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- Niagara Gazette - 9/20/1929
Corinne Betty. Adams, daughter of Mr: and Mrs. Herbert Adams of Ransomville.
who was fatally injured recently by a freight train near-Leggett's crossing
on the Rome. Watertown and Ogdensburg branch of the New York Central
at Ransomvllle. The child was a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sedlak,
2404 Niagara avenue, this city. The child's- mother was formerly Marie Sedlak
ALSO
Niagara Gazette - 9/10/1929
Betty. 22 months old. only child of
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Adams of Ransomville,
was fatally injured at 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon when struck
by a freight train near Leggett's crossing
on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh,
N. Y. C. branch. The child
suffered a fracured skull from which
she died at the .Memorial .hospital, this
city, this morning. *
No one saw the accident, so far as
is known, and it is believed that the
train crew did not know of it at the
time. Mr. Adams was working In a
field across the tracks from his home
and it is thought that the child started
across the tracks in an effort to get;
to her father.
The injuries indicated that the
child's head came in contact with, the
fender of the engine. Mr. Adams took
her to the office of Dr. C. R. Clark, in
Ransomville. who ordered her removed
to a hospital at once. No hope was
held out for her recovery. Betty Is
survived only by her parents.
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Abt 1927 - 1929 (1 year)