From Rick B
Monday, January 17, 2005
"The South Bend Tribune", Monday evening, April 25, 1938, page 8
GRILLO TO OPEN CRASH INQUEST
Train Crew Will Be Questioned By Coroner.
Inquest into the South Shore train-automobile crash which claimed the lives of a
father and two of his children in Lydick, this county, Saturday afternoon will be opened
by Coroner Donald Grillo Wednesday morning.
Those killed were Paul L. Durling, aged 40, Chicago; Caroline, six, and Peter, four.
They died instantly as a westbound Chicago, South Shore & South Bend railroad train
hit the sedan in which they were riding.
Train crew members to be questioned by Coroner Grillo include Motorman H. Eikelberg
and Conductor Joseph T. Marvinske, both of Michigan City, Ind.
The Durling family, including the widow, Mrs. Blanche Durling; another son, Bradley,
13, and Mrs. Durling's mother, Mrs. Florence Cannell went to their cottage on north
Chain lakes Saturday afternoon to spend a week vacation.
The bodies were sent Sunday to the Bilger mortuary in Chicago for funeral rites.