VAN-BUSKIRK, Carrie Allen
- Born: 10 Dec 1887
- Died: 31 Jan 1918, at age 30
 General Notes:
Birth: Sugar Ridge
Buried next to William and Martha Van Buskirk in Oak Grove Cemetery
An article in the Daily Sentinel, Bowling Green, Ohio
February 22, 1918
The severed remains of Carrie Allen Van Buskirk, thirty, were found thi s morning along the C,H. &D. tracks near the Plain church crossing, one and half miles northwest of Bowling Green, shortly before eight 0'clock by Forrest Gustin. Mr Gustin was coming to town in his machine when he n oticed a coat lying along the tracks at the intersection of the crossing . He investigated and a short distance away fround one leg and later sev eral other parts of the body. The upper part of the body was intact but the clothes had all been torn off. The remains lay scattered all along the track. Identification was made by the registration classification c ard in the pocket of the coat.
Mr Gustin called attention of farmers along the road to the gruesome si ght and D.W. Youngsambulance was called for. The ambulance brought the r emains to the undertaking parlors in this city. The supposition is that Mr. Van Buskirk caught the northbound freight at North Baltimore and cra wled into a boxcar filled with steel tubing. The train went through here Thursday night shortly after 9:30 and it is thought that in endeavoring to jump from the car the steel tubing threw him out against a snowbank and back under the train wheels. The wnowbank is only a half foot away from the tracks at this point. the tracks in the snow show that he was d ragged for about two hundred feet before being drawn under. Agent J. J. Metz this morning found Van Buskirk's pocketbook along the tracks with 6 2 cents and a lucky stone in it. The remains lay along the tracks all ni ght until discovered by Mr Gustin this morning.
Carrie A. Van Buskirk was the son of William and Martha Van Buskirk and was born December 10, 1887 at Sugar Ridge. He followed the occupation o f laborer and janitor and of late had resided at the Mrs. Ellen Bewley h ome at 151 S. Prospect St. His parents, Mr and Mrs Wm Van Buskirk, four sisters, Mrs W. E. Turritin, Mrs. Srthur Coller, Mrs. Luella Shearer and Mrs. Peter Potter, all of Bowling Green, and one brother William, of Cl eveland, survive.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: Laborer- janitor.
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