Daughter of Charles "Carl" A. Anderson [in Norway his name was Carelius/Karelius Andreassen] and Antonette "Nettie" Evensen
Death date on Hilda's gravestone is wrong. Hilda was killed in a tragic accident. The newspaper article, from "The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, dated Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89, is also on Hilda's genealogy page
"The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89 [9]
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT
A Two - Year Old Child Cut To Pieces by the D. & R. G. W.
On Wednesday, the 8th of the present month, a shocking and fatal accident occurred at West Jordan, ten miles south of this city, by which a two - year old girl was cut in two and almost instantly killed by a D. & R. G. W. Railway train. Carl Andriason and his family have a small home at West Jordan about 50 rods west of the D. & R. G. W. station at Bingham Junction. On the afternoon of the day named, Mrs. Andriason's little daughter, Hilda Maria, was out in the yard with her mother, and started for the house, as was supposed. Instead of going inside, she went out on the street and towards the schoolhouse on the opposite side. The street is a narrow one, and in the centre is the D. & R. G. W. track to Bingham, the grade toward the river being quite heavy.
The unfortunate child had not been away from her mother more than two or three minutes, when a train of three loaded ore cars and a locomotive came down the grade, backing, at about nine miles per hour. As it approached the schoolhouse two boys on the front car saw the child on the track a short distance ahead, and apparently too frightened to get from between the rails. They signaled the engineer, who applied the brakes, but almost at the same instant the first car caught the little one and threw her on the rails. The entire train passed over her body, at the hips, mangling it horribly.
The accident was observed by a number of school-children, school being in session at the time, and they came trooping out and beheld a terrible scene. Mrs. Andriason came to look for her babe as soon as she discovered that it was not in the house, and got on to the street just as the train passed over it. She rushed frantically forward and grasped the child, carrying the bleeding form into the house. Then she discovered that she had picked up only the trunk of the body. One leg and the entrails were left on the track, from which other parties gathered them into a pan and conveyed them to the house.
The father had left some time before for his work at a smelter. A messenger was dispatched after him, to convey the sad tidings, and it was a couple of hours before he got back to his home. In the meantime, an inquest had been held and the testimony of a number of eyewitnesses taken. The coroner's verdict is as follows:
Territory of Utah, Salt Lake County, West Jordan Precinct.
An inquisition holden [sic] at West Jordan, in West Jordan Precinct, Salt Lake County, on the 8th day of February, 1888, before Isaac Harrison, justice of said precinct, upon the body of Hilda Andriason, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed.
The said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said Hilda Andriason was killed by cars owned by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway, and that it was purely accidental, no blame being attached to the railway employes [sic].
In testimony whereof the said jurors have herto set their hands the day and year aforesaid. Allan Hall, Joseph Mills, W. M. Bateman, Jurors.
The funeral took place on Friday, February 11th. The family are plunged into grief over the terrible affair, and Mrs. Andriason is especially seriously affected. Every time a train passes the strain on her seems so great as to be beyond her powers of endurance, and the bad effects do not appear to get less as time elapses. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire settlement where they live."
Death date on Hilda's gravestone is wrong. Hilda was killed in a tragic accident. The newspaper article, from "The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, dated Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89, is also on Hilda's genealogy page
"The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89 [9]
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT
A Two - Year Old Child Cut To Pieces by the D. & R. G. W.
On Wednesday, the 8th of the present month, a shocking and fatal accident occurred at West Jordan, ten miles south of this city, by which a two - year old girl was cut in two and almost instantly killed by a D. & R. G. W. Railway train. Carl Andriason and his family have a small home at West Jordan about 50 rods west of the D. & R. G. W. station at Bingham Junction. On the afternoon of the day named, Mrs. Andriason's little daughter, Hilda Maria, was out in the yard with her mother, and started for the house, as was supposed. Instead of going inside, she went out on the street and towards the schoolhouse on the opposite side. The street is a narrow one, and in the centre is the D. & R. G. W. track to Bingham, the grade toward the river being quite heavy.
The unfortunate child had not been away from her mother more than two or three minutes, when a train of three loaded ore cars and a locomotive came down the grade, backing, at about nine miles per hour. As it approached the schoolhouse two boys on the front car saw the child on the track a short distance ahead, and apparently too frightened to get from between the rails. They signaled the engineer, who applied the brakes, but almost at the same instant the first car caught the little one and threw her on the rails. The entire train passed over her body, at the hips, mangling it horribly.
The accident was observed by a number of school-children, school being in session at the time, and they came trooping out and beheld a terrible scene. Mrs. Andriason came to look for her babe as soon as she discovered that it was not in the house, and got on to the street just as the train passed over it. She rushed frantically forward and grasped the child, carrying the bleeding form into the house. Then she discovered that she had picked up only the trunk of the body. One leg and the entrails were left on the track, from which other parties gathered them into a pan and conveyed them to the house.
The father had left some time before for his work at a smelter. A messenger was dispatched after him, to convey the sad tidings, and it was a couple of hours before he got back to his home. In the meantime, an inquest had been held and the testimony of a number of eyewitnesses taken. The coroner's verdict is as follows:
Territory of Utah, Salt Lake County, West Jordan Precinct.
An inquisition holden [sic] at West Jordan, in West Jordan Precinct, Salt Lake County, on the 8th day of February, 1888, before Isaac Harrison, justice of said precinct, upon the body of Hilda Andriason, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed.
The said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said Hilda Andriason was killed by cars owned by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway, and that it was purely accidental, no blame being attached to the railway employes [sic].
In testimony whereof the said jurors have herto set their hands the day and year aforesaid. Allan Hall, Joseph Mills, W. M. Bateman, Jurors.
The funeral took place on Friday, February 11th. The family are plunged into grief over the terrible affair, and Mrs. Andriason is especially seriously affected. Every time a train passes the strain on her seems so great as to be beyond her powers of endurance, and the bad effects do not appear to get less as time elapses. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire settlement where they live."
Daughter of Charles "Carl" A. Anderson [in Norway his name was Carelius/Karelius Andreassen] and Antonette "Nettie" Evensen
Death date on Hilda's gravestone is wrong. Hilda was killed in a tragic accident. The newspaper article, from "The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, dated Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89, is also on Hilda's genealogy page
"The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89 [9]
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT
A Two - Year Old Child Cut To Pieces by the D. & R. G. W.
On Wednesday, the 8th of the present month, a shocking and fatal accident occurred at West Jordan, ten miles south of this city, by which a two - year old girl was cut in two and almost instantly killed by a D. & R. G. W. Railway train. Carl Andriason and his family have a small home at West Jordan about 50 rods west of the D. & R. G. W. station at Bingham Junction. On the afternoon of the day named, Mrs. Andriason's little daughter, Hilda Maria, was out in the yard with her mother, and started for the house, as was supposed. Instead of going inside, she went out on the street and towards the schoolhouse on the opposite side. The street is a narrow one, and in the centre is the D. & R. G. W. track to Bingham, the grade toward the river being quite heavy.
The unfortunate child had not been away from her mother more than two or three minutes, when a train of three loaded ore cars and a locomotive came down the grade, backing, at about nine miles per hour. As it approached the schoolhouse two boys on the front car saw the child on the track a short distance ahead, and apparently too frightened to get from between the rails. They signaled the engineer, who applied the brakes, but almost at the same instant the first car caught the little one and threw her on the rails. The entire train passed over her body, at the hips, mangling it horribly.
The accident was observed by a number of school-children, school being in session at the time, and they came trooping out and beheld a terrible scene. Mrs. Andriason came to look for her babe as soon as she discovered that it was not in the house, and got on to the street just as the train passed over it. She rushed frantically forward and grasped the child, carrying the bleeding form into the house. Then she discovered that she had picked up only the trunk of the body. One leg and the entrails were left on the track, from which other parties gathered them into a pan and conveyed them to the house.
The father had left some time before for his work at a smelter. A messenger was dispatched after him, to convey the sad tidings, and it was a couple of hours before he got back to his home. In the meantime, an inquest had been held and the testimony of a number of eyewitnesses taken. The coroner's verdict is as follows:
Territory of Utah, Salt Lake County, West Jordan Precinct.
An inquisition holden [sic] at West Jordan, in West Jordan Precinct, Salt Lake County, on the 8th day of February, 1888, before Isaac Harrison, justice of said precinct, upon the body of Hilda Andriason, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed.
The said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said Hilda Andriason was killed by cars owned by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway, and that it was purely accidental, no blame being attached to the railway employes [sic].
In testimony whereof the said jurors have herto set their hands the day and year aforesaid. Allan Hall, Joseph Mills, W. M. Bateman, Jurors.
The funeral took place on Friday, February 11th. The family are plunged into grief over the terrible affair, and Mrs. Andriason is especially seriously affected. Every time a train passes the strain on her seems so great as to be beyond her powers of endurance, and the bad effects do not appear to get less as time elapses. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire settlement where they live."
Death date on Hilda's gravestone is wrong. Hilda was killed in a tragic accident. The newspaper article, from "The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, dated Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89, is also on Hilda's genealogy page
"The Deseret News" Salt Lake City, Utah weekly newspaper, Wednesday 22 February 1888, page 89 [9]
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT
A Two - Year Old Child Cut To Pieces by the D. & R. G. W.
On Wednesday, the 8th of the present month, a shocking and fatal accident occurred at West Jordan, ten miles south of this city, by which a two - year old girl was cut in two and almost instantly killed by a D. & R. G. W. Railway train. Carl Andriason and his family have a small home at West Jordan about 50 rods west of the D. & R. G. W. station at Bingham Junction. On the afternoon of the day named, Mrs. Andriason's little daughter, Hilda Maria, was out in the yard with her mother, and started for the house, as was supposed. Instead of going inside, she went out on the street and towards the schoolhouse on the opposite side. The street is a narrow one, and in the centre is the D. & R. G. W. track to Bingham, the grade toward the river being quite heavy.
The unfortunate child had not been away from her mother more than two or three minutes, when a train of three loaded ore cars and a locomotive came down the grade, backing, at about nine miles per hour. As it approached the schoolhouse two boys on the front car saw the child on the track a short distance ahead, and apparently too frightened to get from between the rails. They signaled the engineer, who applied the brakes, but almost at the same instant the first car caught the little one and threw her on the rails. The entire train passed over her body, at the hips, mangling it horribly.
The accident was observed by a number of school-children, school being in session at the time, and they came trooping out and beheld a terrible scene. Mrs. Andriason came to look for her babe as soon as she discovered that it was not in the house, and got on to the street just as the train passed over it. She rushed frantically forward and grasped the child, carrying the bleeding form into the house. Then she discovered that she had picked up only the trunk of the body. One leg and the entrails were left on the track, from which other parties gathered them into a pan and conveyed them to the house.
The father had left some time before for his work at a smelter. A messenger was dispatched after him, to convey the sad tidings, and it was a couple of hours before he got back to his home. In the meantime, an inquest had been held and the testimony of a number of eyewitnesses taken. The coroner's verdict is as follows:
Territory of Utah, Salt Lake County, West Jordan Precinct.
An inquisition holden [sic] at West Jordan, in West Jordan Precinct, Salt Lake County, on the 8th day of February, 1888, before Isaac Harrison, justice of said precinct, upon the body of Hilda Andriason, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed.
The said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said Hilda Andriason was killed by cars owned by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway, and that it was purely accidental, no blame being attached to the railway employes [sic].
In testimony whereof the said jurors have herto set their hands the day and year aforesaid. Allan Hall, Joseph Mills, W. M. Bateman, Jurors.
The funeral took place on Friday, February 11th. The family are plunged into grief over the terrible affair, and Mrs. Andriason is especially seriously affected. Every time a train passes the strain on her seems so great as to be beyond her powers of endurance, and the bad effects do not appear to get less as time elapses. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire settlement where they live."
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