Campbellsport News, November 22, 1917

WM. NORENBERG AND EMMETT FLYNN LOSE LIVES WHEN SPEEDER AND TRUCK CRASH

  William Norenberg, aged 33, a resident of Eden, was instantly killed and Emmett Flynn, aged 23, also of Eden, was fatally injured and died later at a Milwaukee hospital, when the gasoline speeder on which they were riding crashed into a heavy oil truck of the Standard Oil company at the crossing near Oxford, Wis., late Saturday morning.
   Norenberg was dead when he was picked up by the driver of the truck, while Flynn was rushed to a hospital in Milwaukee, where he died at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening. Flynn's skull was fractured and he also sustained internal injuries.
   The men were riding on the speeder to go to their work and approached the crossing at a high rate of speed, according to the statements said to have been made by witnesses. The tracks of the North Western road run through a cut just west of the road and the men were unable to see the truck until they were directly on the crossing.
   John Spergen, driver of the truck, claims he did not see the approaching men until it was too late to stop his machine. The speeder struck the front wheels of the truck, and and both men on the former vehicle were huried to the roadbed. The force of the crash tore one wheel from the truck, bent the front axle and smashed different parts of the motor. The speeder was completely wrecked. The driver of the truck escaped uninjured.
   Both of the accident victims were employees of the Chicago & North Western road and had been repairing and installing the signal block system along the main line.
        BODIES BROUGHT HOME
   The body of Flynn was taken to Eden station from Milwaukee early Sunday evening, and to the family residents just south of the village, while the body of Norenberg was taken to the Zacheal chapel at Fond du Lac.
   Emmett Flynn was born in Spencer, Ia., twenty-three years ago, and came to Wisconsin when about five years of age with his parents, and had resided in the town of Eden since then.
   Besides his father, James Flynn, the deceased is survived by three brothers, John, Leo and Edward, all of Eden, and one sister, Mrs. John Haeney of Fond du Lac.
   The funeral was held Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the family residence and 11 o'clock from St. Mary's Catholic church at Eden. The Rev. Father Scheurell of Osceola officiate with interment at the St. Mary's cemetery.
   The pallbearers were John, Edward and Leo Flynn, William Leary, James and Daniel McCarthy.