Two Die as Train Strikes car; Man Drowns in Creek
James W. Taylor, Confederate War Veteran, and Daughter, Killed by Train Crash in Kylesburg; Raymond Brosius Drowns While Swimming
Four persons met violent deaths in Licking County Sunday. The victims all were residnets of Newark.
James W. Taylor and his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Gorley, were killed instantly when their car was struck by a B. & O. passenger train at the Kylesburg crossing; Raymond Brosius was drowned while swimming in Racoon creek near the Dugway, and Mrs. Sarah J. DeWeese died from effects of poison.
James W. Taylor, 82, and his daughter, Mrs. Sarah E. Gorley, 51 of 247 National Drive, were killed instantly Sunday afternoon at Kylesburg, formerly Union Station, when Mrs. Gorley drove her Ford sedan on to the crossing into the path of eastbound B. & O. passenger train, No 34.
A portion of the machines was carried some distance on the pilot of the engine and both bodies were badly mangled, Mr. Taylor being almost decapitated.
Mr. Taylor and his daughter had been west of the city picking blackberries in the morning and stopped at the home of Mrs. Gorley's daughter, Mrs. John W. Hughes, near Kylesburg, for dinner.
The accident happened when they were on their way home and Mr. Taylor's watch stopped at 1:26. B. & O. No. 34 is due at the station here at 1:37 o'clock.
While it was also said that the engine in Mrs. Gorley's car died on the track, it was reported in the vicinity of the accident that Mrs. Gorley waited at the crossing for a westbound freight to pass and failed to see the passenger train approaching from the opposite direction. No repoprt of a freight train passing at that time was made at the B. & O. offices by the train crew.
The bodies were brought to Neward on the train and removed to Criss Brothers funeral home. The bodies will probably be taken to the home in National Drive Tuesday.
A double funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the First Baptist church and burial will be made in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Mr. Taylor was born in Amosville, Va., and came to Cherry Valley, Licking county in 1865. Since then he has lived in Licking and Knox counties and also in Tennessee, making the trip in a covered wagon. He came to the home of Mrs. Gorley in National Drive about a year ago from his home in the Dogleg road.
He served four years in the Confederate aremy in the Civil war.
His wife, who was Mary Hollar, died in 1919 and he is survived by one son, William A. Taylor, who lives on the Vanatta farm in the Columbus road. Mr. Taylor is the last of his generation.
He was a member of the Pine Street Christian Union church.
Mrs. Gorley was born Jan. 30, 1876, in the Cherry Valley, Licking county, and was married to Joseph H. Gorley in Covington, Ky., in 1895. Mrs. Gorley was the mother of 11 children, nine of whome survive: Joseph Lester of Newark, Mrs. JOhn W. Hughes of near Kylesburg, Walther James Gorley of Newark, Mrs. J Milton Benjamin of columbus, Mrs. Harold F. Whitehead and Mrs. Forrest F. Fremmer of Newark, Wilma Lithan, Leona Elizabeth and Gertrude Isabel of the home. She also leaves 11 grandchildren and one brother, William A. Taylor.
During the past year Mrs. Gorley had been an employe of the Midland Shoe company. She was a member of the First Baptist church.
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The Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, August 8, 1927, page 1