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Pickering Co dren, Betty, The whe Easily uple Lose: Lives, Ne Crossing Smash at Locust mE (By Stat! Reporter) Whitby, May 26.--As the result & double tragedy which took ace at the C.P.R, st Hill at ten o'clock this morn. , the bodies of Mr, and Mrs. ohn Adams, well known residents of Pickering Township, Town's Undertaking parlors here tonight, while three of their chil. Susan and Willlam, lie in Eat SHRE The ideal Just the thing Summer Cottage, splendid patterns, Comes in two sizes, Be 3h = 79¢ 256" x 0" fOr ,,,, On sale in the Base- ment Shop Japanese Lunch Cloths Japanese Dragon Pat- terns in Blue on nat- ural ground, Two sizes, bs" x 654" x 85 Patterns, Speci) 9c 25¢ crossing at Lo- hen Sr on brbakifast For spring RISCUIT~ tasted. with butter or cheese, 1} rp ye in the Western Hospital, Tor onto, suffering from serious ins Juries. Early i and Mrs, Adams and five children it is surmised, started out on a fenic party, driving in a Chev et touring car with side curtail |For some reason or another they did not hear or see the Canadian Pacific Railway train eastbound, and due at Locust Hill at 10.04 a.m. standard time. and their car was struck by the express and . most shattered, being dragge along the track about 40 or 50 feet, Mr, and Mrs. Adams were thrown out, likewise their children, but only three were seriously in- jured, and taken to the Western Hospital, in Toronto, the other twa who were also in the car, Bob and Ted, heing shaken up but were able to go home, The dead man had his neck broken, while his wife, though badly bruised, is Foods Now i "thought at this time, is understood, i to Pak died more ARoMbT. sgn. EL on the poor) ag party, but was a home when the tragedy 'occurreq. The crossing where the accident happened is right at Locust Hill, is level, and is said to be protect~ ed hy electric bells, while there NE good ew 9 ot iis trains pro- Mrs, the morning, Mr. | Cor ing next aa ham. The three Tiured laren were rendered first ald and ed ta the hospital in Toronto, and it was. sald that one child was not e to live, ; Members of the train crew, ft X slatmed att tan only were the crossi 8 ing, hut also the i Ag bell, ana that they did not observe the Adams' ear until it. was too late to stop. There had not been much trafic over the crossing in ques. tion up until the time of the ae- cident, Mr, and Mrs, Adams lived on a farm on the Audley road, sixth concession of the: Tewnship of Pickering, and were well known and highly esteemed, r. Adams was employed by Mr, G, N, Irwin, on what 1s known as part of the Fleming Farm, on the Kingston Highway, and recently purchased by Mr, George W, McLaughlin, of Oshawa. He was known as a sober and industrious man, and he and his wife were widély known. 'They were frequent visitors to Whithy and thelr tragic ending has caused widespread regret, Arrangements are being made for the funeral, which will, it is take place i 1from Whitby on Sunday afternoon, baked {three miles from '} Adams of R.R, 1, Toronto, May 26.--Death halted the holiday outing of a family of seven yesterday morning when a level-crossing smash at Locust Hill, Markham, took Mr. and Mrs, John Pickering, and of their the lives of critically injured three children, The father, aged 45, was in- Picnic and Summer Cottage Supplies at Special Prices for Saturday Selling Special Purchase of 80 Rag Rugs Karo Hose Three Different Qualities The $1.00 and $1.48 lines are pure silk with a 4 ply heel and sole, reinforced Silk, A perfect fitting, ankle knitted on a 260 point needle, You will find the $1.48 a finer quality Silk. The $1.95 Hose are a guaran- teed anti-run Hose, Full fashioned, Picot finish tops, The closest knit hose in the trade, Has an All Silk Foot reinforced with Lisle, Special Block Toe seintoread, Made o t mod- ern & OF 105 Tash od Don't forget-- satis- faction is guaranteed in every pair of Hose sold in this store, $1.00 $1.48 $1.95 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928 alot - Mrs, w x 18; Sw a. and Betty, 9, were rushed to the Toromto Western Hospital, where Betty i3 at the point of death. Two. other Shido, Robert, 13, and Teddy, 7, escaped unhurt, Sie another bon wichand, 11, not accompany party, Accident Near Station nad train No. 36, east-bound, was approaching the piv Aso to the two uninjured children, all the seven occupan the car, at Mr, Adam's kept a lookout until their au 0 tically on nang rn ana irons of the locomotive, fiva yards by the gine, and was the: upside tossed, dawn, in the ditch, erushing most | of its occupants beneath it, Crew Alls in Rescye From the platform of the near. by station and from the road sev. eral persons witnessed the smash, and in a few seconds the victims had been pulled from the wreck- age, The train was stopped im- mediately, and the crew rushed back to assist in the rescueu work, «R, Hoover, who resides bhe- side the crossing, witnessed, with his wife," the tragedy from his yard, and while he ran to the scene Mrs, Hoover telephoned Coroner Dr, J, A, McDonald, who arrived within a few minutes, When the doctor drove up Mr. and Mrs, Adams wera dead, the latter having died just after she was extricated from the wreckage Every possible attention was given the injured children and the two other boys, who were also render- ed unconscious hy the collision, and were at first thought to be seriously hurt, Rushed to Hospital Calls were put in for ambul- ances, and one arrived from Wear's Undertaking Parlors at Markham, followed hy another from Speers' in Toronto, The three injured children were at once rushed to the Western Hospital, all three being unconscious, The two others had by this time recov. ered sufficiently to be taken home y mator car, At the hospital the 98-year-old rl, Betty, was found to he the ost critically injured, she hav- ai suffered terrible head lacera- Jlons, a possible fracture of the kull and internal injuries, Possible Skull Fracture Billy, the 16-year-old hoy, suf- fered a possible skull fracture, a broken hand, deep gashes on his bead and other minor injuries. Susié, aged 12, has 8 broken col- lar hone, severs cuts on her head and a badly ipjured right arm. Billy and Susie became semi-con- sclous at the hospital, hut Betty remained unconscious, The remains of the parents were taken to a morgue at Mark- ham, after Coroner Dr. McDonald bad empanelled a jury at the rail- way station and had adjourned inqgeust until next Monday evens ing. Thirteen-year-old' Bobby Adams, one of the two who escaped injury in the crash, manfully retained his composure while telling how he remembered the accident as having happened, "The whole family of us had planned to go to Toronto for the day," he sald, "but my oldest brother Richard changed his mind at the last moment and so the rest of us set out in the car, "As we mpproached the crossing at Locust Hill, Daddy told all of us to keep a lookout for trains, so we did, but I'didn't see any come, Wo drove on to the track, and then saw the traln coming from the side where trees made it hard to see very far. "The train hit the automobile and pushed it along and into the ditch, but after that I don't re- member for 8 while. Then I re- member seeing people all around us, and Daddy was lying under the engine of the car, and my brothers and sisters were lying around. "Betty was lying across the New Silk Knit Headwear for Sports Wear "= "rus" NiP--ON JUBILEE SPORTS CAP for Children 75¢ W. A. DEWLAND Limited NiP--O-TAMS FOR THE : $L.50 MAIN FLOOR LA MYNONNE BERET FOR THE SPORTS WOMEN SL2§ | the bell while one was in & motor Ar. Blew Whistle, Says Engineer In a veport to the officials »f the CP.R., the engineer of the train, A. Connors of Toronto. declared Dorothy | a w minutes, rods from = . t the required distance of 80]said last night that mo official tag ar WN 155 bes nizer, was in the district di crossing, and Once Istatement of the acecidmet had as few days saw the motor car {yet been prepared, but that an in- Li wih leaf Keiins members of Walkerton, May 23. -- With two farmer candidates in the field im approaching, He added that as|vestization would proceed today. party. , Shoal the automobile moved on to the est bo decided upon, the whom the Livery { South Bruce, ¥. G. Moffatt, Conser- | candidate might be Frank Rennie, of vative, and M. A. McCallum, Progres- tracks it seemed to come to a stop a Sie. i Walkerton, who carried the seat by almost immediately struck by the sive, Liberals of the riding are said | 800 in 1919 against two oppoments. ] to be discussing the advisability of | J. J. 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