The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-24
IOwANS DIE
IN SUNDAY
CAR WRECKS
Luriel Hayes, Davenport
Character, Among
Victims.

The over-Sunday toll Of automo-
bile accidents in this community at
noon today totaled four dead and
seven injured in seven auto smash
ups. Only two were directly at
tributed to ''joy-riders."
The fatalities were confined to
Iowans, but Rock Islands sole
auto wreck furnished the feature"
of the crashes.
Moline showed two minor mis-
| haps, neither one of which was OF
! any consequence
Two of the Davenport fatalities
| occurred on country roads. another
was in Bettendorf, where Joy
party came to tragedy, and the
| fourth occurred this morning in.
which Luriel Hayes, Davenport's
street preacher" whose Sunday
afternoon services downtown at
| tracted great crowds of curious on
| lockers, was killed almost instant
| ly.
The dead are:
LURIEL HAYES, aged rs.
| Davenport street preacher.
! Head crushed under motor
! truck wheels.
GEORGE HAINES, aged so
| years, 426 West Fifteenth
street, Davenport, Car over
turned. infiicting internal in
juries.
JOSE ORTEZ, aged 80. Bet
tendorf Crushed in street car
wreck
JOHN HANCHER, AZ, Wash
ington, Iowa Instantly killed
when car overturned near Mus
catine Saturday afternoon
The injured:
Carl Kuehl. 16O215 Fourth
avenue, Rock Island; body
bruises. Run down by auto IN
front of New Harper last night
Harry Tuft. $50 Thirieth
street, Rock Island; minor in
juries when car crashed into
Mrs. Mary DeMink residence,
1908 Fifth avenue.
Mrs. George Haines, Daveh-
port. arm fractured, scalp
wound and minor injuries.
Drove car in accident which
cost husbands life,
E. E. Curtis, Washington,
IoVf. body injuries. CompaH-
ior< with Mr.. Hancher in Mus
came tragedy.
William d. Suggs, colOred.
minor injuries. OrteZ com
| panion.
Henri Schlassman. Armenian,
i leg broken In OrteZ car.
| Luriel Hayes, rs years old, well
known to residents of the tri-cities
as the street preacher at Second
and Main streets, Davenport, was
killed instantly at 9:15 o'clock this
morning, his head being ground or
under the wheels of a motor truch
at Third and LeClaire streets.
: The driver of the truck is Alonzc
:; Semelrath, 1911 Third avenue, Mo
lime. an employe of the Ryan Con
struction company OF Davenport
Hayes was riding his bicycle cas-
= on Third street and the truck wa!
/, northbound on LeClaire- The trucl
+ crashed into the wheel, throwing
\ the old man TO the pavement an
the wheels of the truck passed owe
h his head.
Mr.. Hayes resided at Tenth stree
and Sylvan avenue. He had hel
religious meetings at Second an
Main streets for many years, an
had quite a number of followers.
Family Cars in Wreck.
I George Haines. so years Of ag
u 426 West Fifteenth street, Dave1
. port. died at 1915 o'clock last nigt
in Mercy hospital OF injuries he Il
Cured yesterday afternoon whe
q the car in which he was ridin
overturned between the towns
MaysvilIe and PlainvieWr abo'
twenty miles northwest Of DaveI
port.
+ Mrs. Haines was driving at II
, time. She attempted to pass Tn
;, automobile driven by Willial
II Haines, a brother-in-law. when sh
: lost control Of the machine.
It Mrs. Haines escaped with frat
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