The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-02-25

BILE and advisable at this time will be
taken. Local Yellowstone Trail back
ers are favorable toward the PROPOSE
ton and think that the city should nc,
overlook this possibility
return to Wilmot and when about
mile south Of town a Hhim seemed to
suddenly seize the driver and lie tuln-
Ell to 90 back 10 Corona. All this
time Reynolds was driving the car at
very high speed. As this point O Neil
said he became alarmed at the CON
tinued speed 81 the car, fearing that
an accident would sooner or later re-
suit. He made an excuse to get out
at this point and once out he said
unless REYNOLDS would drive at a
more moderate sueed. he, O'Neil
would walk. O'Neil said he received
no encouragement from the other
boys in the car, who evidently enjoy
ed the sport and tool: sides with Rev
nolds, whereupon O'Neil left and
walked to Wilmot secured room in
the hotel and went to bed. This was
at two o'clock in the morning. What
the rest OF the party did after that
time, or where they went he did not
know, and knew nothing of the ac-
cidcnt until the following morning at
the breakfast table.
He said there had been little lio-
uor in the party early in the evening
but not enough 10 effect the aquii-
brium OF any OF them and that in his
opinion the accident was purei, a case
Of fast driving, and that it vas com
mon knowledge 1T Gracey;'le that
Reynolds was 4 fast tho able driver.
There Is plenty OF evidence that toe
car, a sixcylinder Oakland roadster,
was being driven at a terrific speed
at the time tire accident occurred.
I mere is 4 slight bead IN the T. q! lust
east of the bridge across the Whet-
stone at this point, and the indica-
tions are that the car was going so
fast that the driver did not see the
bend, but kept his eyes far ahead as
is necessary when driving fast and in
stead OF following the bend drove
straight ahead, down the side of the
embankment until the front axle of
the car hit projection of solidly fro
zen earth left b. a washout last sum-
mer This threw the car out of bal
ance and it no DOUBT was hurled thru
the air greater part Of sixty feet to
where it was found the next morning.
Beyond the machine a few feet Law
the dead man with wicked scalp
wound and fifty feet further lay Rey-
nolds, who Mr.. Torstenson took to
the hospital. The machine, which was
practically a new one, is complete
wreck and it will not pay to repair it,
according to garage men. All the
springs were broken, the frame badly
sprung and there are only fragments
left of the top and windshield.
The time of the accident is not
known. 1t was about one-thirty when
O'Neil left the unfortunate men, and
FIVE in the morning when Althoff came
to the Sample home. 1t occurred
sometime between these hours. 1t
must have occurred around four a.
M. for the night was bitter cold, the
thermometer ranging from eight to
ten degrees below zero. and the nAen
could hardly have laid out any longer
without being severely frozen. As
it was their feet and hands are frost
bitten.
The condition Of the men at the
hospital is good and they will leave
for home in few days. Mr. Reynolds
wife and mother are here looking after
him and there are cars over every
day from Graceville with folks look
ing after them.-Wilmot Enterprise.