16-YEAR-OLD SHADYSIDE BOY KILLED BY TRAIN

A 16 year-old Shadyside boy was killed Saturday evening, 24 Feb 1962, when he was hit by a speeding express train at the Eighth St. crossing of the New York Central.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. for Larry Lee Coan, RFD 1, at the Carl Edmonds Funeral home with the Rev. Thaddeus Peak of the Crocker Bible church officiating. Burial will be in Chesterton cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7p.m. to 9 p.m. tonight.
Chesterton police said that your Coan, Earl Wilson, 19, Shadyside, and Bob Hauber, 15, 408 S. 11th St. were walking south on Eighth St., at 6:50 p.m. on their way to the championship game of the Chesterton sectional. The boys started to run to beat the train to the crossing, police said. Young Hauber and young Wilson made it across the track in front of the mail and express train, but young Coan stumbled at the track upon which the eastbound train was traveling, police said.
The boy was hit by the train as he began to get up, witnessess told police. The automatic crossing gates were down at the time of the accident, witnessess told police.
Porter county coroner Elmer T. Johnson said that the train No. 4 was traveling 80 m.p.h. at the time of the accident
Vincint Pearson, 614 South Park dr., whose car was stopped on Eighth st. on the south side of the tracks waiting for the train to pass, told police he saw the boy running and fall. He hailed the other two boys and went to the Dunes Valley Lanes to phone for help.
Engineer of the train was Matt Bowshek, Chicago, conductor was B. L. Stump, Elkhart, and brakeman was W.M. Bushnell, Western Springs.
Investigating at the scene were Chesterton policeman Alvin Hjelm, chief; Arnold Mauke, and Clyde Phillips, and Coroner Johnson.
Larry was born July 14, 1945 in Van Buren Co., MI., the son of John and Hazel (Williams) Coan. He was a CHS freshmen and had worked part time at Parry's restaurant.
Besides his parents he is survived by four brothers; Lindy, Chester, Charles, all of Chesterton, and James of Lancaster, CA., three sisters, Mrs. Jane Ballatore, LaPorte; Mrs. Louise Keppen, and Mrs. May Lively, both of Chesterton; a grandmother, Mrs. Etta Williams of Georgetown, ILL., and a grandfather, James Coan of Chesterton.
Paullbearers will be Richard Stout, Robert Williams, Terry Olson, Robert Rabe, Danny Cincoski, and Richard Castle.