Probe In Death Of Three Begins
Mayor Henry Sousley of Ada, Friday, issued a call for a special meeting of the city council to take measures to avert a repetition of a railroad crossing accident there late Thursday in which the lives of three children were snuffed out.
Sousley blames the accident upon the failure of the railroad to maintain a watchman whose business it would be to handle the gates which close the crossing to traffic, only.
He will ask legislation from the council, he announced, which will require the railroad to put one man on duty at the crossing for the special purpose of guarding traffic and pedestrians.
Katherine Hull, 14, Emerson Hull, 16, children of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hull, residing a mile and a half south of Ada, and Imogene Hedrick, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hedrick, neighbors of the Hull's were the victims of the Thursday accident.
The Hull boy, who worked in his father's mill, had gone to Ada high school to drive his sister and the Hedrick girl to their homes.
As they approached the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing, a fast train two hours late bore down upon them and crashed into the buggy which young Hull was driving.
The three children were instantly killed. The buggy was cut clear of the horse, which escaped without injury.
B. F. Frey, gateman and telegraph operator employed in the Pennsylvania Railroad tower at the crossing, claims to have lowered the gates, but that the children drove onto the tracks before they were closed completely.
The mother of the Hull children was prostrated Friday when she was taken to see the bodies of her children. Her condition is reported to be serious.
Funeral services for the victims will probably be held Monday, it has been announced.
Preliminary investigation conducted Friday indicated that two other children narrowly escaped death in the same accident. John Campbell, 12 and John Fisher, 14, had their ropes attached to the buggy driven by the Hull boy. They managed to loose the sleds in time to avert being pulled into the path of the locomotive which hit the buggy.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, December 22, 1922)
Mayor Henry Sousley of Ada, Friday, issued a call for a special meeting of the city council to take measures to avert a repetition of a railroad crossing accident there late Thursday in which the lives of three children were snuffed out.
Sousley blames the accident upon the failure of the railroad to maintain a watchman whose business it would be to handle the gates which close the crossing to traffic, only.
He will ask legislation from the council, he announced, which will require the railroad to put one man on duty at the crossing for the special purpose of guarding traffic and pedestrians.
Katherine Hull, 14, Emerson Hull, 16, children of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hull, residing a mile and a half south of Ada, and Imogene Hedrick, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hedrick, neighbors of the Hull's were the victims of the Thursday accident.
The Hull boy, who worked in his father's mill, had gone to Ada high school to drive his sister and the Hedrick girl to their homes.
As they approached the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing, a fast train two hours late bore down upon them and crashed into the buggy which young Hull was driving.
The three children were instantly killed. The buggy was cut clear of the horse, which escaped without injury.
B. F. Frey, gateman and telegraph operator employed in the Pennsylvania Railroad tower at the crossing, claims to have lowered the gates, but that the children drove onto the tracks before they were closed completely.
The mother of the Hull children was prostrated Friday when she was taken to see the bodies of her children. Her condition is reported to be serious.
Funeral services for the victims will probably be held Monday, it has been announced.
Preliminary investigation conducted Friday indicated that two other children narrowly escaped death in the same accident. John Campbell, 12 and John Fisher, 14, had their ropes attached to the buggy driven by the Hull boy. They managed to loose the sleds in time to avert being pulled into the path of the locomotive which hit the buggy.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, December 22, 1922)
Probe In Death Of Three Begins
Mayor Henry Sousley of Ada, Friday, issued a call for a special meeting of the city council to take measures to avert a repetition of a railroad crossing accident there late Thursday in which the lives of three children were snuffed out.
Sousley blames the accident upon the failure of the railroad to maintain a watchman whose business it would be to handle the gates which close the crossing to traffic, only.
He will ask legislation from the council, he announced, which will require the railroad to put one man on duty at the crossing for the special purpose of guarding traffic and pedestrians.
Katherine Hull, 14, Emerson Hull, 16, children of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hull, residing a mile and a half south of Ada, and Imogene Hedrick, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hedrick, neighbors of the Hull's were the victims of the Thursday accident.
The Hull boy, who worked in his father's mill, had gone to Ada high school to drive his sister and the Hedrick girl to their homes.
As they approached the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing, a fast train two hours late bore down upon them and crashed into the buggy which young Hull was driving.
The three children were instantly killed. The buggy was cut clear of the horse, which escaped without injury.
B. F. Frey, gateman and telegraph operator employed in the Pennsylvania Railroad tower at the crossing, claims to have lowered the gates, but that the children drove onto the tracks before they were closed completely.
The mother of the Hull children was prostrated Friday when she was taken to see the bodies of her children. Her condition is reported to be serious.
Funeral services for the victims will probably be held Monday, it has been announced.
Preliminary investigation conducted Friday indicated that two other children narrowly escaped death in the same accident. John Campbell, 12 and John Fisher, 14, had their ropes attached to the buggy driven by the Hull boy. They managed to loose the sleds in time to avert being pulled into the path of the locomotive which hit the buggy.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, December 22, 1922)
Mayor Henry Sousley of Ada, Friday, issued a call for a special meeting of the city council to take measures to avert a repetition of a railroad crossing accident there late Thursday in which the lives of three children were snuffed out.
Sousley blames the accident upon the failure of the railroad to maintain a watchman whose business it would be to handle the gates which close the crossing to traffic, only.
He will ask legislation from the council, he announced, which will require the railroad to put one man on duty at the crossing for the special purpose of guarding traffic and pedestrians.
Katherine Hull, 14, Emerson Hull, 16, children of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Hull, residing a mile and a half south of Ada, and Imogene Hedrick, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hedrick, neighbors of the Hull's were the victims of the Thursday accident.
The Hull boy, who worked in his father's mill, had gone to Ada high school to drive his sister and the Hedrick girl to their homes.
As they approached the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing, a fast train two hours late bore down upon them and crashed into the buggy which young Hull was driving.
The three children were instantly killed. The buggy was cut clear of the horse, which escaped without injury.
B. F. Frey, gateman and telegraph operator employed in the Pennsylvania Railroad tower at the crossing, claims to have lowered the gates, but that the children drove onto the tracks before they were closed completely.
The mother of the Hull children was prostrated Friday when she was taken to see the bodies of her children. Her condition is reported to be serious.
Funeral services for the victims will probably be held Monday, it has been announced.
Preliminary investigation conducted Friday indicated that two other children narrowly escaped death in the same accident. John Campbell, 12 and John Fisher, 14, had their ropes attached to the buggy driven by the Hull boy. They managed to loose the sleds in time to avert being pulled into the path of the locomotive which hit the buggy.
(published in The Lima News, Friday, December 22, 1922)
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