Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beebe, Lyle February 11, 1917
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Niles Daily Star, Monday, Feb. 12, 1917, page 1
Niles Daily Star, Monday, Feb. 12, 1917, page 1

LONG, BRAVE STUGGLE FOR LIFE IS ENDED IN DEATH OF LYLE BEEBE

Succumbs to Injuries Received When Interurban Car Struck Automobile on Walton’s
Crossing, August 11, 1916

	Lyle Beebe, the 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A.R. Beebe, who reside north of
town, died at 4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon at St. Joseph hospital, South
Bend, from injuries sustained when an automobile in which he was riding with the
late Frank Sparks was run down by an interurban car at Walton’s crossing on the
11th day of last August.  The boy had since put up a long, brave fight for life,
but medical science was powerless to avoid the fatal termination toward which
the case steadily tended.
	The citizens of town and countryside have profound sympathy for the parents and
brother of the boy, who has been cut down in life’s full morning.
	The body was brought home last evening by Undertaker Price, and funeral
services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock from the house.
Details of Tragedy
	The following clipping from the Daily Star of Aug. 11, 1916, recalls the
details of the tragedy at Walton’s crossing:
	If Walton’s crossing on the line of the Southern Michigan Railway company is
hereafter known as “Death Crossing,” it will be because it received its baptism
of blood this afternoon, when the life of Frank Sparks, a well known farmer, who
resided four and one-half miles northwest of town, was snuffed out, and Lyle
Beebe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Beebe, who reside in the same neighborhood,
was terribly injured by the northbound interurban car.  Mr. Sparks, who was 62
years of age, and Lyle Beebe, a 13 year old boy, were coming to town in the
former’s Ford car, when the accident occurred.  The interurban car swung around
the sharp curve and struck the automobile, hurling it against an embankment
about 20 feet from the interurban tracks.  Both of Mr. Spark’s legs were broken,
and the bones protruded through the flesh.  He was otherwise mutilated and died
without regaining consciousness.  The Beebe boy had a leg broken and was cut up
so badly that John Wynn, who helped place him in an automobile and accompanied
to Dr. van Noppen’s sanitarium, did not recognize him.  Mr. Wynn was dumfounded
when he learned that the men who were victims of the accident were neighbors.
	At this writing, Dr. van Noppen and Dr. Homer Carr are bandaging Lyle Beebe’s
wounds.  Undertaker Price has gone to Walton’s Crossing to take charge of the
body of the late Mr. Sparks, who death will prove a profound shock to the entire
countryside.  Mr. Sparks leaves a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Butts, who resides
northwest of town.  
	Walton’s Crossing forms a veritable ambush, by reason of high banks and foliage
that prevents the approach of an interurban car from being seen by drivers of
vehicles on the highway, and numerous accidents have happened there.





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