# 1 - - Published in The Tribune, October 20, 1915

AUTO STRUCK BY FREIGHT

TWO LIVES LOST AND OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED

Yesterday morning at about ten o'clock as John Rogert, wife, three year old daughter and his sister-in-law were on their way to Omaha and when about two miles out from Arlington while crossing the railroad at what is known as the Cook crossing, they were struck by a freight train which resulted in the instantaneous death of Mrs. Rogert and the little daughter and the other two occupants of the car were seriously injured.

The injured were taken to Arlington where they received medical attention.

Mr. and Mrs. Rogert are people of large acquaintance in this county, Mr. Rogert being a brother of the Rogert Bros. in the Fletcher store and of Mrs. Chas. Anderson living in the same neighborhood while Mrs. Rogert, formerly Miss Schraeder, has relatives both in Herman and Calhoun.

The funeral services will be held in the Methodist church in Arlington this afternoon and tomorrow in Ft. Calhoun, interment being made in the German cemetery in Richland township.

A series of accidents, covering a term of years, have occurred at the crossing where the accident happened, which is without question the most dangerous crossing in the county. This makes three lives lost in the last three or four years, Henry Ahlmeyer being the other victim.

For a time this summer, the company placed a watchman at this point and the people of the community were very desirous of having one kept there permanently but from present indications it seems that this was not done. However it certainly is time that something be done before more lives are endangered.

# 2 - - Published in the Enterprise October 22, 1915

TWO PERSONS INSTANTLY KILLED NEAR ARLINGTON WHEN FREIGHT TRAIN STRIKES AUTOMOBILE

A fearful accident occurred at a highway crossing of the C. & N. W. Railroad track, on the Arlington cut-off, about a mile and a half southeast of Arlington, last Tuesday at 10 o’clock a.m., in which Mrs. John E. Rogert and her little four year old daughter, Anita, were instantly killed.

Mr. Rogert escaped injury by being thrown clear of his car and the railroad track against the bank. Mrs. Rogerts’ aunt, Dora Nindell, was bruised about the shoulder and body but received no injuries of a serious nature.

An Omaha paper stated that the Rogert car ran into the locomotive, hitting the steam chest. We were informed by Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Rogert's sister, that this is untrue; that the front of the locomotive hit the front of the auto, throwing Mr. Rogert out, and this threw the rear of the auto around so that it was struck and crushed to kindling and the two persons occupying the rear seat instantly killed.

The Rogerts live on a farm two miles south of Telbasta and had as their guest Mrs. Rogert's aunt from Omaha. When this lady decided to return home Mr. and Mrs. Rogert proposed to take her in their car and their little daughter, two years older, remaining at home with the district school teacher on account of indisposition. The party stopped at Arlington for a short time and met some friends and then proceeded on their journey with the result about stated a few minutes afterwards.

This crossing is where Henry Alhmeyer, a farmer in that neighborhood, lost his life not long ago and is as dangerous as a crossing can be; both the railroad and highway running through deep cuts at this point. After Alhmeyer was killed and there were many other accidents narrowly averted, the railroad company kept a crossing watchman there for sometime, but it appears that he has not been on duty recently. It seems that a viaduct for highway travel should be erected there.

The Rogerts are quite prominent in the county: Two of Rogert's brothers keep the Fletcher store, west of Herman, and farm there and two other brothers are farmers in the vicinity; a sister, wife of C. K. Anderson, lives a mile and a half north of the Fletcher store. Their mother is still living and makes her home with her children. Mrs. J. E. Rogert, the woman who lost her life was before marriage, Miss Dora Schroeder, who formerly lived with her widowed mother at Herman and prior to her father’s death near Fort Calhoun, where a number of her relatives still reside.

Funeral service, for mother and daughter, was held at the M. E. church at Arlington on Wednesday at 2 o’clock p.m. and at Fort Calhoun at 2 p.m. on Thursday and the remains buried in the cemetery at the German hall, west of Calhoun, where the remains of Mrs. Rogert's father were laid to rest several years ago.

# 3 - - from The Pilot, November 3, 1915

Another fatal accident occurred at what is known as the Cook crossing, about a mile and a half east of Arlington, yesterday at 10:30 when Mrs. J.E. Rogert and little daughter, Aneeta, four years old, were instantly killed by impact from an engine on a freight train. Mr. Rogert escaped uninjured and Mrs. Dors Nindell, Mrs. Rogert's aunt, whom they were taking to Omaha, was only slightly bruised. This is the same crossing at which Mr. Jungbluth was killed a year or so ago. there was an electric signal apparatus, but it had been out of condition for several days, Arlington parties say. Mr. Rogert never saw the train and had no warning of its approach since the gong wasn't working. The car struck the stem chest on the engine and was almost completely demolished. The train crew took the dead and injured back to Arlington where they were cared for by Dr. Davies. There will be a short funeral service held at the Lutheran church in Arlington at 2 o'clock today and the body of the mother and child will be taken to Ft. Calhoun tomorrow for burial. Mrs. Rogert's father, Adolph Schroeder, is buried in the Ft. Calhoun cemetery and her mother lives with her brother, Adolph, on a farm near that place. Another sister, Mrs. Frank Miller, lives near Herman.

(note from typist: there are some inconsistencies in facts and spellings in these three articles. Typed and entered as printed in the newspaper.)