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ROLLED TO DEATH BY ENGINE PILOT
Henry F. Corwin, [this is the way it appeared in the paper] Newburg Attorney, Victim of Grade Crossing Accidents.
No Gates Nor Watchman Gave Warning of Approaching Train.
Unwarned of the approach of a speeding passenger train by watchman, gates or signal lights, Henry T. Cowin, a prominent Newburg attorney of No. 1698 Harvard street, drove across the Rice avenue grade crossing of the Erie railroad last evening at dusk, to his death.
The passenger train, an excursion from Youngstown to Cleveland, was coming up a grade to the crossing at the rate of forty miles and hour. The engine struck the buggy in which Cowin was driving squarely in the middle and it stuck fast to the pilot of the locomotive, Cowin was thrown out in front of the engine and the wrecked buggy, on the pilot, and his body was rolled and turned along the tracks.
Finally the mangled form was tossed into the ditch by the side of the road, a distance of 500 feet from the crossing.
Glazier's dead wagon was summoned and the body was taken to Glazier's undertaking rooms.
The horse which Cowin was driving was uninjured. The harness was torn from its back, and frightened, it dashed away. An hour later it was caught in a cornfield munching grain.
Cown had been studying hard for the past week, preparing for the case of Heeley et al. vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., a land appropriation case. The suit was to have come to trail this morning in common pleas court. He decided to go for a drive yestersday afternoon for recreation.
His wife and children, who usually went with him on drives of the sort, remained at home, because one of the children was indisposed. The indisposition of the child probably saved the entire family from being killed or injured.
Henry Cowin was born in East Cleveland fifty-five years ago, but had lived in Newburg almost all of his life. After attending Oberlin college he studied law in the office of Judge Day, of Elyria. He was admitted to the bar about thirty-one years ago. He immediately began practice in a little office in Newburg. Farmers and his neighbors were his clients. His business grew year by year, until he had a large practice.
He married Miss Fannie Buell of Warrensville twenty years ago. She and three children, Stewart, thirteen years old; Helen, eleven years old, and Marion, six years old, survive him.
Cowin never mixed in politics; never joined and lodges or societies. His entire life seemed to be devoted to his work and family.
He was know by almost everyone in Newburg and his death caused expressions of sorrow in almost every home.
Rice avenue is one of the most traveled country roads running out of Cleveland. Yet the Erie has neither watchman, gates nor signal lights near the crossing. Citizens regard it as a dangerous place. Several accidents have occurred there.
24 Jul 1905, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, pg 1.
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Name: Cowin, Henry T.
Date: July 26, 1905
Source: Cemetery record, Reel #17
Notes: Cowin-Henry T., suddenly, Sunday, July 23. Funeral Wednesday, July 26 from Miles Park M. E. church, at 2 p. m. Friends invited. 7/26/1905. age 80. Harvard Grove Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.
ROLLED TO DEATH BY ENGINE PILOT
Henry F. Corwin, [this is the way it appeared in the paper] Newburg Attorney, Victim of Grade Crossing Accidents.
No Gates Nor Watchman Gave Warning of Approaching Train.
Unwarned of the approach of a speeding passenger train by watchman, gates or signal lights, Henry T. Cowin, a prominent Newburg attorney of No. 1698 Harvard street, drove across the Rice avenue grade crossing of the Erie railroad last evening at dusk, to his death.
The passenger train, an excursion from Youngstown to Cleveland, was coming up a grade to the crossing at the rate of forty miles and hour. The engine struck the buggy in which Cowin was driving squarely in the middle and it stuck fast to the pilot of the locomotive, Cowin was thrown out in front of the engine and the wrecked buggy, on the pilot, and his body was rolled and turned along the tracks.
Finally the mangled form was tossed into the ditch by the side of the road, a distance of 500 feet from the crossing.
Glazier's dead wagon was summoned and the body was taken to Glazier's undertaking rooms.
The horse which Cowin was driving was uninjured. The harness was torn from its back, and frightened, it dashed away. An hour later it was caught in a cornfield munching grain.
Cown had been studying hard for the past week, preparing for the case of Heeley et al. vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., a land appropriation case. The suit was to have come to trail this morning in common pleas court. He decided to go for a drive yestersday afternoon for recreation.
His wife and children, who usually went with him on drives of the sort, remained at home, because one of the children was indisposed. The indisposition of the child probably saved the entire family from being killed or injured.
Henry Cowin was born in East Cleveland fifty-five years ago, but had lived in Newburg almost all of his life. After attending Oberlin college he studied law in the office of Judge Day, of Elyria. He was admitted to the bar about thirty-one years ago. He immediately began practice in a little office in Newburg. Farmers and his neighbors were his clients. His business grew year by year, until he had a large practice.
He married Miss Fannie Buell of Warrensville twenty years ago. She and three children, Stewart, thirteen years old; Helen, eleven years old, and Marion, six years old, survive him.
Cowin never mixed in politics; never joined and lodges or societies. His entire life seemed to be devoted to his work and family.
He was know by almost everyone in Newburg and his death caused expressions of sorrow in almost every home.
Rice avenue is one of the most traveled country roads running out of Cleveland. Yet the Erie has neither watchman, gates nor signal lights near the crossing. Citizens regard it as a dangerous place. Several accidents have occurred there.
24 Jul 1905, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, pg 1.
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Name: Cowin, Henry T.
Date: July 26, 1905
Source: Cemetery record, Reel #17
Notes: Cowin-Henry T., suddenly, Sunday, July 23. Funeral Wednesday, July 26 from Miles Park M. E. church, at 2 p. m. Friends invited. 7/26/1905. age 80. Harvard Grove Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.
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1849 - 1905 (56 years)