Obit: Busch, Mrs. Delbert (1918? - 1949)

Contact: Linda Ewen

Surnames: Busch

----Source: Spencer Record, Spencer, Wis.) 5/26/1949

Bush, Mrs. Delbert (1918? – 20 MAY 1949)


Train-Car Accident Kills Greenwood Teacher, Friday

Another Death at the Spencer Railroad Crossing! Yes, another person has lost her life at the Soo Line Railroad crossing in Spencer in a train-automobile accident which killed Mrs. Delbert Busch, 31, a Greenwood school teacher and expectant mother, and put her husband, Delbert, 33, driver of the car, in the hospital.

Mrs. Busch, Home Economics Instructor in the Greenwood High School, died almost instantly from injuries including a broken neck, and a skull fracture when she was thrown from the car about 10 feet to the concrete. Mr. Busch is in good condition suffering from a concussion and facial lacerations and bruises.

Busch, coming from the east apparently never saw or heard the train until it crashed into his car. The tracks just north of the highway are almost completely shut off from view by a long string of railroad cars on a siding under the old coal chute. These cars are there for use of the men who are at present installing the new safety signals at this same deadly crossing. We sincerely hope they get them installed before another accident happens at this spot.

The two-door Buick sedan which Mr. Busch was driving was one of the most badly wrecked cars we have ever seen, it was torn up, crushed and parts strewn for hundreds of feet along the right of way. It was a very bad accident, another blot on our safety records. Let’s hope and pray and WORK HARD to increase safety in “Our Town.”