Cooperstown NY Otsego Farmer & Republican 1917 - 1918 COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., JANUARY 25, 1918. TRIPLE TRAGEDY AT ONEONTA Three Killed by Train on Oneonta Crossing.-Residents of Laurens. . -Had Been to Otego A; triple catastrophe occurred Satur. day evening, at about 5 o'clock, at the grade crossing of the .Delaware and Hudson tracks at-the-Glenn, bridge,-at the extreme south end of "the-Oneonta. railroad yards of that 'company;-when Charles ' E. " Colegrove, a well,known farmer of Laurens, his wife, Mary Sullivan,- and their daughter.. Mabel, aged twenty-four years, were, instantly killed, the cutter in- which they were riding and their bodies having .been "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 i t . is- believed .were ..killed outright, when the' engine struck "the 'cutter squarely. One. of the horses was killed outright. Mr and Mrs Colegrove who resided near Gilbert's Lake North of Laurens, had been with the daughter named at the. home of their son. Frank. L. Colegrove, at Otego,.'spending the.day, and were , returning home.- They occupied 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-knolt hides, the viewy.of trains, approaching from the south, the. approach to the crossing from: the ma-' cadam .being at <]uitc a grade. It 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-, w-as sounded '..the second time. . . '. Life was extinct when the. train crew alid others nearby reached the bodies arid" it is. believed that they-were killed by .the first impact. . ' . : . ' The ' son,- . Frank L. '. Colegrove. .of Otego, was in. Oneonta- later in the .evening, and Sunday a daughter, -M.rs. Clayton Harrington .of OaksVille," and a' brother,: Washington I. Colegrove of Laurens, were there and arranged for the -funeral of the . three to be held from ' the. Presbyterian church" at . Laurens ou Tuesday at. 2 o'clock: The bodies' Were placed' in the vault 'iiere and later interred in the. cemeter.- at Mt. Vision. '..' " . . ,. . , Charles Edwards Colegrove was born "in the town, of Carlisle,- Sclw.-a.lc county, October -8, 1861; the son of Austin and Eliza Jane (White) Colegrove. In 1865 the family removed- to- Masohville/where he resided until. 1873 when they removed to Milford. About thirty years ago he ' married Mary Sullivan, daughter of David Sullivan of Mt. Vision, when they removed" to Laurens and had.since resided in that town. Two children survive them, the son, Frank, of Otego; and the daughter, Mrs. Harrington, of. Oaksyille,. mentioned above. . . .'. . -M^r. Colegrove . leaves ' also three brothers, William. Henry' Colegrove of Sehenevus, John C. Colegrove of Unadilla,-' formerly a resident of. Oneonta and later.of Otego, and Washington I. 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.