A
very distressing accident occurred on the Lake Erie & Northern
Railway, a short distance north of Waterford, on Sunday night. The
victim was the wife of J. A. Snively, an old and respected resident of this community.
Mr. and Mrs. Snively at one
time lived in Townsend and they have two married daughters there,
one being Mrs. Geo. Limage, the other Mrs. Gordon Bonham.
The couple took the one
o'clock car from Simcoe and spent the day at Boston with Mr. and
Mrs. Limage.
Mr. Bonham was also there,
and when it came time he took Mr. and Mrs. Snively to the Lutesville
stopping place in his auto. He went on to his own home, leaving the
couple to wait for the car due in Simcoe at 10.43.
When their son-in-law left
them, there was still some 15 minutes to the time of the car's
arrival. Mr. and Mrs. Snively decided to walk along to the next stop, where there was a shelter.
They had gotten down almost
to the Grove Union stop when the car was heard behind them.
Mr. Snively waved his
umbrella and stepped off one side of the track, his wife got off the
other side. The car ran along a short
distance and stopped. As the car cleared where he was standing Mr.
Snively heard his wife moaning in the ditch, the first intimation he
had of anything having happened.
She had gotten off the track,
but not far enough, and the steps of the car had struck her
violently across the thighs. She was taken onto the car
and hurried to Simcoe, medical aid being asked for by
telephone. The unfortunate woman,
however, was beyond all human help and she expired in the Simcoe
station five minutes after the car reached here.
Besides the two daughters
mentioned above, and her husband, deceased is survived by a son,
Private Bruce Snively of the 133rd Battalion.
She was a daughter of a
former Baptist clergyman well known in Norfolk, named Folger. She was in
her 62nd year.
An inquest has been decided
upon with Dr. Richardson as coroner. A jury was empanelled consisting of L. L.
Earl, foreman, W. H. Youman, W. Elwood, F. Elwood,
Arthur West, E. E. Collins, Jas. Murphy, Wm. Rogers and Jas. Kellum.
The jury met and viewed the
body on Monday, then adjourned until tomorrow evening, when the evidence will be taken at the town council chamber.
