The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-06
Ira Kohr Killed When
Chocola te Kings
Auto Turns Com
pletely Over on Hill
E. M. HERSHEY
rs HURLED OUT
Lawyer Suffers From Bruises and Shock
Driver, Who Dies in Ten Minutes.
Is Conscious Most of Time and Says
He Is IAN Right

Especial to the star Independently
Hummelstown, Pa, Feb. 6.-Ira
Kohr, SO years old, private chauffeur
TO Milton S. Hershey. the Hershey
Chocolate King, was almost instantly
killed, and E. NJ. Hershey, of Hershey
and Harrisburg, lawyer praetieing at
the Dsuphin county bar, barely escaped
with his life at l clock this morning,
when big touring car in which they
were riding skiddei ON the ice-covered
Beaver Hill of the Hummelstown pike,
upset and landed upside down in the
road.
Kohr was pinned beneath the heavy
car. The back of the seat which he
had been occupying rested on mis- head.
He died in ten minutes, during six of
which he wss conscious and directed,
in so far as he could, the work of
those who tried to extrieate him. He
spoke very little, however. Once ne
said.
NVNr gu>N lAt " ut lk1ic IlNfcr
if you can, and l will be all right
kohr expired before the ear was
lifted OF of him. DR.. ". NJ Shull,
who had been hurriedly summoned. but
who arrived too late &c administer med
ieal aid, sad the chauffeur died from
compression of the brain.
The lawyer was thrown free of the
car when the big machine was over
turned. He wss bruised and suffered
from shock.
The accident occurred at point on
the Hummelstown pike about midway
between the Beaver school house and
the intersection of the pike with the
Chambers Hill road. about mile and
d half from Hummelstown.
On Way to Get Stalled Auto
In different auto the attorney with
his wife and son, Edwin, had gone from
Hershey 10 Oberlin on a business trip
early last evening and his chauffeur,
Harry Boyer, was driving this ear.
When returning home at II clock the
machine slipped on the ice on the
Beaver hill and efforts TO ascend the
incsne were in vain. Eventually the
lawyer and his family walked into Hum
mels;own and there boarded a trolley
car and went 70 their home in Hershey.
Boyer, the chauffeur, remained with
the stalled car, and Hershey planned TO
get one Of tile chocolate kings ma
chimes, more powerful auto, TO tow
his car home. kohr volunteered 10
make the trip with the lawyer in this
second car, and it was while they were
descending the Beaver mill that the ia
tai accident occurred.
''Kohr was driving the ear about ten
or twelve miles an hour Hershey said,
''and when 1 called 10 his attention the
proximity of my car, which was at the
foot of the hill. ne applied the brakes.
The big ear sweVved 70 the SIDE of the
road, skidded, struck a breaker and
toppled over. More than that l do not
know. can ! say how got out OF the
car, although 1 was lying in the road
Just alongside the machine after it had
made the final turn
Dies Before Car Is Lifted
Boyer, the lawyers chauffeur, was
standing beside the stalled car, and al
though he and Hershey made des-
perate effort to free Kohr, they found
- Sm-.nssshsa :, 4. - ua-.r VI
ner and other farmers living nearby
were hurriedly summoned, but by the
time they got the car OF Kohr the
chauffeur was dead
Coroner Jacob Eekinger arrived at
the scene less than two hours later. but
after hearing the story of the accident
as told by the witnesses, Hershey and
Boyer, ne decided formal inquest was
not necessary. However the Coroner
will take additional testimony at a
hearing to be held in Harrisburg on
Monday morning at IL O'Clock.
At noon to-day neither of the Her
shey cars had been removed from the
;@aee of the accident The body of the
chauffeur was removed to the under
taking establishment of William Kar-
many, in Hummelstown, at o'cock
this morning.
The lawyer, who suffered greatly
from the shock and also was slightly
bruised, did not get to his Hershey home
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