The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-12-30
DEATH AND INJURY IN
CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT.
One Racine Man is Killed and Two Others Are
Seriously Hurt When an Automobile
Crashed Into Telephone Pole.
CORONER Is TO MAKE RIGID PROBE
Automobile Driven by Anton SOIt0n of Racine Wrecked
and Three Men Are Thrown Through the
Top, One Meeting Fatal Injuries.

owner and driver of the car, declared
that the accident came as result of
the driver of another car failing to
observe the rules Of the road. Solton
was held at the police Office pending
the action of the coroner's jury at an
inquest held this afternoon, but the
other two men who were in the car
were permitted to return to their
homes in Racine with the understand
ing that they would be back in Ke-
nosha today to testify at the probe
into the accident.
1t was admitted that the automo-
bile was being driven at high rate
of speed when the accident took place
and police officers who Investigated
the case declared that it skidded more
than twelve hundred feet before the
fatal crash came.
One man who was driving car
along the road at the time was picked
up by the police early Christmas morn
ing but he declared that he had passed
no automobile in the road and he was
permitted to go with the understand
ing that ne would be available to the
police at any time they wanted him.
Started to Get Lunch.
Solton told the story of the acct
dent at the police office shortly after
he had been brought in. He declared
that Yomaton had been employed by
him as an emergency bartender at the
saloon in Racine and that after the
place closed up, about midnight Fri
day night, he had suggested that the
members of the party take ride. The
six men were declared to have been
sober and Solton did not show any
signs of being under the influence of
LIQUOR while he was held at the police
Office. He admitted that the car was
going at a good rate of speed. What
appeared to be a heavy car" said
Solton, twas coming up behind us and
slowed down a little and turned out
to allow the automobile to pass on the
right side of the road. The driver
of the other car evidently did not see
us and he went to the wrong side Of
the road. When / tried to turn to
get out of his way the car skidded
| and the automobile struck us tearing
off the tenders and throwing our car
I off the road"
Solton said that he did not know
that the men who had been in the rear
of his automobile had been thrown out
until later. He said that he made an
effort to get the number of the car
which had passed him and then one
of his companions called his atten-
ton to the fact that the members of
the party had been injured
Yomaton Conscious When Found.
Yomaton and the two Tillo brothers
were picked up along the road. All
of them were conscious and they were
taken at once to the hospital only a
/ few rods from the scene of the acct
dent. Yomaton had evidently struck
the telegraph pole when he was thrown
from the car and his head was cut and
bruised and there was a fracture of
! the skull. One of his legs was broken.
DR.. Christopherson attended the in
jured man at the hospital. Yoma-
ton collapsed just before five o'clock
and died.
1t was said that the two Tillo
brothers were badly cut and bruised
but they had no broken bones.
The body of Yomaton was removed
to the Hansen morgue and Coroner
Parker called jury on Christmas
morning and after the preliminary
investigation the inquest was post
poned until today.
Police Doubt Story of Driver.
Members of the police department
who went to investigate the accident,
declared that they doubted the story
of Solton. They declared that there
was no evidence that another car had
struck the Solton car and that the
nature of the damage to the car did
not indicate that the accident could
have happened in the manner stated.
The other man in the car said that
they did not know just what had hap
pened. The automobile was COM
plete wreck
Yomaton was Russian by birth
and he had made his home in Racine
for several years, living at 1909 Eng
lish street.
Friends of Yomaton who came here
Saturday morning to claim that re-
mains, said that he had wife and a
ten year old daughter living in Rus
STA and that he had been laying plans
to bring them to this country.
The remains of the man were taken
to Racine today and the funeral will
be held there tomorrow afternoon.