The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-30
Charles Hansen, Of Kenosha,
Killed Saturday Afternoon
When Joyride Car Turns
Turtle.
TWO OTHERS ARE INJURED
Thomas Madsen, Of Racine, and Fred
Oer1m, 7o3 Newell st. Are Badly In
jured-Car Skids Seventy Yards Be-
fore Making Death Whirl.

Death rode with trio of ioyriders
on Saturday afternoon when Charles
Hansen, painting contractor Of Keno
sha, was instantly killed and Thomas
Madsen, au automobile man of Racine,
and Fred Oerum, 703 Newell street,
Kenosha, were seriously injured when
the car in which they were riding
turned turtle half mile west of the
Four Corners on the Geneva Road.
Hansen was pinned benetah the weight
of the car and is thought to have had
his neck broken by the blow. Both of
the. other men were knocked uncon-
scious and reminaed so for some time
after the accident.
Passing motorists came to the aid of
the trio and the Hansen and police am
balances were hurried to the scene of
the accident. Madsen and Oerum were
taken to the Kenosha Hospital while
Hansen s body was taken to the Han
sen morgue on South street.
1.-THE Ride Of Our Lives
None Of the occupants-of the car can
tell exactly how the accident happened.
Both men when they were revived and
were able to talk declared that the car
had started to skid and that Madsen,
who was at the wheel, could not keep it
in the road. Tracks at the scene of
the accident showed that the car--an
Elgin Six-had skidded more than. 70
feet and then turned almost completely
around before it tipped over on its side.
The three men had been in Racine
and Madsen, who owned the car, was
bringing the other two back to their
homes in Kenosha, "Now for the ride
of our lives, +" one of the men is said to
have remarked when they started for
Kenosha. Both men, who survived the
accident, said that they had been trav-
cling at little more than rair rate of
speed and that there would have been
no danger if the roads had not been
so slippery.
Victim is Well Known Here.
Charles M. Hansen, the victim Of the
accident, was well known painting
contractor of Kenosha, who resided at
6O1 Rowland ave. He~was 46 years old
and had lived in Kenosha for many
years. He was member of the Danish
Brotherhood and Of the Royal Areanum
an dhad been leader among the Danes
of Kenosha. He is survived by one
daughter, Miss Agnes Hansen, who
since her mother 8 death has lived with
her aunt, Mrs. Rice, 159 Newell street:
by brother, Hans Hansen, Of Sheridan
Road; and by three sisters in Denmark.
The funeral services will be held on
Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock at
the Hansen Chapel, after which inter
ment will be made in the family plot
at the Green Ridge cemetery.
Other Victims Will Recover.
Neither Madsen nor Oerum were as
seriously injured in the accident as was
at first believed. Both men were
stunned by the blow and suffered Sc
we're cuts about the face and head.
Oerum recovered consciousness shortly
after being taken to the hospital on
Saturday afternoon and late that even
ing after his injuries had been dressed
was able to be taken to his home on
Newell street. Physicians say that
Madsen will be confined to the hospital
for several days but that if no unex-
pected complications develop he will
recover