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ESCAPE DEATH BY LEAPING AS TRAIN HITS CARA Hammond couple narrowly escaped death, under the wheels of a Nickle Plate passenger train Saturday night and one man was severely Injured and passengers of a Greyhound bus bruised in a traffic collision last night, according to two accident reports by Hammond’! police over the week-end. ■The local couple who jumped from their car just before a Nickle Plate passenger train demolished the auto is Mr. and Mrs. Chester Tompkins, 8 Carrol street.; Driving his coupe north on Calumet avenue at midnight Saturday night, Tompkins was unable to stop when the gates,at the Nickle Plate crossing were lowered.. Applying his brakes, Tompkins skidded through the south gates onto the track, along which the east bound passenger was speeding. Tompkins and his wife jumped from the car and a moment later the train, hit the machine. Mrs. Tompkins suffered a bruised knee in escaping from the doomed auto.Frank Krajewski, 3819 Fir street, Indiana Harbor, suffered bad cuts about the head and face last evening when a .skidding Greyhound coach rammed the rear of his light sedan at Calumet aveniie, near 118th street, Robertsdale. A dozen occupants of the bus were bruised.Harry D. £)avis, Chicago, driver of the bus, told Officers Demlong and Uzubelf of the Hammond p'olice that he was traveling south on Calumet when Krajewski stopped in front of him. Davis applied his brakes arid the heavy coach swung around, the side of the bus hitting the rear of Krajewski’s car.- Krajewski was taken : to the office of Div D. W. Bopp in Whiting and later removed to SU Margaret's hospital.
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Whiting Evening Times
Whiting, Indiana, US
Mon, Feb 25, 1929
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