Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Irwin, Mrs. Jack & Son 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com December 7, 2005, 7:35 pm Payette Enterprise 9-25-1913 Payette Enterprise Payette, Idaho Thursday, September 25, 1913 Former Payette Resident Meets Awful Death Caught on snake river Bridge Mrs. Jack Irwin and Three Year Old Son Are Killed -- Eight Year Old Daughter Badly Injured. Friday evening of last week about six o'clock Mrs. Jack Irwin and two children, a daughter eight years old and a son three were caught by a freight train while crossing the Snake River bridge and Mrs. Irwin and the son instantly killed and the daughter very badly injured. Mrs. Irwin is well known in Payette but for some time has been living at Brogan, Oregon. She had come to the fair at Ontario and had started to walk from that city to Payette to visit with the family of F.E. Hurd with which family her husband had lived for a number of years before their marriage. For some time after the accident the remains of the mother and son lay in Ontario unidentified until the little girl regained consciousness and told that her name was Daisy Irwin. Inder the belief that the lady was Mrs. Jack Irwin. F.E. Hurd went to Ontario and was able to thoroughly identify her even though borth bodies were horribly mangled. Interment was made in the cemetery at Ontario. The daughter still lingers between life and death in the hospital in that city. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/i/irwin319nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb