Five Lose Lives in Car Crashes Over Weekend
Camden Girl Killed With Mother as Train Hits Fiancé's Machine
MERCHANTVILLE WOMAN DIES IN DOUBLE WRECK
3 Who Insist on Leaving Hospitals Forced to Return, One Fatally Hurt
A Camden mother and daughter were killed in a grade crossing crash at Lansdale, Pa., and three others lost their lives in South Jersey in weekend motor accidents. In three cases injured persons refusing to remain in hospitals were forced to return later. One of them died.
Miss Eleanor M. Hillman, 20, of 810 Howard Street, and her mother, Mrs. Mary Hillman, 46, were killed at Lansdale, when an automobile was struck by an electric train on the Philadelphia and Western Railroad.
Mrs. Jean Bethell, 21, of 103 Chapel Avenue, Merchantville, was killed in a crash of automobiles at Crescent Boulevard and Drexel Avenue, Pennsauken, late Saturday.
Killed in Suitor's Car
Miss Hillman and her mother were in the automobile of Miss Hillman's fiancé, Fred G. Brummer Jr., of 629 Clinton street, Camden. The three drove to spend the day with Mrs. Milton Wenhold, of 218 West Eighth Street, Lansdale. Upon arrival Mrs. Wenhold and her two children, Milton, Jr., 4, and Mildred, 6, were invited to take a ride.
They reached the Seventh Street crossing, at 3:15 p. m. Brummer did not see the train until it was too late. He tried to swerve the machine but the train caught the automobile and dragged it for 50 feet, crushing it.
The occupants were thrown along the side of the roadbed. Miss Hillman was dead when she was picked up by horrified spectators. Her mother died a few hours later in the Montgomery Hospital from a fractured skull.
Mrs. Wenhold and Brummer are in the same hospital and may die. The children suffered minor injuries.
PLAN DOUBLE FUNERAL FOR MOTHER, DAUGHTER
A double funeral will be held tomorrow for a Camden mother and her daughter, killed Sunday when a train struck an automobile in which they were riding at Lansdale, Pa.
They were Mrs. Mary A. Hillman, 46, of 810 Howard Street, and her daughter, Miss Eleanor M. Hillman. The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. at 736 Market Street. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery.
Mrs. Hillman was the widow of Lester C. Hillman.
Fred G. Brummer, Jr., 24, of 629 Clinton Street, fiancé of Miss Hillman and driver of the car, was in a critical condition in Montgomery Hospital, Norristown. Mrs. Milton Wenhold, of Lansdale, who was also in the wreck, was also in a serious condition. Both have possible fractured skulls.
Miss Eleanor M. Hillman and Mrs. Mary Hillman, mother and daughter, of 810 Howard Street, who were killed Sunday when an automobile in which they were passengers was struck by a train at Lansdale, Pa.
Camden Courier-Post, June 4 & 6, 1932