The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-23
Wife SEES
BODIES and
COLLAPSE!S
Car Drops 80 Feet After
Crashing Thru Railing to
Avoid Lumber Truck

piunglng his automobile 30 feet
from the Fremont bridge into the
yard of the Bryant Lumber Co. Al
bert Emil Kaufman. ~. proprietor
of the Post Keller Bar. First ave
and seneca st. and his i7.ycar old
daughter. Louise. were crushed to
death In the wrockage At sAt a. m.
Monday.
Kaufman died instantly. shat.
tered piece OF frame OF the autono-
bile piercing his skull The sirl lived
few minutes. but died before a city
physician arrived.
The accadcnt Was the result Of an
attempt ON kaufman's part 10 avoid
a HrsArt lumber truck. driven by
IN. ID. Longffi.ow. asi+ Whitman
ave-. which attempted TO turn into m
incline leading from the Fremont
siaduct into the Bryant yard.
Lonefellow told the police he sig
nailed his intent of turning TO the left
toward the approach OF the incline.
lie was proceeding north, white the
Kaufman machine Was running
south
0HA>UES THRU
BRIDGE RAILING
I>onRfcilow declared he saw Kauf.
man give his steering wheel a vio-
lent twist 10 the right The on
coming machine swervcd and
crashed into the iron railing border.
ing the bridge. The machine tore
thru the railing and hurtied TO the
ground 10 feet below, narrowly
missing a. r. Fors. yard superintend-
eni of the Bryant Lumber Co.
The machine landed bottom side
UP and bounced completely over.
landing on all four wheels. The ma
chine was a total wreck.
IDENTIFY HIM
BN CORRESPONDENTS
Kaufman was Immediately identi.
fled by lodge cards and correspond.
ence found in his possession. Ills
daughter was not definitely identified
until 10 n. m. when Mrs. Kaufman
appeared at the morgue.
The hcarthroken mother. who lives
at soos Bagiey ave. collapsed.
Mrs. Kaufman told Deputy Coro-
ner Frank koepfli that her husband
and daughter left home shortly after
a m. for town. Kaufman planned
to drop his daughter off AT the Ar.
cade building. where she has been
employed for the last two weeks
with the Tree Lumber Co. as a sten
ographcr. The girl was approach
ing her 18th birthday.
WORD SENT To,
son ON STEAMER
Telegraphic notification OF tho
deaths were sent TO George Kauf
man. II, son. who left Seattle last
saturday for San Francisco aboard
the steamship Governor. and TO A,
T.. Kaufman, a brother OF the dead
man. who lives In Bremerton.
w. Martinson, motorman on Bal
lard car No. SOC. who was n witness
to the accident. told the authorities
that Longfellow's truck turned In
front Of him about 10 feet. He de
ciarcd he saw two automobiles ap
preaching. One passed the truck
successfully. but the second one
kaufman's-veered 10 the right and
crashed thru the bridge railing.
No ARRESTS UNTIL
POLICE CHECK UP
Alvin Macdonald. ISL N. 103d St
the driver OF the car which cleared
the truck, said that the kaufman
machine collided with his bumper
and then crashed violently into the
side OF the truck II was MacDon
aids opis,ion that this second COLI
sion resulted in the crash.
There was difference In opinion
between witnesses as TO where tn,
blame should be placed. The pole,
declared Longfellow. the truck dri
yer, might possibly have been in tho
wrong in attempting to pass in from
of the car. No arrests will he made
II IL said. until more complete in
vestigation Is made.
Both bodies are AT the morguc.
CROWD GATHERS
ABOUT SCENE
While great crowd gathered
i about the wreck and on the viaduct
above. the police and deputy coro
ners worked unavailingly to extri
cate the two mangled bodies.
II was finally found necessary I,
turn the wreck completely over be
fore the two victims could be liftet
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