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THE MONTICELLO EXPRESS, MONTICELLO, IOWA, SEPTEMBER 4, 1902, PAGE 5
Anna Monck, a Little Girl, Killed by a Freight Train at the Langworthy Crossing

Anna Monck, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Monck, who live near Langworthy, a little girl about seven or eight years old, was killed by the cars at the Langworthy crossing, last Monday afternoon, shortly after 4 o'clock. The little girl was struck on the back of the head by the main driving rod of the engine. It crushed her skull and threw her a distance of about seventy feet. The little one was picked up and carried into the Langworthy depot, thence she was transferred to the caboose of the train, and taken as quickly as possible to Monticello, for the | purpose of immediate surgical aid, but on the way to Monticello she died. Anna was in company with two other girls, an older sister and a little Stutt girl, six years old. They were about to cross the track into Langworthy, when a tie freight known as the meat train passed north. The train does not stop at Langworthy, but goes through at a high rate of speed. There appears to have been nothing to obstruct the view for at least half a mile, and it is not understood why the little girl should have deliberately ran into the train unless she did so absent mindedly. The other two little girls who were with her stopped on the approach of the train, and clutched at Anna as she deliberately attempted to cross the track. The only wounds inflicted were those at the back of the head. The body was not mangled otherwise. The remains were | placed in the hands of an undertaker at Monticello, and were returned to Langworthy the same evening. A coroner's jury was impaneled at Monticello, and an inquest hold last Tuesday, with Justices Babcock as acting coronor. The jury in its verdict declares that Anna Monck camo to her death on September 1st, 1002, by being struck by a railway locomotive on train No. 08, of the Chicago, Milwaukee &. St. Paul Railway Co., and also that no blame attaches to the railway company or to any of its employees. The verdict is subscribed by M. F. Byrne, M. H. Teeter and W. G. Filers, who were impaneled as jurymen. From the evidence taken at the inquest, we make the following synopsis: J. W. McCartney: Am conductor on the train No. 08 which went forth September 1st, 1902. It is not usual for this train at stop at Langworthy. The train struck and killed Anna Monck at Langworthy. Did not see the accident and did not see the girl before the injury.