Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1915-09-02
Young Attorney
Meets Sudden Death
George c. Hanson With Party on Hunting Trip
Runs Car Into Deep Cut Bank
Death Instantaneous

Ono of the most appalling fatalities
.so. over cast its pail of gloom over
,ho entire city occurred yesterday
,,orring when Attorney George C.
Hanson, who was accompanying
uassrs. Ed. Healy, Desmond O'Neil
,rd Thomas Kane on hunting expe-
a,tion assidentally ran Attorney
ONers car, which he was driving at
tho time, over a cut-bank and was in
stantly killed by being crushed be-
meath the heavy car.
Attorney O'NeiI Discovers Body
The terrible accident occurred some
time between the hours of 6 o'clock
and 7:15 a. NJ, at the former hour the
four hunters separated and scattered
out among the hills in quest of game,
and at 7:15 a. m., or thereabouts, Mr..
Hanson's body was discovered by At
torney O'Neil in the 10-foot cut-bank
alongside the old Deer creek road,
nearly seven miles from town, pinion-
ed between the side arm of the car
and small hill of earth in the middle
Of the cut-bank. Life had evidently
been extinct for some time as the
hands, which were spread out on the
ground, were then cold.
Body Not MutiIated
Other than a minor confusion on the
right arm, which had bled slightly,
there was no visible evidence of the
terrible impact, although at the un-
dertaking parlors Of the Enterprise
Furniture & Undertaking company,
where the body was later prepared for
burial, Embalmer Giltner discovered
that the entire chest had been COM
pletely crushed and that splinters of
the dead mans ribs had penetrated
ooth heart and lungs. When found,
due to the peculiar formation of the
small hill of earth In the center of
me cut-bank, the body was almost in
an upright position, and it is claimed
Oy many who later viewed the scene
Oh the accident that had Mr.. Hanson
Oeen unable to get partly out of the
machlne as he did, he would probably
nave been saved as the slanting posi-
"on OF the car indicated that there was
sullicient room between the seats and
ule ground to have amply protected
n's body. However, it is instructive
.O' drlVer to attempt to leave a car
I" crlses OF this nature in which it
Aeary always happens that a fatality
occurs
How Body Was Discovered
Nol having seen Mr.. Hanson since
Oclock Ed. Healy having noticed
Dlln last about that time starting the
.N' winch stood near the top of the
., S."'e' nili' Desmond O'Neil started out
Ouesl OF him and walked back about
. A''e oefore finding the upturned car
''''ns the body of the young attor-
wy shouting to his companions, who
~. r"e % lnen too far away to hear him,
., ~, Nell started out in the direction
VII. oAeehers ranch to find someone
" "oula help extricate the body.
oou D'ier John Kelly of Circle, &C.
a... 4panled by three men who were
,bo . nerd of cattle to town, were
,ss, ~ n'st ones he met on the road. On
,bo us lung with them to the scene of
D u.u ,,uent the party encountered G.
vbo ,O''ecker and Veterinarian Burt
ks, were on their way to the Hollec.
ID "a .ahch and who had already pass
conso,. spot where the body lay, all un-
s,ous us OF its presence in the treach-
cesds. sully' The nine men then sue
and ~ !" prylng the side of the car
Derni. a'e door away from the body to
was A.. VI lts being removed which
town Ae W. and the remains brought to
v" IN Mr.. Hollecker's car.
~. var Not Badly Damaged