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A sad accident occurred Wednesday morning, ab '-ut six o’clock, at the West avenue crossing of the Lake Shore railroad. Mrs. John Schubert, who Iive9 on the town line between Elyria and Am herst. had brought two crates of cherries to town, and sold them, and had purchased some groceries and started on her way home. As she was crossing the railroad at West Avenue, engine No. 149, Jan. Cass, engineer, came along at a thirty-mile an hour gain, and struck the vehicle throwing Mrs. Schubert nearly sixty feet and killing her instantly. The wagon was smashed and one horse was killed and the other injured badly. Mrs. Schubert was thirty-six years old and leaves a husband and three children to mourn her loss. It does seem as if it was about time that something was done to compel the railroad company to put up a gate at this crossing and keep a watchman at this point both night and day. Not only at West Avenue classing but the danger is just as great at Mill street and Washington avenne The matter of asking the railroad company to erect safety gates and placing a watchman at West avenue has been discussed by the council for a number of years, but up to the present time nothing has been accomplished. During the past year three lives have been sacrificed at this crowing, and it is apparent to everybody that something must be done to protect people who have occasion to crow the track at this point. Why this delay? There must be some way to compel railroad corporations to obey the laws as well at tad i rid a a Is. Let the council make the demand, of the Lake Shore company for better protection to life and property at West avenue, Mill street and WanWngtoa avtnae, and if it is not complied with at once, compelthem to do it.
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Lorain County Reporter
Elyria, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 08, 1893
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