Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-10-24

Saturday evening, a little after
6 o'clock, Roy Kammerer riding upon
a motorcycle, conided with the T. f.
Mullen automobile at the intersection
Of Baker and Ninth street. The i'm
pact was SO sudden and severe while
the auto and motorcycle were under
good speed that Roy Kammerer was
thrown off from his motorcycle again
st the cement curb, fracturing his
skull, from which he died an hour
| after the accident
bir and Mrs T. E. Mullen. Miss
Katherine Kammerer, Miss Gertrud
Reiland, and Ray Mullen, had been
to Stevens Point that afternoon in
their car to witness the football game
between the Stevens Point and
Grand Rapids teams, and had lust
shortly before the accident deliver
| ed Miss Kate Kammerer at her
home on the corner of Twelfth and
Franklin streets. The automobile
left the Kammerer home going south
on Twelfth street, to Baker street,
and were travelling west on Baker
street when the accident happened,
in front Of NJ. Mosher's home at the
intersection of Ninth street on
Baker
| Roy Kammerer who acts as chauf-
feur for T. E. Nash on the West
side was riding home as was his
custom at O'clock but on this oc-
casion he had invited Howard Null
len the youngest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. E. Mullen, to supper with
him, and he was riding in front of
| him upon the motorcycle They We're
| travelling East on Baker street on
the right side of the street, and
when they reached Ninth street they
saw Frank Kline, just ahead of
them driving a team hitched to a
wagon and hay rack. On account of
the fact that he was turning his team
to the right side of the road Roy
Kammer6r decided to pass him on
the lost >siae, net Knowing any
thing about the Mullen car coming
west on the same street, until he
(Kammerer) had passed the rear end
of the wagon, and gotten upon the
same side of the road that the auto
was on. This knowledge was too
late for him to avoid the accident
which followed. Roy Kammerer real
izing his predicament turned his
motorcycle as near the north curbing
as possible and the auto was turn
ed as far south as possible, but on
| account of the cIoseness of the wa
gon, could turn no further. The au-
to's right front wheel and headlight
struck the motorcycle just in front
of the hind wheel bearing Roy 'Kam-
merer to the ground with the motor
| cycle, his head striking the curb while
Howard Mullen, was thrown across
| the sidewalk on the M Mosher lawn
unhurt. Roy Kammerer's body was
| picked up and taken home and ply
| sicians summoned. He never regain
ed consciousness and died an
| hour after the collision. John Cypress
saw the accident, and was the first
man on the ground to render assis-
tance. He went into the Julian WeIch
home and telephoned for physicians.
| The impact was so strong that all
the neighbors heard the crash and
| were soon at the scene of the ac-
cident.
This accidental death is a very
sad one for all those who are con
t nected Herewith, and greatly to be
deplored No blame can be attach
/ ed to anyone in the Mullen car as
they were on the right side of the
road and did everything possible to
avoid the accident, and Roy Hammer
er was on the wrong side, yet he
! turned to the left to avoid running
into the team of horses who were
| crOWding to the right side of the
road travelling in the same direction
Just how Roy failed to see the auto
coming, in time to swing north on
Ninth street is not known and will
never be known.
The automobile suffered no damage
except a broken light on the right
side where the motorcycle struck it.
The motorcycle was badly broken
and demolished especially in the cen
ter part, and in front of the rear
| wheel
Roy Kammerer was taken in the
automobile to his home and three
physicians made an examination and
found that his head was fractured
which was the cause Of death.
OBITUARY,
Frank Leroy Kammerer, was born
IN the city Of Grand Rapids on May
81, 1892 He was therefore thirty
years, four months and nineteen days
old when he died. He was educated
in the public schools of Grand Rap