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| Title | Doodlebug Monument |
| Description | A photograph of the Doodlebug Memorial on Front Street in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Also known as Pennsylvania Roailroad's Motor Car 4648, the Doodlebug was a gasoline-powered shuttle train running between Akron, Ohio and Hudson, Ohio. On July 31, 1940, the Doodlebug crashed into a 73-car freight train at Hudson Drive and Front Street in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Forty-three passengers were killed when the gasoline tank exploded. |
| Date | 31 July 2005 |
| Subject | Doodlebug
Doodlebug Memorial Garden
Front St.
Cuyahoga Falls
Deaths
Trains
Railroads
Monuments and Memorials
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| Names | Murtaugh, Thomas L.
Shafer, Harry B.
Wonn, Tod E.
Clifford, Earl C.
Davis, Elmer E.
Fahrney, Betty
Fahrney, Mary Joan
Helmick, Lois
Morris, Loren C.
Palmer, Fred H.
Schreiber, Joan
Squires, Charles T.
Vaughn, Nelson
Wills, Cleon H.
Bedarf, Otto
Bailiff, A.L.
Bilderdeck, Charles
Badonsky, Mary
Burke, Albert C.
Durbin, Ernest C.
Duve, Fred H.
Ellenbrook, Adam
Ellis, Sophia
Fountain, Louis
Frank, Charles W.
Gibbons, E.W.
Gilbo, Lillian
Harpley, Wilbur D.
Johns, Albert
Kelly, Bruce
Letzkus, Lawrence C.
Kirschner, Leonard
Kirschner, Nina
Logani, Margaret
McKee, Paul
Miksa, Anastasia
Morey, Nina Jane
Orem, Robert Edgar
Perry, Lois A.
Peters, Jacob Henry
Rice, Williston
Schmitz, William
Simpson, Dolores
Smock, Harry
Tarleton, Charles E.
Way, Russell
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| Contributors | Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society
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| Type | Image
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| Format | 6 in. x 4 in. |
| Source | CF_Memorial2.jpg |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Doodlebug Collection
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| Rights | The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
| Additional Information | http://cuyahogafallshistory.com/doodlebug1.htm; |
| Transcript | "Doodlebug" July 31, 1940 On an average summer day, a passenger shuttle that ran from Hudson, Ohio to Akron, Ohio collided head on with a 73 car freight train. There were 46 passengers aboard. It was the worst crash in Cuyahoga Falls history. SURVIVORS: Thomas L. Murtaugh, Engineer; Harry B. Shafer, Conductor; Tod E. Wonn. VICTIMS OF CUYAHOGA FALLS: Earl C. Clifford, Elmer E. Davis, Betty Fahrney, Mary Joan Fahrney, Lois Helmick, Loren C. Morris, Fred H. Palmer, Joan Schreiber, Charles T. Squires Jr., Nelson Vaughn, Cleon H. Wills. VICTIMS OF OTHER CITIES: Louis Fountain, Cleveland, OH; L.C. Letzkus, Pittsburgh, PA; Adam Ellenbrook, Akron, OH; Wilbur Harpley, Akron, OH; Paul Mckee, Akron, OH; E.W. Gibbons, Endicott, NY; Lois A. Perry, Akron, OH; Albert Johns, Akron, OH; Otto Bedarf, Akron, OH; Sophia Ellis, Akron, OH; Leonard Kirschner, Akron, OH; Fred Howard Duve, Akron, OH; Jacob Henry Peters, Akron, OH; Mary Badonsky, Akron, OH; Williston M. Rice, Pittsburgh, PA; Harry B. Smock, Cambridge, OH; A.J. Bailiff, Akron, OH; Charles W. Frank, Akron, OH; Margaret Logani, Bayonne, NJ; William Schmitz, Mencken, WV; Bruce Kelly, Akron, OH; Ernest C. Durbin, New Castle, PA; Lillian Gilbo, Akron, OH; Charles E. Tarleton, Akron, OH; Albert Burke, Akron, OH; Russell Way, Akron, OH; Nina Kirschner, Akron, OH; Nina J. Morey, Akron, OH; Charles Bilderdeck, Crew; Anastasia Miksa, Pittsburgh, PA; Dolores Simpson, Charleston, WV; Robert Orem, unknown. |
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