The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 14

Road Worker Killed at Farmer City Henry Harsha Victim--Truck, Train Collide FARMER CITY A 50-car freight train of the New York Central Railroad struck a highway maintenance truck on the John Street crossing in Farmer City Thursday afternoon, killing the truck driver. Henry Ray Harsha, 59, Farmer City, an employe of West Township, was dead when his truck came to a stop. It was pushed 1,460 feet by the freight train. R. C.

Brown of Urbana, the conductor, and E. H. Hord of Champaign, the engineer, told De Witt County Coroner Clyde Helm they saw the truck drive onto the tracks in front of their train, but they were unable to stop. Traveling 50 The Peoria-bound train was traveling about 50 miles per hour, the train crewmen said, and they estimated Harsha was driving 10 miles per hour. Although Harsha had lived i in Farmer City since last winter, he was employed by West Township, in McLean County, as a driver and highway maintenance man.

The truck cab was crushed around Harsha. The truck, recently purchased, was a total loss. The speedometer showed 6,332 miles. Time of the accident was estimated at 12:18 p.m. Hearing In Progress The John Street crossing is one of two involved in a controversy before the Illinois Commerce Commission.

The New York Central had flasher signals installed at John this summer, and asked the ICC for permission to close the Plum Street crossing. A hearing on the Plum Street closing was being held Thursday in Springfield. The Peoria and Eastern branch of the New York Central has six crossings in Farmer City, three protected with flasher lights and three without. Attending the hearing in Springfield Thursday were H. R.

Hester, mayor; John Collier, city clerk; 0. A. Peithman, city attorney; Roy Ratcliffe, alderman and commissioner of streets; Harlow Stensel, funeral director; Cecil Chaney, superintendent of schools; Dane Far- Railroad signal standard ging truck interrupted Henry Ray Harsha low and Ralph Daugherty, representing Farmer City Grain Ray Lamkin of Clinton, attorney for Farmer City Grain Herman Savage, acting postmaster, and Lott Howe, president of Farmer City State Bank. The latter two attended as interested citizens. Detrimental To Schools Superintendent Chaney said he did not want the Plum Street crossing closed because it would throw too much traffic on broken off by the drag- and switching for two railroads.

married Pantagraph Photos 1928, John Street, where the high school and elementary school daughters, are located. 1409 Mr. Stensel said he wanted Mrs. Plum Street kept open on ac- fax; wanda; count of the ambulance service. Ronald, Representatives of the Farm- ers, er City Grain located at the Plum Street crossing, wanted it ter, Fern kept open for grain trucks, which otherwise would have to be routed three blocks farther.

The Peoria Eastern Railroad was also represented. Inquest Monday The dragging truck struck and broke off a signal standard. Automatic switching for the New York Central and Illinois Central crossing in Farmer City was disrupted, and trains were to be flagged through manually until new equipment can be installed. Mr. Helm swore in a coroner's jury Thursday and scheduled an inquest for 7:30 p.m.

Monday at the Stensel Funeral Home. The funeral for Mr. Harsha will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Stensel Funeral Home, the Rev. Ed Armstrong officiating.

Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery, Bloomington. Visitation begins Saturday afternoon. There will be Masonic rites at 2 p.m. Sunday. He was born Oct.

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Paranoia is a mental disorder marked by delusions of persecution and one's own greatness. Tailgate Crash Injures Driver LINCOLN (PNS) Jimmie Lee Couts, 20, of South Bend, suffered severe cuts on the head and left hand when his compact convertible crashed into the rear of a truck, loaded with a bulldozer, at 12:20 p.m. Thursday on U.S. 66 just north of Kickapoo Creek bridge. The compact caromed off the truck and rolled more than 100 feet into the median.

Armin Lanou, 49, of Manteno, driver of the truck, told State Troopers Morris Akers, R. A. Evans and George Garvey he did not see the car until after the impact. Couts was admitted to Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital for emergency care. Farmer City--Struck squarely in the center by a locomotive, this West Town- ship highway department Thursday.

Arrowsmith, a son of James Olive Reese Harsha. He Mabel Stiger June 23, at Saybrook. Surviving are his wife; four Mrs. Imajean Schad W. Grove, Bloomington; Doris Wyant, rural ColMrs.

Marjorie Baize, ToDiane, at home; a Foosland; three brothClifford, Park Rapids, Lyle, Berne, ChesBryant, a sister, Mrs. Longmire, The Dalles, truck carried Henry R. Harsha, 59, to his death Ore. Three brothers preceded him in death. He was a member of the Arrowsmith Christian Church, the Colfax Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges, and the Blooming- ton Consistory.

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