Charles Wagenlander
Submitted by Carol Sanman 3 August 2020
Kentucky Post, Monday, 29 September 1913, page 2
STRUCK BY TRAIN
Charles Wagenlander, 39, of Sixth-av., Dayton, Ky., was probably fatally injured yesterday afternoon when he was struck by a train at the Carrel-st. crossing in Cincinnati. Wagenlander and several other men had attended a picnic at Sweetwine, O., and were returning home. He stepped from a traction car into the direct path of a Pennsylvania train and sustained a fracture of the skull and leg and a crushed foot. Wagenlander was removed to the Cincinnati Hospital, where his condition is considered very serious.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 2 October 1913, page 3
LAY DEATH
Witnesses at the Coroner’s inquest yesterday in the case of Charles Wagenlander, of Dayton, KY., who was killed at the Carrol-st. crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad last Sunday, testified that the accident was due to failure of the company to comply with an order issued by the State Public Service Commission requiring it to place a watchman at the crossing. This is the second accident of this kind within a month.
Residents in the vicinity have been trying to have a watchman placed at this crossing for some time, according to the testimony given by Charles Munsey, foreman of the Boldt Glass Works. Councilman LeBlond recently introduced an ordinance ordering a watchman placed at the crossing, but it was referred to the State Public Service Commission, which at that time decided that a watchman was unnecessary.
The matter was practically dropped until Elmer Scherer, an 18-months-old child was killed at the crossing on Sept. 5, Coroner Foertmeyer, in his verdict, held the crossing a very dangerous one, and reported it to the authorities. The State Public Service Commission then ordered a watchman placed at the crossing. Munsey, in his testimony yesterday, declared that no watchman was on duty when Wagenlander was fatally injured Sunday.
Coroner Foertmeyer will render his verdict later.