The Osceola Times, Friday, for December 1925, page 1. (Mississippi Co. AR)
Nine lives were snuffed out Monday afternoon when an automobile collided with a southbound Frisco passenger train near Archillion, Arkansas about 10 miles north of Osceola.
Clem Oxford was driving the car and was accompanied by his brother, Lawrence Oxford, Mrs. Lawrence Oxford, William, Odessa, and Theodore, children of Lawrence Oxford; and Mildred, Omer, Clem, Jr., and Geraldine, children of Clem Oxford.
When the crash came every document of the car except Theodore, aged eight years was instantly killed and their bodies prayerfully mutilated. Theodore was taken to a hospital at Blytheville, some 4 miles away, and while badly hurt hopes are entertained for his recovery.
The accident occurred at a place where even ordinary caution would have averted the disaster. Eyewitnesses agree that Clem Oxford, driver of the car was looking back at a neighbor who had held him in an effort to warn him of the approaching train when the fatal crash came.
It develops that Clem Oxford was the owner of an insurance policy with the double indemnity clause which was taken out last summer and this money will come as a godsend to the stricken wife and mother who is left alone in the world, every child in the family having met death with the father.
Nine lives were snuffed out Monday afternoon when an automobile collided with a southbound Frisco passenger train near Archillion, Arkansas about 10 miles north of Osceola.
Clem Oxford was driving the car and was accompanied by his brother, Lawrence Oxford, Mrs. Lawrence Oxford, William, Odessa, and Theodore, children of Lawrence Oxford; and Mildred, Omer, Clem, Jr., and Geraldine, children of Clem Oxford.
When the crash came every document of the car except Theodore, aged eight years was instantly killed and their bodies prayerfully mutilated. Theodore was taken to a hospital at Blytheville, some 4 miles away, and while badly hurt hopes are entertained for his recovery.
The accident occurred at a place where even ordinary caution would have averted the disaster. Eyewitnesses agree that Clem Oxford, driver of the car was looking back at a neighbor who had held him in an effort to warn him of the approaching train when the fatal crash came.
It develops that Clem Oxford was the owner of an insurance policy with the double indemnity clause which was taken out last summer and this money will come as a godsend to the stricken wife and mother who is left alone in the world, every child in the family having met death with the father.
The Osceola Times, Friday, for December 1925, page 1. (Mississippi Co. AR)
Nine lives were snuffed out Monday afternoon when an automobile collided with a southbound Frisco passenger train near Archillion, Arkansas about 10 miles north of Osceola.
Clem Oxford was driving the car and was accompanied by his brother, Lawrence Oxford, Mrs. Lawrence Oxford, William, Odessa, and Theodore, children of Lawrence Oxford; and Mildred, Omer, Clem, Jr., and Geraldine, children of Clem Oxford.
When the crash came every document of the car except Theodore, aged eight years was instantly killed and their bodies prayerfully mutilated. Theodore was taken to a hospital at Blytheville, some 4 miles away, and while badly hurt hopes are entertained for his recovery.
The accident occurred at a place where even ordinary caution would have averted the disaster. Eyewitnesses agree that Clem Oxford, driver of the car was looking back at a neighbor who had held him in an effort to warn him of the approaching train when the fatal crash came.
It develops that Clem Oxford was the owner of an insurance policy with the double indemnity clause which was taken out last summer and this money will come as a godsend to the stricken wife and mother who is left alone in the world, every child in the family having met death with the father.
Nine lives were snuffed out Monday afternoon when an automobile collided with a southbound Frisco passenger train near Archillion, Arkansas about 10 miles north of Osceola.
Clem Oxford was driving the car and was accompanied by his brother, Lawrence Oxford, Mrs. Lawrence Oxford, William, Odessa, and Theodore, children of Lawrence Oxford; and Mildred, Omer, Clem, Jr., and Geraldine, children of Clem Oxford.
When the crash came every document of the car except Theodore, aged eight years was instantly killed and their bodies prayerfully mutilated. Theodore was taken to a hospital at Blytheville, some 4 miles away, and while badly hurt hopes are entertained for his recovery.
The accident occurred at a place where even ordinary caution would have averted the disaster. Eyewitnesses agree that Clem Oxford, driver of the car was looking back at a neighbor who had held him in an effort to warn him of the approaching train when the fatal crash came.
It develops that Clem Oxford was the owner of an insurance policy with the double indemnity clause which was taken out last summer and this money will come as a godsend to the stricken wife and mother who is left alone in the world, every child in the family having met death with the father.
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