Hopkinsville (KY) Kentuckian, September 15, 1914, p. 1.
SIX KILLED BY TRAIN
Accident at Austin, Ind., Was Fatal to Members of a Kentucky Family
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 14-Four persons were killed outright and two others
died from their injuries within a few hours when a Pennsylvania passenger
train hit an automobile at a railroad crossing in Austin, Ind., Thursday.
Those instantly killed were: Ellsworth Belch, Dayton, Ky.; Mrs. Ellsworth
Belch, Dayton, Ky.; Miss Amelia Belch, 20-year-old daughter of Ellsworth
Belch, Dayton Ky.; Mrs. Mary Belch, sixty years old, Austin, Ind., relative
of Ellworth Belch.
The following received injuries from which they died while being taken on a
special train to the hospital at Seymour, Ind.: Beulah Robbins, fourteen
years old, an orphan child, Austin, Ind.; Leona Trulock, twelve years old,
Austin, Ind., daughter of Marshall Trulock.
The auto was in charge of Mr. Ellsworth Belch who had left his home in
Dayton, Ky., a few days ago to visit relatives in Austin. He was at the
wheel and was taking the party for a drive. As the car was crossing the
railroad tracks, the engine stopped and, before the passengers could get
out, the train struck the motor car crushing it to splinters and scattering
the occupants in every direction. The engineer of the train, seeing the car
stalled on the track, made every effort to stop the train but without avail.
Witnesses of the accident say that Mr. Ellsworth's view of the track was
obscured by a cutoff freight cars and that he could not see the approaching
train.