Two School Students Killed

Harry Clark, of South Lyon, a senior student of the Anti Arbor high school, Miss Sarah J. Fisher, of Ypsilanti, who is a student at the Normal school, and Miss Ethel Just, were driving near the D., G. 11. & W. railway crossing just north of South Lyon, on Monday morning about 9 o'clock, when the horses becoming unmanageable, they rushed onto the track in front of au approaching train. The carriage was literally smashed into kindling wood. Miss Fisher had both her legs eut off and she received internal injuries which killed almost instantly, life being extinct when she was picked up. Mr. Clark was unconscious when picked up and died live minutes later. The bodies of the two young people were carried 75 feet along the track. Miss .lust had one of her feet crushed and received injuries about the eyes and face. The horses had got fully across the track and were, therefore, uninjured. Dr. Ranney, of Lausing, división surgeon of the 1)., G. K. & W. railway, and surgeons from South Lyon were promptly on the scène and attended to the dead and injured. Mr. Clark was well and favorably known among his fellow students at the high school and was a member of H. G. I'rettyman's household. Miss Fisher was a resident of Ypsilanti, having come tliere from South Lyon three years ago with her mother and sister. She entered the Normal in the fall of of 1895 and would have been a junior in the institution at the end of the present school year. She was a particularly bright student and the fatal accident casts a gloom about the entire school. She was 19 years of age last July. She had been spending the Easter vacation with friends in South Lyon, and had originally intended to return to Ypsilanti Saturday, but was prevailed upon to remain oveiSunday Twenty-two years ago at tlte sanie crossiug. the Beach brothers, of Greei Oak, were killed by an eastbound train. Edward Spenoe, of Ypsilanti, ha been grauted an iucreasc of pension.