The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-31
TWO DEAD TN
AUTO MISnAP
EpIdemlc ei Accidents IN and Around
Tho City Of Fargo During The
Past Ten Days.

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Fargo, N. D., Aug. 28. Two
killed and six hurt, with the
lives of five others endangered,
is the automobile accident toll
Saturday night and Sunday in
this district. with the death of
two and injury of third per-
son, while Ave leaped from the
car to safety, just as Northern
Pacific passenger train No 8
crashed into the machine on a
grade crossing four miles from
Perham, Mimi, the most tragic
of the series.
Two victims, Mrs. Louis De-
Zeler, Fargo, and Otto Chris
tianson. Moorhead, were nearly
drowned after Mrs. DeZelar's 8
car overturned into a ditch near
Hawley, Mimi, SUNDAY after
noon; two men were terribly
battered when their machine
hurtled over a high embank-
ment at a bridge three miles
north of Moorhead, Saturday.
evening, while Fred Parks,
employed by the Stacy Co.,
suffered a fractured skull when
he fell from an automobile on
lower Front street, this city,
yesterday afternoon.
In the Perham grade cross
ing accident, Louis Dombeck,
40, and his son Romeo, Z, met
death instantly and their bod
les were horribly cut up, when
No. 9, the westbound Northern
Pacific train. hit the machine
Michael Belka. another occu-
pant of the car, suffered a brok-
en- 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 warning cry was
made by a member of the party
who discovered the approach
ling train as their car was brot
to a stop directly in the path
of the train.
Mrs. Louis DeZelar, whose
husband is employed in the
Reed studio, was saved from
death by drowning, pinioned
under her overturned automo-
bile three miles east of Haw
LEY. late yesterday afternoon,
while other autoists arriving on
the scene within a few min
utes, turned the car sufficient
ly to release her.
/ Mrs. DeZelar was uncon-
scious when rescued and first
aid" methods were resorted to.
At 10 O. clock last evening she
lregained consciousness at the
Jens Larson falmstead, near
the scene of the accident, and
she may be brought home late
today. No bones are broken
and it is not believed she sus.
tanned any internal injuries.
Mrs. DeZelar had gone to
Detroit, Mimi. yesterday NOR.
ming to drive her car home, II
having been left there a week
ago. Mr.. Christianson was
making the trip home with hel
because Mr.. DeZelar was un.
able to make the drive.
The car, on a sandy road,
left the grade and Mrs. DeZela1
made strenuous efforts to turn
lit back onto the grade. As Z
result the left front whee
|skidded along sideways for z
/ or 25 feet before the trenend
GUS weight thrown on it crack
ed the axle, and the car turnee
lover.
Fred Parks, %, is in St
Johns hospital with a fra8tur
ed skull as a result of beinf
thrown to the payment on low
/ er front street yesterday after
noon when he stepped of back
Il wards from a moving automo
/ bile. The outcome Of his casl
/ is uncertain.
"A Velie roadster, carrying 5
5lJ. Blake, travelling salesman
land a male companion. turnes
turtle and dropped 10 feet int.
i the ditch just south Of the ney
\ concrete bridge on the grave
I, road, two miles north Of Moor
head. Both men jumped q
tl1e car left the road and wer