DEAF MAN KILLED BY PENNSY TRAIN
Reno Arrowsmith, Detroit, Victim; Mute Companion Jumps to Safety.
-- Reno Arrowsmith, 35, deaf and mute, who resided in Detroit, was killed about 8:30 Thursday morning when struck by Pennsylvania passenger train No. 537 while he was walking with another man who could not hear or speak, Clayton Mills, also of Detroit, near Fisher Station.
-- Arrowsmith and his companion had been in Grand Rapids and were planning to board a freight train for Chicago to visit Arrowsmith's wife.
-- The companion said he did not see the approaching train, but leaped from the tracks when he felt the vibrations. Mills was too far away from Arrowsmith to warn him; although the latter apparently felt the vibrations just before he was struck because he attempted to leap from the tracks.
-- The body was taken to the Clarence D. Sullivan mortuary.
Source:
Copied from the Grand Rapids Press Newspaper- Aug, 24, 1933- Pg 8
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Note:
Reno was one of the original founders of DAD - Detroit Association of the Deaf Club-1916
- DAD is one of the oldest U.S. established deaf organizations based in Detroit, Michigan.
Also, starting in 1918, he was a tool maker/machinist at the Ford Highland Park Plant, which was the birthplace of the moving assembly line.
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Name Verification:
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: RENO CLEO ARROWSMITH ..... (His signature)
Race: White
Birth Date: 29 Sep 1897
Street address: 83 E. High
Residence Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Color: Light
Eye Color: Grey
Disqualified: Deaf
Signed: 9/12/18
Relative: Dora Arrowsmith, Odin, Illinois, mother
Employment: Machinist at Ford Motor Co., Woodward Ave., Highland Park, MI
*Middle name is Cleo on US draft sign up.
Also, found middle name as Clinton from school records and Clinton/Clayton from other sources.
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The Deaf-mutes' journal (May 11, 1922)
VOLUME L I - Published Every Thursday at Ft. Washington Ave. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922. Subscription Price, $2 a year
NUMBER 19 - Front page, 2nd column
For downright nerve and grit, Reno Arrowsmith takes first prize. He quit Ford when wages were higher at other auto plants during the war. He regretted that foolish move of his after the war, as he was laid off among the thousands. Getting back at Ford was harder than finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Repeated efforts failed.
Then in desperation, when Ford announced they would hire 5,000 men and looking at the long line of unemployed four abreast awaiting their turn to get in the employment office. Reno's nerve then came in play. Knowing the factory well, he entered the entrance of the factory hospital. The guard there thinking he was sick, and seeing he was deaf and dumb, passed him through. Reno made his way to his old superintendent, put the Cold facts before him, and as he is a good mechanic, was given his old job back again.
Reno Arrowsmith, Detroit, Victim; Mute Companion Jumps to Safety.
-- Reno Arrowsmith, 35, deaf and mute, who resided in Detroit, was killed about 8:30 Thursday morning when struck by Pennsylvania passenger train No. 537 while he was walking with another man who could not hear or speak, Clayton Mills, also of Detroit, near Fisher Station.
-- Arrowsmith and his companion had been in Grand Rapids and were planning to board a freight train for Chicago to visit Arrowsmith's wife.
-- The companion said he did not see the approaching train, but leaped from the tracks when he felt the vibrations. Mills was too far away from Arrowsmith to warn him; although the latter apparently felt the vibrations just before he was struck because he attempted to leap from the tracks.
-- The body was taken to the Clarence D. Sullivan mortuary.
Source:
Copied from the Grand Rapids Press Newspaper- Aug, 24, 1933- Pg 8
**********************************
Note:
Reno was one of the original founders of DAD - Detroit Association of the Deaf Club-1916
- DAD is one of the oldest U.S. established deaf organizations based in Detroit, Michigan.
Also, starting in 1918, he was a tool maker/machinist at the Ford Highland Park Plant, which was the birthplace of the moving assembly line.
**********************************
Name Verification:
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: RENO CLEO ARROWSMITH ..... (His signature)
Race: White
Birth Date: 29 Sep 1897
Street address: 83 E. High
Residence Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Color: Light
Eye Color: Grey
Disqualified: Deaf
Signed: 9/12/18
Relative: Dora Arrowsmith, Odin, Illinois, mother
Employment: Machinist at Ford Motor Co., Woodward Ave., Highland Park, MI
*Middle name is Cleo on US draft sign up.
Also, found middle name as Clinton from school records and Clinton/Clayton from other sources.
***********************************
The Deaf-mutes' journal (May 11, 1922)
VOLUME L I - Published Every Thursday at Ft. Washington Ave. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922. Subscription Price, $2 a year
NUMBER 19 - Front page, 2nd column
For downright nerve and grit, Reno Arrowsmith takes first prize. He quit Ford when wages were higher at other auto plants during the war. He regretted that foolish move of his after the war, as he was laid off among the thousands. Getting back at Ford was harder than finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Repeated efforts failed.
Then in desperation, when Ford announced they would hire 5,000 men and looking at the long line of unemployed four abreast awaiting their turn to get in the employment office. Reno's nerve then came in play. Knowing the factory well, he entered the entrance of the factory hospital. The guard there thinking he was sick, and seeing he was deaf and dumb, passed him through. Reno made his way to his old superintendent, put the Cold facts before him, and as he is a good mechanic, was given his old job back again.
DEAF MAN KILLED BY PENNSY TRAIN
Reno Arrowsmith, Detroit, Victim; Mute Companion Jumps to Safety.
-- Reno Arrowsmith, 35, deaf and mute, who resided in Detroit, was killed about 8:30 Thursday morning when struck by Pennsylvania passenger train No. 537 while he was walking with another man who could not hear or speak, Clayton Mills, also of Detroit, near Fisher Station.
-- Arrowsmith and his companion had been in Grand Rapids and were planning to board a freight train for Chicago to visit Arrowsmith's wife.
-- The companion said he did not see the approaching train, but leaped from the tracks when he felt the vibrations. Mills was too far away from Arrowsmith to warn him; although the latter apparently felt the vibrations just before he was struck because he attempted to leap from the tracks.
-- The body was taken to the Clarence D. Sullivan mortuary.
Source:
Copied from the Grand Rapids Press Newspaper- Aug, 24, 1933- Pg 8
**********************************
Note:
Reno was one of the original founders of DAD - Detroit Association of the Deaf Club-1916
- DAD is one of the oldest U.S. established deaf organizations based in Detroit, Michigan.
Also, starting in 1918, he was a tool maker/machinist at the Ford Highland Park Plant, which was the birthplace of the moving assembly line.
**********************************
Name Verification:
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: RENO CLEO ARROWSMITH ..... (His signature)
Race: White
Birth Date: 29 Sep 1897
Street address: 83 E. High
Residence Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Color: Light
Eye Color: Grey
Disqualified: Deaf
Signed: 9/12/18
Relative: Dora Arrowsmith, Odin, Illinois, mother
Employment: Machinist at Ford Motor Co., Woodward Ave., Highland Park, MI
*Middle name is Cleo on US draft sign up.
Also, found middle name as Clinton from school records and Clinton/Clayton from other sources.
***********************************
The Deaf-mutes' journal (May 11, 1922)
VOLUME L I - Published Every Thursday at Ft. Washington Ave. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922. Subscription Price, $2 a year
NUMBER 19 - Front page, 2nd column
For downright nerve and grit, Reno Arrowsmith takes first prize. He quit Ford when wages were higher at other auto plants during the war. He regretted that foolish move of his after the war, as he was laid off among the thousands. Getting back at Ford was harder than finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Repeated efforts failed.
Then in desperation, when Ford announced they would hire 5,000 men and looking at the long line of unemployed four abreast awaiting their turn to get in the employment office. Reno's nerve then came in play. Knowing the factory well, he entered the entrance of the factory hospital. The guard there thinking he was sick, and seeing he was deaf and dumb, passed him through. Reno made his way to his old superintendent, put the Cold facts before him, and as he is a good mechanic, was given his old job back again.
Reno Arrowsmith, Detroit, Victim; Mute Companion Jumps to Safety.
-- Reno Arrowsmith, 35, deaf and mute, who resided in Detroit, was killed about 8:30 Thursday morning when struck by Pennsylvania passenger train No. 537 while he was walking with another man who could not hear or speak, Clayton Mills, also of Detroit, near Fisher Station.
-- Arrowsmith and his companion had been in Grand Rapids and were planning to board a freight train for Chicago to visit Arrowsmith's wife.
-- The companion said he did not see the approaching train, but leaped from the tracks when he felt the vibrations. Mills was too far away from Arrowsmith to warn him; although the latter apparently felt the vibrations just before he was struck because he attempted to leap from the tracks.
-- The body was taken to the Clarence D. Sullivan mortuary.
Source:
Copied from the Grand Rapids Press Newspaper- Aug, 24, 1933- Pg 8
**********************************
Note:
Reno was one of the original founders of DAD - Detroit Association of the Deaf Club-1916
- DAD is one of the oldest U.S. established deaf organizations based in Detroit, Michigan.
Also, starting in 1918, he was a tool maker/machinist at the Ford Highland Park Plant, which was the birthplace of the moving assembly line.
**********************************
Name Verification:
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: RENO CLEO ARROWSMITH ..... (His signature)
Race: White
Birth Date: 29 Sep 1897
Street address: 83 E. High
Residence Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Physical Build: Medium
Height: Medium
Hair Color: Light
Eye Color: Grey
Disqualified: Deaf
Signed: 9/12/18
Relative: Dora Arrowsmith, Odin, Illinois, mother
Employment: Machinist at Ford Motor Co., Woodward Ave., Highland Park, MI
*Middle name is Cleo on US draft sign up.
Also, found middle name as Clinton from school records and Clinton/Clayton from other sources.
***********************************
The Deaf-mutes' journal (May 11, 1922)
VOLUME L I - Published Every Thursday at Ft. Washington Ave. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922. Subscription Price, $2 a year
NUMBER 19 - Front page, 2nd column
For downright nerve and grit, Reno Arrowsmith takes first prize. He quit Ford when wages were higher at other auto plants during the war. He regretted that foolish move of his after the war, as he was laid off among the thousands. Getting back at Ford was harder than finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. Repeated efforts failed.
Then in desperation, when Ford announced they would hire 5,000 men and looking at the long line of unemployed four abreast awaiting their turn to get in the employment office. Reno's nerve then came in play. Knowing the factory well, he entered the entrance of the factory hospital. The guard there thinking he was sick, and seeing he was deaf and dumb, passed him through. Reno made his way to his old superintendent, put the Cold facts before him, and as he is a good mechanic, was given his old job back again.
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