USGENWEB NOTICE:  In keeping with our policy of providing free information
on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long
as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may
NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other
organizations.


FIVE KILLED IN CROSSING
    NEAR HOLGATE

   Five yound people killed at the 
B. & O. crossing at Holgate last 
Thursday ngiht.  The young people were
going home in a Ford car and when they
crossed the B. & O. tracks a freight
car which was being switched caught
them, tearing the Ford to pieces and
killing all the occupants.  The freight
car was only going five miles and hour.
The people who met death were Cecelia
Royal, 14; Frank Royal, 18; Virgil
Brown, 17; Thelma Seimet, 15; and Larry
Schwab, 17.  These were all residents
of New Bavaria and were high school
students.
   This is only another lesson as
to how careful people ought to
be at crossings.  We noticed about two
weeks ago a freight doing switching on 
the D. T. & I. at a cross road and the
engine pulling the freight, uncoupled
itself just before it came to the 
crossing.  The engine moved ahead while
the cars followed slowly behind.  An
automobile waiting at the tracks was
just about ready to pass thru the gap
when the freight cars passed over the
road.  Being at night the cars could
not be seen.  The road was not guarded
at the time.
----