Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Landry, Lelia nee LeBlanc March 10, 1918
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1st. Newspaper article:
source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, March 16, 1918, Image 3

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DEAD

Last Sunday morning this community was appalled by the horrors of a railroad 
tragedy in the eastern porttion of this city. An automobile from Delcambre, 
carrying Mrs. D, A. Landry, two children, and Mr. Chauvin, bound for Lake 
Catahoula, in St Martins parish, was caught on the railroad crossing at the 
intersection of Centre and Washington streets this city. Mrs. Landry was 
decapitated. Her little daughter died Sunday evening, being unable to rally 
from the shock of the loss of both lower limbs. The other two occupants of 
the auto escaped with minor bruiees (sic).

It seems that the engine of the auto went dead just as it mounted the grade 
of the railroad crossing ahead of the passing of a passenger train going 
east, Mrs. Landry was at the steering wheel of the auto at the time of the 
accident.




2nd. Newspaper article:
source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.) 
1902-1944, March 16, 1918, Image 1

Mrs. (Dr. Adophe) Landry Instantly Killed.

Her Daughter Lingers a Few Hours Longer.

One of the most horrible and deplorable accidents to occur in New Iberia was 
that of last Sunday morning, March 10th, when an east bound Southern Pacific 
train ran into an auto driven by Mrs. (Dr.) Adolphe Landry of Delcambre and 
killed her instantly, while her little daughter Helen, aged four years was 
horribly mangled, both limbs being so badly lacerated that she died in the 
Shaw Sanitarium several hours later the same day.

Mrs. Landry, her son and brother-in-law Raoul Chauviere had reached the 
railroad crossing on Center Street and she either did not hear the 
approaching train, or else thought she had ample time to cross the track 
when her car was ran into and dragged a distance of one hundred and twenty 
feet or more, throwing all of the occupants out of the automobile. She fell 
across the track in such a way that her head was completely decapitated from 
her body, which became entangled under the coal car. The little girl fell 
across the track and both of its limbs were mashed to a pulp, while her son 
and brother-in-law came out of the wreck with scratches only.

When the accident became known, hundreds of people rushed to the scene and 
the little child was tenderly picked up and taken to physicians for 
attention. She was perfectly conscious and upon being asked her name, 
replied that she was a daughter of Dr. Landry of Delcambre.

The engine was in charge of Mr. A. C. Cayard and Conductor J. G.  F**ny of 
T****. No blame is attached to these gentlemen who were unable to stop their 
train in time to prevent the catastrophe. With the alarm signal given out as 
trains pass in that section of New Iberia it will never be known why the 
unfortunate lady and victim of the accident failed to stop her car before 
reaching the track. It is presumed that when she realized her predicament 
she put on the brake by mistake and then there was not time enough left to 
jump out of the danger.

Deceased was well-known in New Iberia. She was a daughter of Mrs. Alphonse 
LeBlanc of Abbeville, and leaves to survive her, besides her grief-stricken 
husband, three sisters, Mrs. Raoul Chauviere, Mrs. Samson Chauvin and Mrs. 
R. A. Dalton. The funeral ceremonies were conducted on Tuesday at the 
Delcambre Catholic church by Mgr. Guillet, of St. Paul Minnesota, assisted 
by Fathers Catherin of this City and Ballard of Abbeville and Coillard of 
Delxcambre.



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