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A Sad Accident

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
July
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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8TBUCK 1!V AX l-;,fIX! Ei.miiia. N.Y.,Julj 88.- A p-'.-nliarly diatressing accident occurred uulav evcniii : aboul H o'clock at a cv i iing of the Erie road ni?ar Eldridfc park in which four i'i'i'.-ons wcit . and two so M'ritiuslv injmv.l that death i expected ui aay moment. Rev. Wellington White, whose residence is on (rovo street. startcd out to drive, haring with him Mrs. White, thuir three children, Ilattie Haetings, a daughter of a neighbbr, and Busie McCarthy, a nurse girl. Approaching the crossing of the railroad a fretght train which had been cut in two to allow entrance to the park occupied the nearer track. Seeing1 an 1 hearing nothing indicative of danger. Mr. White drove between the halves of the freight train upon the other track just in time to be struek by the Erie passenger train, Xo. 24, from the west. Mr. White, his daughter Lillian, aged 9; Hattie Hastings, aged 9, and Susie McCarthy, aged 12, were instantly killed. Mrs. White and a child 2 years old received fractures of the skĂșll and terrible bruises. They cannot recover. Rev. Wellington White was a clergyman who graduated at Amherst college and the New York Theological seminary, and had spent ten years in missionary work in China, lie was at home on leave of absence.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register