Obit: Onsager, Norris (1949? - 1966)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Onsager, Smith

----Source: The Star News (Medford, WI) 1/07/2016

Onsager, Norris (1949? - 2 JAN 1966)

Funeral services will be held this afternoon, Thursday at Stetsonville, for Norris Onsager, 17, who was killed instantly Sunday morning when a car he was driving was struck by a Soo-Line freight train at the Stetsonville crossing.

The car-train crash occurred at 8:45 o’clock when visibility was poor due to a snowstorm. Intending to go home for breakfast, Norris had driven from the Stetsonville Skelly Oil station where the Medford high school senior worked part time, and had gone about 150 feet west on county truck A when struck by the train heading north.

The train engine struck the 1959 Chevrolet broadside and carried it about 115 feet, according to county traffic officer Tom Smith.

It took about 15 minutes to extricate the body, the youth killed instantly as a result of a skull fracture and extreme lacerations.

** Note: Date of birth was not published with accident report/obituary.