Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-13
YOUTHS DEATH
IN SLED CRASH
ACCIDENT
No One Responsible for Wynn Mil
Ier's Fate, According to YER
diet of COrOner's Jury.
AUTO IN CORRECT POSITION
Was Standing MOtiOnIess On Prop.
er Side of Street, Evidence at
Inquest Reveals.

Accidental death is the substance
Of the verdict returned by a coro-
ner's jury at an inquest held at the
Knox undertaking parlors at 8
O'Clock last evening over the re-
mains OF 10-year-old Wynn Miller.
son of Mr.. and Mrs Charles Miller,
$40 Sixteenth street. The lad died
at 2:45 Saturday afternoon from in
juries sustained while coasting on
the Eighteenth avenue hill, near
Fourteenth street
Evidence revealed that Wynn Mil
Ter came to his death from injuries
= the skull and brain received
while coasting on a sled on Eigh-
teenth avenue and collidiing with
an automobile standing at the curb
in front Of the Elliott grocery store,
1413 Eighteenth avenue. The ma
chine was the property of the Day-
export Ice Cream company, being
used by NJ. Google, a salesman for
that concern, who was in the gro
Gerry at the time of the collision.
Testimony at the investigation dis
closed the fact that the car was
drawn UP, motionless, on the right
side of the road in a correct posi-
ton when the sled upon which
were riding the dead boy, and How
ard McGuirk, nine-year-oId son of
Mr.. and Mrs. William A McGuirk,
1925 Sixth avenue, and Cornelius
Drew, smashed into il.
Howard McGuirk is lying at the
point OF death at St. Anthony's hos
pital with a fractured skull and con-
cussion of the brain. His condition
is critical and but little hope is en-
tertained for his recovery by DR.
Joseph DeSilva, the attending ply
stefan.
- The Drew lad was sitting on the
rear end of the sled at the time of
the crash and received but minor
bruises and cuts. AS he tells the
story, the Miller boy, steering the
sled, was underneath with the Nc
Guirk lad atop of him. Due to the
heavy load the sled became unman-
ageable when near the automobile
Customers in the store heard the
crash and the cries of the injured
boys and ran to their aid 1t was
found necessary to lift the machine
before the two lads could be re-
leased, so tightly were they and the
sled wedged beneath the car.
The police ambulance was called
and the youths rushed to the hos
pital where DR.. De Silva attended
them. The physician upon examin-
alton found that there was but
small chance for either to recover.
Wynn Miller died shortly after
ward.
Wynn Miller was born in August,
1908, at Gable, Ill. Early in life his
parents removed to this city, where
he was entered in the public
schools. Surviving besides the par
ents are two brothers.
Funeral services will be held at
the home at 1:45 tomorrow after
noon and at o'clock at the United
Presbyterian church. Rev. ]. c.
. Granger. pastor of the First Bap-
fist church, will officiate Inter
ment will be in the Chippiannock
- First Coasting Accident.
> Death of the Miller lad and the
injury to the McGuirk boy marks
the first coasting accident recorded
in Rock Island this winter. Al
though the snow of the last few
weeks has afforded excellent Cd
portunity for this popular winter
sport, but few, in comparison to
former years, have sought the hills
with sleds and large hobs. This is
probably due TO accidents and the
fact that city officials frown IN dis
favor upon cOaSting upon any. of the
city'S hills.