Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-08-31
AUTO FATALITIES
NEAR FARGO
Two Killed and Six Injured
Sunday.

six hurt, with the lives of five 9TH
ers endangered, is the automobile
accident toll Saturday night and
Sunday, in this district, with the
death of two and injury of third
person, while five leaped from their
car to safety, just as Northern Pa
cific passenger train No. 8 crashed
into the machine on grade crossing
four miles from Perham, Mimi, the
most tragic of the series.
Father and Son Die.
In the Perham grade crossing ac-
cident. Louis Dombeck, 40 and his
son, Romeo, Z, met death instantly,
and their bodies were horribly cut
up, when No. 9, the west bound
Northern Pacific local train, hit the
machine
Michael Belka, another occupant
of the car, suffered broken arm in
leaping from the machine, while
| five others in the car were unhurt.
Three girls, daughters of Mr.. Dom
| beck, witnessed his death.
Dombeck was holding his son and
was unable to leap when the warn
ing cry was made by member of
the party, who discovered the ap-
preaching train as their car was
brought to a stop directly in the
path of the train.
Car Turned Turtle; Narrowly Escape
| Drowning.
Mrs. Louis DeZelar, whose hus-
band is employed in the Reed studio
North Broadway, was saved from
death by drowning, pinioned under
her overturned automobile three
miles east of Hawley, late yesterday
afternoon, while other autoists ar
irving on the scene within few
minutes, turned the car over suffi.
ciently to release her.
Mrs. DeZelar, formerly Miss Flor
ence Hall, daughter of Mrs. A. E
Hall, 413 Fourteenth street south
was unconscious when rescued ant
first aid" measures were resortet
to. At 10 o'clock last evening sh'
regained consciousness at the Jen
Larson farmstead, near the scene O.
the accident, and she may be bro
home late today. No bones were
broken and it is not believed she sus
tanned any internal injuries.
Mr.. Christianson was also pinned
under the car when it overturned
but he was able to dig his way out
and, by holding Mrs. DeZelar's head
out of the water, saved her life.
Mrs. DeZelar had gone to Detroit
Mimi, yesterday morning to drive
her car home, it having been left
there a week ago. Mr.. Christianson
was making the trip home with hel
because Mr.. DeZelar was unable tc
make the drive
The car, on sandy road, left the
grade and Mrs. DeZelar made siren
uous efforts to turn it back onto the
grade. AS a result, the left front
wheel skidded along sideways for 20
or 25 feet before the tremendous
weight thrown on it cracked the
axle, and it turned over.
Skull Fractured.
Fred Parks, aged %, employed by
the Stacy Fruit Co., is in st. Johns
hospital with fractured skull, as a
result of being thrown to the pave
ment on Lower Front Street yester,
day afternoon when he stepped on
backwards from a moving automo-
bile.
Parks is today getting along fairly
we'll, though the outcome of the case
is uncertain.
Dropped II Feet.
A Velie roadster, carrying 5. }.
Blake, a travelling salesman regis
tered at the Comstock hotel, and a
male companion, turned turtle and
dropped Is feet into the ditch just
south of the new concrete bridge on
the gravel road, two miles north OF
Moorhead, Saturday night.
The car was badly smashed up and
was brought to local garage today
for repairs. Both men jumped as
the car left the road and were not
BADLY injured.