MRS. AMANDA RICHARDSON HIT BY UNATTACHED COACH, GRANDDAUGHTER UNHURT
MARY RICHARDSON SAW CAR IN TIME TO ESCAPE INJURY
The verdict in the Richardson case as returned by the jury this afternoon at 2:56 o'clock read as follows: "We think from the evidence introduced that the accident was caused by negligence on the part of the trainmen in making a flying switch without having a in front of the coach to give warning to the public. The trainmen absolutely refused to give their testimony at the inquest.
Mrs. Amanda Richardson, wife of John T. Richardson, of McBaine, died yesterday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock from injuries sustained when she was run over by an unattached combination coach of the Missouri-Kansas Kc Texas Company. Death occurred a few minutes after the accident.
According to eye witnesses of the accident;--Mrs. Richardson and her granddaughter, Mary Richardson of Columbia, were crossing the track apparently oblivious of the approaching car. Miss Richardson saw the car in time to step out of the way but did not have time to warn her
grandmother. According to witnesses the car was not traveling more than five or six miles an hour.
Dr, Frank B. Williamson of Columbia who examined the body said that both bones in the left ankle were broken. The left arm was mangled with the hand practically severed from the arm. Her ribs were broken and there were two small holes in her head.
Dr. Williamson arrived in McBaine on train No, 3 from Huntsdale shortly after the accident and was requested to make the examination by a friend who met him at the station.
_. 0. Sapp, telegrapher at the Katy station in McBaine, appeared before the coroner's jury in Columbia this afternoon and testified that the accident occurred on the second of four tracks that run by the station, It is known as the "Passing" track and is used as a switch whenever it is necessary for trains to pass each other. The coach had been dropped from the train onto this track, the crew
making what is known as a. flying switch. At the time of the accident, the conductor, R. E. , was on the back platform of the car applying the brakes, according to Sapp.
J . M. , a carpenter from McBaine was next called to testify. His testimony substantiated that of Mr. Sapp in most details. Tom Clark, Mary Richardson and a section foreman of the Katy were called to testify but could add nothing to the details of the case. Because the crew of the train had to report for work this afternoon it was impossible to get their testimony. The jury started debating ,the case at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The train crew was ready to testify at 12:30 o'clock.
Members of the train crew are: James M. Bunch, engineer, H.M. K__ conductor, H.L. Toler, brakeman, The jury which sat on the case this afternoon at the request of
coroner, E.G. Davis, are: John Corneilison, Sappington, A.,V. Ferguson, Charles Thornton, Norris Gibson, and C.E. Wilson. Mrs. Richardson, who was 66 years of age was born in Moniteau county near California, Mo, on Sept 15 1864,. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Craig. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but it is understood that burial will be at Millersburg Cemetery»

Name of Deceased: Martha Craig Richardson
Newspaper: The Columbia Daily Tribune
Date: Feb. 10, 1930
Submitters Name: Robert King

Obit: Mrs. John T. Richardson of McBaine was killed yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock near the M. K. T. station in McBaine by a coach which had been cut loose from the Columbia branch train and which was running from a flying switch on the track. Mrs. Richardson's body fell under the coach after she was struck and the coach passed over her body which was brused when the coach struck her but the body was not lacerated or cut. The accident happened while Mrs. Richardson was accompanying her granddaughter, Miss Mary Richardson of Columbia, to the station. Miss Richardson, who is about 20 years old had spent the day with her grandmother. Mrs. Richardson was accompanying her to the station. According to a member of the family who related the accident to the Tribune, Mrs. Richardson and Miss Richardson had just stepped from behind the rear coach of a main-line train which had stopped at the station when the flying coach of the Columbia branch struck the elder woman. Miss Richardson was holding to the arm of her grandmother but saw the coach in time to jump and clear the track, barely escaping with her life. The coach struck Mrs. Richardson and knocked her to her knees. She then lapsed into unconsciousness or died and when to body was found after the coach had passed over it, life was extinct. Mrs. Richardson was born in Moniteau county, near California, September 15, 1864. She was married December 16, 1883. She united with the Methodist church at Prairie Chapel at the age of 16. She moved to Callaway county near Millersburg in 1873. She was the mother of 11 children, nine of whom, with their father survive. The children are: Mrs. Baxter Nichols, W. L., Hulen, Hartly and Jesse Richardson, all of Boone county, J. A. Richardson of Bartlesville, Okla.; Mrs. H. T. Tull of Everett, Wash., Mrs. Ott Carey of Flint, Mich. Twentyone grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. She was a daughter of the late Riley Craig. Funeral arrangements will not be made until the absent children are heard from. Burial will be at Millersburg. Coroner E. G. Davis conducted an inquiry into the death of Mrs. Richardson at Parker Memorial Chapel this afternoon. The jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Richardson came to her death by being struck by a coach of the M. K. & T. railroad company in McBaine.
Feb. 11, 1930 The funeral of Mrs. J. T. Richardson will be conducted Saturday at 12 o'clock at Millersburg by Rev. H. P. Cheavens assisted by Rev. J. S. Denton. A short service will be held at McBaine Friday at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. Denton.