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Chase County Obituaries
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Campbell, Mary Pearl
MARY PEARL CAMPBELL
The funeral service for Mary Campbell was held at the Presbyter- ian church in this city at 2:00 o'clock
Friday afternoon, with Rev. E. M. Scott, preaching the sermon.
Rev. Scotts's text was "This I Say Brethren, The Time is Short."
The students of the Chase County Community High
School attended the funeral in a body, and the members of the
Girls Glee club sang two numbers "Nearer My God, To Thee,and "Abide With Me".
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The pall-bearers were boys of the Sophomore class of the high school, Wilbur Stout, Billy McNee, Elmore Stout, Harold Finley. The funeral was one of the most largely attended to be held here in years.
Mary Pearl Campbell was born near Bazaar, Kansas, Oct 31 1913
and departed this life Saturday, Dec 06, at the age of 17 years, 2 months, and 12 days.
Death came to her very suddenly, when the auto in which she and her brother, John, Miss Charmoin Herr and Mr. Sam Robinson were riding was struck by a train on the Santa Fe west of Saffordville.
Miss Campbell was a member of the sophomore class in the Chase County Community High School and her teachers report that she was an excellent student. Her name was recorded on the honor roll all through her first year of high school and she ranked among the very highest in her class.Her name again appears on the honor roll during the last six weeks. As a student her record is outstanding. And so she came to the end of her life work.
She is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell, six brothers and three sisters, Jack,
Earl, Harry, John, Edward, Francis, Billy,
Lila and Lucy. Her eldest sister Bertha died some years ago.
Chase County Leader News, Dec 17 1930.
Mary Campbell Killed
When Train Hits
Auto
Mary and Three Companions
Struck by West-Bound Freight
at Saffordville Crossing Charmion Herr and John Campbell also injured
Mary Campbell, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell, of Bloody Creek, a sophomore in the Chase County Community High School, was killed almost instantly about 11:45 o'clock last Saturday night when a motor car in which she and three others were riding was "struck by a freight train at the Saffordville crossing on Trail No. 5O-S.
The other members in the car were Charmion Herr, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Herr, of this city; John Campbell, brother of Mary, and Sam Robinson, of Saffordville.
Sam Robinson was unhurt with the exception of a few minor bruises. John Campbell was seriously injured with head wounds, and Charmion Herr was also seriously wounded about the head and face. Both Charmion and John were unconscious and were rushed to the Newman Memorial Hospital. Charmion regained consciousness early Sunday morning and was able to relate to her parents some of the details of the accident when they visited her in the hospital. A little later John also regained consciousness and according to last reports from the hospital it is believed that both will recover shortly.
Charmion is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Herr and is a freshman in the Chase County Community High School. John Campbell is 21 and lived on the Miller farm on Bloody Creek with his parents where he helped his father.
Saturday evening the young people had attended the Picture show in this city and had gone to the Herr home. Shortly afterwards they left to take Mary to her home. After starting an the trip the young people decided they would motor east on Trail No. 10-S to meet Harry Campbell and Vivian Herr who had gone to Emporia earlier in the evening and were expected home about this time.
evidently missed the car in which Harry and Vivian were riding.
John was driving and approached the crossing at a speed too great for safety. I n making the turn to cross the tracks John applied the brakes and this caused the car to turn sharply to the left and turned over on its side as a west-bound freight train was approaching.
When the motor car turned over Mary Campbell and Sam Robison were thrown clear, but the other two occupants were pinned in the car.
The engineer on the Santa Fe freight train told Mr. Herr that he saw the girl—Mary Campbell—who was thrown clear of the track run to the car and try to open the door. He said that failing she ran to the side of the track again out of danger. He said that he believed she ran back to the car two more times in a desperate effort to get the door opened before the freight struck her and hurled the overturned car from the tracks. Although the engineer applied the brakes yet the engine hit the car with great force. The train was stopped as soon as possible and the train crew gave what assistance they could.
John Campbell and Charmion Herr were rushed to the Newman Memorial Hospital, and the body of Mary Campbell was bought to this city. Sam Robison was taken to the home of his brother, Tom Robison.
The injuries of Charmion Herr were an ugly cut on the head and severe bruises about the face and head. One of her knees was badly injured but no bones broken.
John Campbell suffered a long cut on the right side of his head and face and his upper jaw was broken and many of his front teeth knocked out. He also suffered several painful injuries about the body.
The car in which the young folks were driving was a Ford roadster and belonged to Sam Robison. It was almost completely demolished. The wreck was hauled to this city Sunday morning by the Hilton Motor Company.
In telling of the accident Sunday morning after she had regained consciousness, Charmion Herr told her parents that the car turned over and that she and John were pinned in so they could not get out. The next thing she knew, she said, was when the train hit the car and knocked it from the tracks, and tore off the door which they had tried to force open. That is all she remembers until she regained consciousness in the hospital several hours later.
MARY CAMPBELL KILLED BY TRAIN
Train Strikes Car at Saffordville Crossing
Chermoin Herr and John Campbell were in Hospital with Serious Injuries
Miss Mary Campbell, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Joe Campbell of Cottonwood Falls, was killed and her brother, John Campbell 21, and Miss Charmion Herr, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Herr of Cottonwood Falls, were seriously injured Saturday night about 11:45 o'clock when the car to which they were riding turned over on the tracks at the crossing west of Saffordville and was struck by a west bound freight train. Sam Robison of Cottonwood Falls was another occupant of the car but he was not injured.
John Campbell and Miss Herr are in the Newman Memorial Hospital at Empooria and both were getting along nicely Wednesday morning. John was hurt badly about the face. His teeth were knocked into his jaw bone and the jaw bone was split. A bad gash was cut in the right side of his face.
Charmion's worst injury is at her left knee which was badly lascerated about the knee-cap. Physicians in charge say her leg will be alright when it is healed. She received scalp wounds and was bruised all over her belly.
The four were returning from Emporia where they had been shopping when the accident occurred. They were in Sam Robison;s Ford roadster when the car struck the Santa Fe crossing west of Saffordville the car slipped and struck the rails on the north track, causing the car to turn over on its side. Mary Campbell and Sam Robinson were thrown clear of the wreck but Charmoin and John were caught under the steering wheel.
The car, which was not going fast, stopped with the front and on the south rail of the north tracks, just west of the crossing. A freight train was about at the depot in Saffordville and Mary and Robison
tried to get the other two out of the car. Robison took Mary away from the car twice because of the approach of the train, and when the train neared he thought Mary was back of him but instead of that she had run back to the car a third time, trying to free her brother and Charmian, and the train struck her. She died about 15 minutes after she was struck. The car was dragged about 60 feet before the train could be stopped.
Dr, C f Hoover of Saffordville was called out of bed by Ralph Myers and Hillman Amerine, who were returning from Emporia, and he took Charmian and John to the Emporia hospital after he had found that Mary was dead. The E Brown & Son ambulance had been called, and it brought Mary to Cottonwood Falls.
Mary was a sophomore and Charmian a freshman at the Chase County Community High School.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternnon at 2 o'clock in the Presbyterian church at Cottonwood Falls and interment will be in Prairie Grove Cemetery. Pall-bearers wll be boys from the Sophomore class at Chase County Community High School.
Mary Pearl Campbell was born Oct 01 1913 in Chase County. She is survived by her parents, Mr and Mrs Joe Campbell of Bloody Creek and nine brothers and sisters among whom is Earl Campbell who is comeing from San Diego, California to Cottonwood Falls for the funeral.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 06 1930.
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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