TRIPLE RAIL TRAGEDY        ----- Charles Colegrove, Wife and Daugher of Laurens, the Victims.        ----- VEHICLE HIT BY D. & H. TRAIN        ----- Accident at Dlenn Bridge Crossing, at South End of D. & H. Yards, Late Saturday Afternoon--Duneral Tuesday Afternoon at Laurens. Shocking indeed was the tripple ca- tastrophe occurring Saturday evening, at about 5 o'clock, at the grade crossing of the D. & H. tracks at the Glenn bridge, at the extreme south end of the Oneodta railroad yards of that company, when Charles E. Colegrove, a well-known farmer of Laurends, his wife Mary Sullivan, and their daughter, Mable, aged 24, were instantly killed, the cutter in which they were riding, and their bodies being carried across the railroad bridge over the Otego creek and deposited on the opposite side of the creek.  All three of the victims sustained fractured skulls and it is believed were killed outright, when the engine struck the cutter squarely.  One of the horses was killed outright, and so far as The Star could learn last evening the other a young animal, nad not been located.  It was seen to run away from the scene. Mr and Mrs. Colegrove, who resided near Gilbert's lake, above Laurens, had with the daughter named been at the home of their son, Frank L. Cole- grove, at Otego, spending the day, and were returning home.  They occyped a top-cutter, and naturally when they reached the bridge named they turned up the back road to West Oneonta, the nearest route to their home.  At this point a knoll hides the view of trains approaching from the south, the approach to the crossing from the macadam being at quite a grade.  t is believed they were on the track before the train was sighted, it being said that the engineer observed an effort on the part of the driver to whip up the horses and hurry over the crossing, when the whistle was sounded the second time.  The train was extra 762 northbound, known as the pick-up and drop train and was in change of Engineer Frank Turner and Conductor Don Firman, both of this city.  It struck the rig with terrific force. The top of the cutter was up and the three occumants were probably well bundled for a long drive behind horses.  The cutter and occumants were carried over the bridge, the three bodies being found at intervals alongside the track, some 150 ot 200 feet from the crossing. Life was extinct when the train crew and others nearby reached the bodies and it is believed that they were killed by the first impact.  The bodies were removed to the small office building nearby.  By direction of Coroner Getman, who was called, they were turned over to Undertaker McCrum and removed to his parlors where they were prepared for burial. They were not as badly mutilated as one might imagine.  According to coroner Getman who examined them at the undertaking parlors the chief injuries were fractured skulls. The son Frank L. Colegrove, of Otego, was in the city later in the, evening, and yesterday a daughter, Mrs. Clayton Harrington of Oaksville and a brother Washington J. Colegrove of Laurens, were here and arranged for the funeral of the three to be held from the Prespyterian church at Laurens on Tuesday at 2 o'clock. The bodies will be placed in the vault there and later interred in the cemetery at Mt. Vision.   Historical Sketches. Charles Edwards Colegrove was born in the town of Carlisle, Schoharie county, October 8, 1861, the son of Austin and Eliza Jane (White) Colegrove.  In 1865 the family removed to Masonville, where he resided until 1873 when they removed to Milford.  About 30 years ago he married Mart Sullivan, daughter of David Sullivan of Mt. Vision, where they removed to Laurens and have since resided in that town, he following farming.  Two children survive them, the son Frank of Otego, and the daughter, Mrs. Har- rington of Oaksville, mentioned above. Mr. Colegrove leaves also three brothers, William Henry Colegrove of Schenevus, John C. Colegrove of Unadilia, formerly a resident of Onconta and later of Otego and Washington J. Colegrove of Laurens; also four sisters, Miss. Lydia M Colegrove, Phoenix Mills, Mrs. Ella D Turp of Laurens, Mrs. Carrie Record of Mohawk, and Mrs Minnie Packer of South Salem, Westchester County. Mrs. Colegrove is believed to have two or three brothers surviving, but non of the Sullivan family have yet communicated with the others.   Oneonta Daily Star  |  Oneonta  |  New York   01-21-1918   Source:  http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=13518143&firstvisit=true&src=search&currentResult=2