SOURCE: Death Certificate: Daughter of BL & Emily (La Mott) Robinson
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Women and Five Children Killed When Train Hits Car at Forsyth
Forsyth, MT., 10/25/1928 Thursday Front Page
Owner of Automobile, Assistant Principal of High School, Fails to See the Approaching Freight. Three Other Occupants of Vehicle Are Injured. Locomotive Is Damaged.
Forsyth, MT. 10/25/1928
Mrs. Ralph Abbott, 50, assistant principal at the Howard high school, 10 miles west of Forsyth, and five school children were killed on their way home from school this afternoon when Mrs. Abbott's car in which they were riding was struck by a local freight train at the Northern Pacific crossing at Howard.
Besides Mrs. Abbott the dead are: Emery Abbott 14, Richard Robinson 8, Marguerite Virgin 8, Mildred Simmons 7, Betty Lou Ferguson 6.
The injured are: Mary Sain 17 with a broken leg, Margaret Robinson 9 with minor injuries, and Georgia Abbott 12 with a broken broken leg.
The dead boy and injured girl are the son and daughter of Mrs. Abbott.
Mrs. Abott was driving a small touring car with curtains up and obscuring her vision of the track when she stopped at the crossing to await passage of a car going in the opposite direction.
As she started across she apparently did not see the oncoming freight, for it struck the car squarely and carried it down the track for a distance of about 300 yards, scattering the nine occupants along the right-of-way.
One of the bodies, that of a boy, was mutilated almost beyond recognition.
The car was reduced to a mass of warped and twisted steel and wood splinters.
The engine pilot was torn off by the impact.
The dead and injured were brought to Forsyth shortly after the accident.
An inquest was held at the scene of the accident by Coroner F.M. Booth, but findings were not returned pending more complete inquiry.
William Cavenger was engineer and J.B. Flanigan, conductor, of the freight train.
Both live here.
Mrs. Abbott had been teaching at Howard for but a short time.
Her husband is a salesman for a brush company and two elder daughters have been attending high school in Billings.
The couple came to Montana 20 years ago, settling on a ranch south of Miles City, from which they moved a year ago.
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Women and Five Children Killed When Train Hits Car at Forsyth
Forsyth, MT., 10/25/1928 Thursday Front Page
Owner of Automobile, Assistant Principal of High School, Fails to See the Approaching Freight. Three Other Occupants of Vehicle Are Injured. Locomotive Is Damaged.
Forsyth, MT. 10/25/1928
Mrs. Ralph Abbott, 50, assistant principal at the Howard high school, 10 miles west of Forsyth, and five school children were killed on their way home from school this afternoon when Mrs. Abbott's car in which they were riding was struck by a local freight train at the Northern Pacific crossing at Howard.
Besides Mrs. Abbott the dead are: Emery Abbott 14, Richard Robinson 8, Marguerite Virgin 8, Mildred Simmons 7, Betty Lou Ferguson 6.
The injured are: Mary Sain 17 with a broken leg, Margaret Robinson 9 with minor injuries, and Georgia Abbott 12 with a broken broken leg.
The dead boy and injured girl are the son and daughter of Mrs. Abbott.
Mrs. Abott was driving a small touring car with curtains up and obscuring her vision of the track when she stopped at the crossing to await passage of a car going in the opposite direction.
As she started across she apparently did not see the oncoming freight, for it struck the car squarely and carried it down the track for a distance of about 300 yards, scattering the nine occupants along the right-of-way.
One of the bodies, that of a boy, was mutilated almost beyond recognition.
The car was reduced to a mass of warped and twisted steel and wood splinters.
The engine pilot was torn off by the impact.
The dead and injured were brought to Forsyth shortly after the accident.
An inquest was held at the scene of the accident by Coroner F.M. Booth, but findings were not returned pending more complete inquiry.
William Cavenger was engineer and J.B. Flanigan, conductor, of the freight train.
Both live here.
Mrs. Abbott had been teaching at Howard for but a short time.
Her husband is a salesman for a brush company and two elder daughters have been attending high school in Billings.
The couple came to Montana 20 years ago, settling on a ranch south of Miles City, from which they moved a year ago.
SOURCE: Death Certificate: Daughter of BL & Emily (La Mott) Robinson
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Women and Five Children Killed When Train Hits Car at Forsyth
Forsyth, MT., 10/25/1928 Thursday Front Page
Owner of Automobile, Assistant Principal of High School, Fails to See the Approaching Freight. Three Other Occupants of Vehicle Are Injured. Locomotive Is Damaged.
Forsyth, MT. 10/25/1928
Mrs. Ralph Abbott, 50, assistant principal at the Howard high school, 10 miles west of Forsyth, and five school children were killed on their way home from school this afternoon when Mrs. Abbott's car in which they were riding was struck by a local freight train at the Northern Pacific crossing at Howard.
Besides Mrs. Abbott the dead are: Emery Abbott 14, Richard Robinson 8, Marguerite Virgin 8, Mildred Simmons 7, Betty Lou Ferguson 6.
The injured are: Mary Sain 17 with a broken leg, Margaret Robinson 9 with minor injuries, and Georgia Abbott 12 with a broken broken leg.
The dead boy and injured girl are the son and daughter of Mrs. Abbott.
Mrs. Abott was driving a small touring car with curtains up and obscuring her vision of the track when she stopped at the crossing to await passage of a car going in the opposite direction.
As she started across she apparently did not see the oncoming freight, for it struck the car squarely and carried it down the track for a distance of about 300 yards, scattering the nine occupants along the right-of-way.
One of the bodies, that of a boy, was mutilated almost beyond recognition.
The car was reduced to a mass of warped and twisted steel and wood splinters.
The engine pilot was torn off by the impact.
The dead and injured were brought to Forsyth shortly after the accident.
An inquest was held at the scene of the accident by Coroner F.M. Booth, but findings were not returned pending more complete inquiry.
William Cavenger was engineer and J.B. Flanigan, conductor, of the freight train.
Both live here.
Mrs. Abbott had been teaching at Howard for but a short time.
Her husband is a salesman for a brush company and two elder daughters have been attending high school in Billings.
The couple came to Montana 20 years ago, settling on a ranch south of Miles City, from which they moved a year ago.
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Women and Five Children Killed When Train Hits Car at Forsyth
Forsyth, MT., 10/25/1928 Thursday Front Page
Owner of Automobile, Assistant Principal of High School, Fails to See the Approaching Freight. Three Other Occupants of Vehicle Are Injured. Locomotive Is Damaged.
Forsyth, MT. 10/25/1928
Mrs. Ralph Abbott, 50, assistant principal at the Howard high school, 10 miles west of Forsyth, and five school children were killed on their way home from school this afternoon when Mrs. Abbott's car in which they were riding was struck by a local freight train at the Northern Pacific crossing at Howard.
Besides Mrs. Abbott the dead are: Emery Abbott 14, Richard Robinson 8, Marguerite Virgin 8, Mildred Simmons 7, Betty Lou Ferguson 6.
The injured are: Mary Sain 17 with a broken leg, Margaret Robinson 9 with minor injuries, and Georgia Abbott 12 with a broken broken leg.
The dead boy and injured girl are the son and daughter of Mrs. Abbott.
Mrs. Abott was driving a small touring car with curtains up and obscuring her vision of the track when she stopped at the crossing to await passage of a car going in the opposite direction.
As she started across she apparently did not see the oncoming freight, for it struck the car squarely and carried it down the track for a distance of about 300 yards, scattering the nine occupants along the right-of-way.
One of the bodies, that of a boy, was mutilated almost beyond recognition.
The car was reduced to a mass of warped and twisted steel and wood splinters.
The engine pilot was torn off by the impact.
The dead and injured were brought to Forsyth shortly after the accident.
An inquest was held at the scene of the accident by Coroner F.M. Booth, but findings were not returned pending more complete inquiry.
William Cavenger was engineer and J.B. Flanigan, conductor, of the freight train.
Both live here.
Mrs. Abbott had been teaching at Howard for but a short time.
Her husband is a salesman for a brush company and two elder daughters have been attending high school in Billings.
The couple came to Montana 20 years ago, settling on a ranch south of Miles City, from which they moved a year ago.
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