Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-03
Speeding Machine CoIlides
With Another Car, Killing
Phil Kellogg, South Side
Commission Man.
DRIVER OF DEATH CAR
IS NOW IN HOSPITAL
Six Members Of Johnson FAM
lily Injured in Crash-Aged !
Parents Of Albert Johnson in
Hospital and May Die.

Phil Kellogg, prominent live stock
commission man, was killed and
eight others were injured, two seri-
ously, in collision of two automo-
biles at Thirteenth street and Deer
Park boulevard at $50 Sxaday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Johnson, 5000
WEBSTER street, both aged. the most
seriously injured. we're taken to St.
Joseph hospital in the police patrol.
Mr.. Johnson is expected to die.
Two unidentified young men. both
said to have been injured, who we're
riding with Kellogg in large tour
ing car, escaped Immediately after
the accident. They were seen to
run south on Thirteenth street and
dart between two houses. Ones
face was covered with blood and the
other man limped slightly, witnesses
say.
John McKenna, 46Oo South Twen-
ty1fourth street, said by the police
to be one of the. two men who es--
capped injury from the car in which
Kellogg was riding, was found at
8 o'clock last night at Forty-fourth
and S streets, IN the home of
friend
McKenna was taken to St. Joseph
hospital. DR.. Johnson, who took
| care of him, said nothing could be
said just yet about his condition as
internal injuries will probably de-
velop.
A police officer was stationed at
his bedside all night
As yet he has not disclosed the
identity of the man who is said
to have escaped from the wreck
with him. Nothing is known. the
police say, of McKenna's where
abouts following the accident until
he was found at 8 o'clock.
The police believe the car was
Kellogg's and that either McKenna
or the third man was driving.
/ Others Were Injured.
| The others injured were: Mr.. and
| Mrs. Albert Johnson, 3483 Larimore
avenue, and their two children,
Charles and Leslie, S and 9 years
old. respectively. They were taken
to their homes in an automobile by
E. w. Geedoth, 246l South Sixteenth
street.
The Johnson family was driving
west on Deer Park boulevard. Their
car was struck broadside by tour
ing car speeding south on Thir-
teenth street, witnesses say. The
car was driven by one Of the un-
identified men who later escaped.
Kellogg was riding in the rear seat
of the speeding car. The touring
car hurled Johnson's car completely
around, causing both cars to crash
into a telephone pole on the south
west corner of the intersection.
| Kellogg's body was found pinned
beneath the wreckage. He died 5
minutes later. His skull was crushed
and his body badly mangled.
| Car>Was> Speeding.
Albert Johnson was driving the
car at the time of the accident and
attempted to swerve to the left, wit
nesses say, when he apparently saw
the accident was imminent. His
aged father and mother, were in the
rear seat with the two children.
"As | neared the intersection, i
caught sight of touring car speed
ing upon me-" Johnson said. II at
tempted to turn out of the way. The
next thing | knew we were hi"
| Policemen Ryan and Liekert were
at the patrol box atEFhirteentfi and
Vinton streets when Kellogg's car
sped south.
/ "The car was going about so miles
an hour, should Judge" Ryan said.
"A few seconds later l heard i
crash" ss
Albert Johnson suffered severe
bruises about the body. His wife
was cut about the face and arms.
| Their two children, received .cuts
about the hands and legs.
I The county >attorney ordered the
body of Kellogg removed to the
Johnston & Duffy undertaking par-
lors, Sixteenth and Leavenworth
streets.
/ Another Youth Hurt.
| In another automobile accident at
lTwenty-fourth and Mason streets
late Sunday afternoon, Kenneth Ru-
bottom. 7-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. I. Rubottom, 842 ls2 North
Iwenty-fourth street, received 4
broken nose and severe cuts about
the face when he wasfstruck. by an
automobile driven by II. c. Barton,
5o13 Lafayette avenue. The boy was
playing in the street and in at
tempting to run after bali stepped
directly in front of Barton's car.
witnesses say. He was taken to. the
Methodist hospital, His injuries are
not serious, hospital attendants say.
Barton was arrested, but later re-
leased upon request OF the injured