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Victor and Hazel had two daughters - Hazel Marie Steen (1913-1973) and Lucille Genevieve Steen (1920-2004).
Victor Steen was killed in a train accident while working on a railroad track. The following represents four separate newspaper articles on the accident in June 1922 from The Deming Headlight (Deming, New Mexico); The Petaluma Daily Morning Courier (Petaluma, California); The Petaluma Argus-Courier (Petaluma, California) and The Copper Era and Morenci Leader (Clifton, Arizona):
John Thomas, who was badly injured last Thursday when he was struck by an engine near Steins Pass, was brought to the Ladies’ Hospital for treatment and is now reported to be progressing favorably. Mr. Thomas was section foreman and his gang was working on the track when the train came along, but it is believed that the high wind drowned the noise of the train’s approach until it was too late for the crew to jump clear of the track. One of the gang, an American named V. V. Steen, was killed and two other laborers were injured.
Thursday afternoon Dr. M. M. Crocker, S. P. surgeon, received a wire from Steins which stated that one man had been killed and several others wounded by a freight engine going west about two miles the other side of Steins. The news was confirmed in a short time when a special car brought the wounded men to the S. P. hospital, where they were given proper medical attention and sent to the hospital at Tucson in the evening. The body of V. V. Steen, one of the section men, was brought in on No. 10 and an inquest developed the fact that a freight special was running west from Steins when it ran into a section crew.
Victor Steen, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Steen, who for many years resided on the Wilkie ranch on the Bodega road, met a tragic death at Steins, New Mexico, the first of the week, while working for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., when two trains crashed together. His death was instantaneous. The body was shipped to Long Beach where the family is at present residing. The deceased was aged 32 years. His widow, who was formerly a Sebastopol resident, survives him with their two children.
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