railroad crossing by a southbound Ontario & Western passenger train.
The train which caused the death of Mr. Campbell, Number Six, which was in charge of Engineer Valentine Mueller and Conductor Benjamin Rockwell, both of Middletown, does not stop at Winterton.
Thundering by the station the highway crossing only a few rods to the southward, the locomotive apparently hit the small motor truck near the front on the right side, hurling the wreckage against one bank, while Campbell was catapulted from his seat, his body landing on the northbound track, it was said.
It is believed that the railroad station obscured the view of the motorist, and that he did not hear the train, although reports of the accident filed by the train crew at the Ontario & Western offices here stated that the engine whistle was blown and that the crossing bell was ringing.
Campbell had just left the Winterton post office with his mail, and was driving to an icehouse across the tracks to get a load of ice for his camp, when the accident happened.
Dr. George R. Bull, of Bloomingburg, was called, but Campbell's death had been almost instantaneous, and his body was removed by W. W. VanInwegen, Bloomingburg undertaker.
Residents said there had been no other accident at this crossing in years.
Campbell, who was married bu had no children, was a prominent member of the Winterton community in which he had lived about nine years. He was a past master of the Bloomingburg Grange, a member of Hoffman Lodge, F. & A. M., of Middletown, and of Middletown Tent, Knights of the Maccabees. He was born at Westfield, Conn., February fourteenth, 1894.
He and his father, Jesse G. Campbell, recently had been developing the old George Norburg farm near Winterton, and had plans for an extensive Summer colony there.
Surviving members of his family are his parents; his wife, the former Clarabelle Osborne, and one sister, Ida May, wife of George W. Miles of Middletown.
The funeral will be held at two o'clock Tuesday from the Methodist Church at Bloomingburg. Masonic services will be held at the grave in Circleville cemetery.
--Orange County Independent (Middletown, NY), Thursday, August 15, 1929, page 1
Harry Campbell Victim of Accident on Saturday Evening
Harry Campbell, thirty-five, proprietor of Camp Bell, a small bathing resort near Winterton, Sullivan county, was killed shortly before seven o'clock Saturday evening when his light automobile delivery truck was struck and wrecked at the Winterton railroad crossing by a southbound Ontario & Western passenger train.
The train which caused the death of Mr. Campbell, Number Six, which was in charge of Engineer Valentine Mueller and Conductor Benjamin Rockwell, both of Middletown, does not stop at Winterton.
Thundering by the station the highway crossing only a few rods to the southward, the locomotive apparently hit the small motor truck near the front on the right side, hurling the wreckage against one bank, while Campbell was catapulted from his seat, his body landing on the northbound track, it was said.
It is believed that the railroad station obscured the view of the motorist, and that he did not hear the train, although reports of the accident filed by the train crew at the Ontario & Western offices here stated that the engine whistle was blown and that the crossing bell was ringing.
Campbell had just left the Winterton post office with his mail, and was driving to an icehouse across the tracks to get a load of ice for his camp, when the accident happened.
Dr. George R. Bull, of Bloomingburg, was called, but Campbell's death had been almost instantaneous, and his body was removed by W. W. VanInwegen, Bloomingburg undertaker.
Residents said there had been no other accident at this crossing in years.
Campbell, who was married bu had no children, was a prominent member of the Winterton community in which he had lived about nine years. He was a past master of the Bloomingburg Grange, a member of Hoffman Lodge, F. & A. M., of Middletown, and of Middletown Tent, Knights of the Maccabees. He was born at Westfield, Conn., February fourteenth, 1894.
He and his father, Jesse G. Campbell, recently had been developing the old George Norburg farm near Winterton, and had plans for an extensive Summer colony there.
Surviving members of his family are his parents; his wife, the former Clarabelle Osborne, and one sister, Ida May, wife of George W. Miles of Middletown.
The funeral will be held at two o'clock Tuesday from the Methodist Church at Bloomingburg. Masonic services will be held at the grave in Circleville cemetery.
--Orange County Independent (Middletown, NY), Thursday, August 15, 1929, page 1
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