Notes for Ruth E. BREYFOGLE

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Notes for Ruth E. BREYFOGLE

Snow Storm Causes Crossing Tragedy

Hammond, Ind., Mar. 10 - (AP) - Two school teachers and a student were killed today as a Chicago-bound Erie railroad train hit an automobile here in a blinding snow storm.

The dead were William Roddea, 32, and Miss Ruth Breyfogle, 51, both of Crown Point, and William Llewellyn, 16, of Highland.

Roddea was a teacher in a grade school and Miss Breyfogle a teacher at Hammond high.

The Llewellyn boy, son of S. B. Llewellyn, superintendent of the Inland Steel Company's Indiana Harbor plant, was a student at Hammond high.

The teachers, driving to their schools, had picked up the Llewellyn boy enroute.

Police said Thomas Mates, a crossing watchman, said he attempted to flag down the automobile, but that Miss Breyfogle, who was driving, apparently failed to see him because of the swirling snow.

Officers said gates that were usually lowered to protect the crossing were out of order.

SOURCE: Dixon Telegraph, Dixon, IL March 10, 1948

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