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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, October 31, 1962 Gerald Edward Semler Carnegie Man Is Killed In Truck-Train Collision Gerald Edward Semler, 32, a truck driver, was killed and his father, Ted Ray Semler, seriously injured in a truck-train collision Saturday near Carmen, Okla. The accident happened when an eastbound Frisco freight train struck the Semler truck and trailer loaded with rock at the Frisco railroad crossing three miles southeast of Carmen on SH 8. Young Semler was employed by Pat Dysert, Canute contractor, and was enroute with the rock from the Roosevelt quarry to the Salt Plains dam where rock is being used for rip rap. The Semler family had moved from Hobart to Carnegie about April 1 of this year. He had been employed by the L.E. Walker Construction company here before working for Dysert. The elder Semler, who made his home with the son and family, was first treated at the Masonic hospital in Cherokee and later transferred to the McBride hospital in Oklahoma City. The crash occurred at 11:05 Saturday morning, piling up into wreckage with the train engine and two cars off the tracks and the rails and right-of-way torn up where the engine traveled for 71 feet after the impact. The freight engine struck the truck just behind the cab, and carried the vehicle 57 feet, according to a report from Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Ray Dotson of Cherokee, and Trooper Johnny Jones of Alva, who investigated the accident. John R. Darnell, Enid, fireman of the train, reported that he saw the truck and immediately applied all brakes in an effort to stop. None of the train crew was injured. All warning lights and the bell signaling the approach of the freight train were working, according to investigating officials. Pitcher's Funeral Home ambulance went to Carmen Sunday morning bringing the victim's body here for funeral services at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the First Christian church with Rev. W.E. Harris, pastor, officiating. Interment was in the local cemetery. Semler is survived by his wife and two children, Gregory, nine-years-old, and Toni, six, all of the home on south Prosperity; and his father, also of the home. |
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