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Obituary- Smith, Fred and Smith, Edward and Marney, Maggie 3

DEATH ENDS IT

Honeymoon of Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Smith is Over.

He With Two Others Killed at Crossing.

STOPS A MARRIAGE.

Other Two Victims to Have Been United Sunday.

Maggie Marney and Edward Smith Find Union in Death.

ONLY ONE IS ALIVE.

Mrs. Fred Smith Tells How Accident Happened.

Young People Returning From Dance at St. Marys.

Three persons were instantly killed and another perhaps fatally injured shortly after 1 o'clock this morning at Bond's crossing, about two miles west of Rossville, by the Union Pacific passenger train No. 3, west-bound. The killed are: Fred Smith, Edward D. Smith, Miss Maggie Marney. Mrs. Fred Smith may recover, although at noon today she was still unconscious and was in a delirious condition.
Mrs. Smith was a bride of less than a week, having been married on Sunday, and Miss Maggie Marney was to have been married next Sunday to Edward Smith, one of the unfortunate men.
Edward and Fred Smith were brothers, both prosperous young farmers whose parents also live near Rossville. They had been to St. Marys to attend a Woodman dance and were returning home when the accident occurred. They were driving a team of horses attached to a double-seated carriage, when they crossed the Union Pacific at Bond's crossing, and the engine of the Union Pacific passenger train crashed into them.
The bodies of the killed were terrible mangled, and Miss Marney's head was completely severed from her body. Both the horses were instantly killed, and the carriage was smashed.
The engineer did not see the carriage until after the engine had struck it. He immediately brought his train to a standstill and the bodies of the dead and Mrs. Smith, who was unconscious, were take on board and were carried to St. Marys. They were taken to Rossville early this morning accompanied by Dr. Miller and a Catholic priest, Father DeSmedt, and an inquest was held at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Fred Smith is receiving the best of medical care and attention. She talks in a rambling manner and knows nothing of what has occurred. She is not aware that her husband was killed. She suffered a severe shock and one arm and an ankle were broken. The doctors hold out hopes of her ultimate recovery.
Miss Maggie Marney was the daughter of William Marney, a well known farmer of that vicinity. She was to have been married to Edward Smith next Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Smith, the bride of two days whose husband met a horrible death at the Bond Crossing, gave the first coherent account of the accident to a State Journal reporter this afternoon.
"We were married in Topeka at the home of my sister, Mrs. H.E. VanVleck, at 220 East Filth Street," said she. "We went down to Topeka on Saturday and were married Saturday evening. We were at the home of my sister until Monday afternoon when we went to Rossville. Ed met us at the train. He had asked his father for a team and got a double seated carriage in Rossville and we went to the Mulvane ranch where we got Maggie Marney and we then went to the dance at St. Marys.

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