Occupants Escape

Death In Clash When

The Car Is Demolished.

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ACCIDENT OCCURS ON CENTER ST. CROSSING

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C. &. N. W. R. R. Co.

Are Conducting A

Thorough Investigation.

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Miraculously escaping instant death when the Ford Coupe in which they were riding collided with the Northwestern passenger train Friday afternoon, Jos. Boettger and Arthur Zarn are suffering minor injuries. The accidents occurred Friday afternoon about 3:30 on the railway crossing on Center Street. The car was almost completely demolished and the injured men were taken immediately to the Loretto Hospital where Boettger is recovering from a scalp wound and a wrenched back. Zarn was able to leave the hospital Saturday morning,having sustained only a broken nose and body bruises.

Clash on Center St, Crossing.

Boettger and Zarn had been shelling feed corn at the Minnesota Seed Company for a nephew of the former, Albert Boettger, a young farmer residing near this city. They had completed their work and started up town. After they had crossed the tracks, Boettger found that he had forgotten his mittens and immediately turned the car around to go back for them. He evidently did not hear the train whistle, or was so absorbed in his intention to return for the mittens, that he only got the car half across the track when the engine struck them. The car was carried for some feet and thrown up against a telephone pole. As near as can be learned this is the manner in which the accident occurred. No one had been found who witnessed the collision but an investigation is being made by the railroad company.

Occupants Luck.

After hearing of the accident, many residents of this city recalled the shrill whistling of the train, they having remarked at the time how clearly the whistle could be heard, owing to atmospheric conditions. After viewing the wrecked automobile, it is to be wondered how the occupants ever escaped with their lives. It will be impossible to repair the car.

New Ulm Review,

December 17, 1924

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