The Jasper news., 1920-02-19
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
TWO YOUNG JASPER MEN KILLED
ANOTHER BADLY HURT
Hands und Feet of Victims Badly
Frozen From Three Hours Ex-
posure to Cold.

in the death OF two Jasper young men
and the very serious injury Of another,
occurred Sunday evening about I
o'clock on the Oak Street Road miles
west OF Carthage, when the Ford tour
ing car occupied by Charley Lambeth,
Charley Kitterman and Steve Cordz,
ian of 20-foot> embankff1ent where
the Frisco Railroad crosses Oak Street.
Lambeth died soon after the accident
was discovered. Kit erman never re-
gained consciousness and died Monday
evening at O'clock Cordz lies at the
hospital with jaw broken, head and
face badly laseerated and other possible
injuries, but his friends are relying on
his splendid constitution to pull
him through
The young men left Jasper soon
after dinner Sunday and went to Jop-
lin to see Ed Cordz, younger brother
OF Steve Cordz. l.. A. Cordz OF Jasper,
father OF the boys, was taken sick dur
ing the afternoon and telephoned his
son to come home They teft Ed
Cordz in Joplin about G O'Clock, evi-
identity in hurry to get back and see
the elder Mr.. Cordz.
Approaching the Oak Street crossing
from the west the road is downhill TO
the railroad tracks, and on this side
the road runs over deep fill without
protection from either side and makes
a slight turn. In brief rational per-
iod Monday evening Steve Cordz said
the car lights went out us they bumped
over the railroad track, and it is there
fore presumed that in the darkness
following the eXtinguishing of the
lights the driver could not see the turn
in the road. The track OF the CIR be-
fore it went off the embankment
showed that the driver put on his
brakes and the wheels slid some &c
feet. The car hit on the rocks head
first, smashing every spoke in the
front wheels and then turned oveI
facing the west again. The young men
all hit on their heads and faces, crush
ing The skulls Of both Lambeth and
I<itterman. CordZ owned the car bu
1t is not known Who was driving wher
the accident happened.
Thry LAY on, the rocks where the,
fell some, three hours, 1t is believed
the hands and feet Of both Eittermar
and Lambeth b, ing frozen. DR.. Gen
. try AMI perhaps Others in cars passeC
over the road between and 1920, bu
dill not discover the accident. Johr
Heron, farmer living nearby wni
walking by the place about 10 or ,
little after and hearing means from IN,
Injured men discovered them. IL,
! hurried TO a nearby house and phone,
for the ambulance which took then
. nll to the hospital Mr. Cordz is abou
! % years old, Charley Kitterman abou
30, and Charley lambeth about II.
/ Mr.. Cordz IL the manager Of th
Cordz & Son store, who bought the oil
| Chandler & Son stock some six year
ago. lie 10 young man of fin
| physique and strong constitution. II
served in the Signal Corps with tn
! EiIhty-ninth Division in the Argonn
fighting and in the advance on Met,
I He was twice wounded in action. BE
sides his parents, l.. A. Cordz and wife
: he has brother Edwin, employed i
the First National Bank OF Joplin
! Mrs. +. +. Johnson OF Springfield. an
! Misses Maude and Alpha Cordz q
Jasper are sisters.
} Charley KitteTman's death bring
sorrOw 10 thousand hearts. Bi
{ hearted, genial. generous TO n fault
living here all his life. he won his wa
E to the hearts OF all by his CHEEKY goo
I. nature. IEN went to the army in tn
: summer OF 917 7. and fought will
Company c, One hundred and teDtl
r Regiment, Eighty.ninth Division, com
] ing home u sergeant. No one was NOR
! glad to get home after the war thar
Charley KitteTman. His friends wef
3 all here, except few army friends. l
; was suggested TO him by friend re
Gently that he go to a neighborinI
town and take aplace in manuiact
uring plant. NO." he said, al dom
J want to leave Jasper; my friends ar
all here" lie has been employed q
Pitts drug store ever since his returl
from France. lie had the utmost con
: fidence OF his employer and was a fav
orite with the patrons OF the store. hi