The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-10
Father Vahey, of Cleveland, and a Prominent Importer Crushed to Death When
 Gar Turns Turtle.
THREE OTHERS UNlNJURED
Dodglng Deep Hole in Center of Road. Machine Goes Over Elm banltment Hidden by
 Bushes.

Toledo, ohio. Aug. 9.-When an au- tomobile plunged over a steep embank- ment on the Witchaw road, two and half miles west of Sylvania, this after noon, Charles W. Pohlmann, wealthy Cleveland importer ana merchant tall or. and Father George Vahey, pastor of Columbkill's parish, Cleveland, were killed. Mrs. Charles w. Pohlmann, her daughter, Florence. and F. c. Dietzel ing car but were saved from injury by the hign back of the tonneau.
 The automobile landed at the bottom of the embankment bottomside up The priests head was crushed between the edge of the car and huge stone. Mir. chine, was entangled in the steering gear, the wheel crushing his chest. Death came to Father Vahey instantly and MT. Pohlmann lived less than a minute. Pohlmann's neck was prob ably broken and his chest crushed
 
 the tonneau, assisted the women out and then examined the bodies of the two men in the front of the car. Real izing the men were dead the dentist seated the women on the bank and ran half mile to the home of stephen Hey, where he found four or five men who returned to the wreck with him. In the meantime Miss Pohlmann had fainted and she was carried 10 the Hey farmhouse and doctors summoned from Sylvania Mrs Pohlmann refused to leave the scene until the dead body of wreck. | The party left Cleveland at 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon and, spent the night in Fremont They arrived In Toledo at 10 today and stopped at the home of l J. ]. Malone, 2527 Glenwood avenue. | The sceneof the accident was at the Eley bridge across the Ten Mile creek 1 and two and half miles west ol ! Sylvania. About twenty feet west oi l the bridge Is a deep hole in the middle Of the road, stretching nearly across 1t | The hole was full of water and, jus, after crossing the bridge MT. Pohlmanr l guided his machine over to the Jeff side of the road to avoid a hole. The | sides of the embankment at that poin, are thckly lined with srubbery ant small trees and the party did not real. ize that they concealed q steep bank.
 The front wheel of the machine wen over the edge of the embankment jus as the rear wheel struck the edge o the hole In the road The Jumping O. the rear wheels in the noc tossed tho machine over the embankment.
 Cleveland, O., Aug. 9--Rev. Georg, 1 V. Vahcy, who with Charles W. Pohi mann was killed in the automobile ac cident near Sylvania, to-day, was on, of the best known priests in the state He was ordained in 1887 and was for weight years old. He came to Cleve land from South Boston, Mass and be came assistant pastor at St. Johns ca ] thedral, where he was prominently as sociated with the late Bishop Horst mann.
 Ten years ago he took charge of St Columbkills parish, one of the larges and most important parishes in tn city
 MT. Pohlmann was a tailor, forty-fv years old. A ten-day automobile tri through Canada had been planned b. MT. Pohlmann. His party left here Sat urday. They inteded to go to Detroit through Canada to Toronto and returl by way of Niagara Falls and Buffalo.