The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-09-09
Joseph Dektor Dies from
Injuries Received when,
Auto Turns Turtle
BLINDED BY LIGHTS
Victim Pinned Beneath Steer
ing Wheel Of Car Which He
Drove into the Ditch.

Joseph Dektor, aged twenty-eight
years. an employee in the paint shop
at the Mash Motors company, was fat
ally injured Saturday evening just af-
ter eleven thirty o'clock when he was
pinned beneath the steering wheel Of
the car which he was driving and
which turned turtle near the Cooper
Road crossing Of the Geneva Road.
His companion, Alex Boris, 672 South
Pleasant street, the owner of the car
had his right arm broken, but escaped
serious injury.
Dektor, who suffered painful and se-
we're Internal injuries, was hurried to
the Kenosha hospital, in the automo-
bile of County Nurse Miss Irma Ras-
mussen, who reached the scene Of the
accident about five minutes after the
cad had turned turtle, At the hospi-
tai Dektor lived only few minutes.
A post mortem examination showed
that he had had four ribs broken and
suffered many internal injuries,
Blinded by Glaring Lights.
The accident, according to Boris,
the other occupant Of the death car,
was caused by the glaring lights Of q
car which blinded Dektor and caused
him to guide the car into the ditch.
Boris and Dektor were returning from
drive out the Geneva Road to try
out the new Nash car which Boris
purchased only few days ago. The
latter, was instructing Dektor in driv-
ing the car and the inexperience Of
Dektor may have been partly respon-
sible for the accident.
According to the story told by Bor-
Ia. they were driving along at mod
crate speed, when Dektor became
blinded by the glaring lights of car
which they met. He became confused
and to avoid striking the car turned
into the ditch and the automobile
went hurting over and caught both
the men beneath it's weight. Fortunate
ly Boris escaped serious injury but
Dektor, pinned beneath the wheel, was
crushed almost lifeless. The car was
only slightly damaged.
Hurried to Hospital.
The driver of the car with the glar-
ing lights, stopped his automobile and
returned to the scene of the accident
to help the injured men. His name
was not secured but he was not held
responsible for the accident by those
who Investigated the affair. Coroner
Parker made a thorough investigation
Of the case early Sunday morning but
has not yet filed an official report on
1t.
Miss Irma Rasmussen, the county
health nurse, returning to Kenosha,
was one of the first to reach the scene
Of the accident. She took the injured
men to the Kenosha hospital imme-
diately where everything was done
to save Debtors life, but to no avail.
Lived Here Since 1918.
Joseph Dektor, the victim of the
Gccident, was native of Poland. He
came to Kenosha in 1913 and for sew
eral years had been employed as a
painter at the Nash Motors company
where he was we'll known and popular
among the workmen. Until week ago
he had lived at 9O6 JENNIE street, but
recently had moved to a boarding
house on JENNIE street. He was a
member of the German Workingmen's
society and several other fraternal or
ders among, the people of his own
country. He is survived by his par
ents in Europe.
The funeral services for the victim
Of the accident were held this after
noon and were carried on in keeping
with the customs of his native land.
Twenty-four members of the Russian
singing society, to which the deceased
belonged, were pallbearers and carried
the remains of their dead comrade
from the Hansen chapel where the
services were held to the final resting
place in the Green Ridge cemetery.
Coroner T. T. Parker declared this
morning that further investigation in
to the details of the accident had con-
WINGED him that the death ear was go
ing at an excessive rate of speed when
it ran off the road. Ed Haubrich, who
was in a car just passed by Dektor and
Boris, told the coroner that just be-
fore the accident the men were driving
very rapidly and that this was largely
the cause for the accident rather than
binding lights.