The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-14
ONE is KILLED
FOUR ARE HURT
when CAR SKIDS
Dale Stowe, Driver for Bus
Line, Is Dead.
Four n. u. Students and In
struetOrS Are Injured.
hlfT0 TIIDNEn 0uED IN lIT0u
AUTO TURNED OVER IN DITCH
ley Pavement Cause of Fatal
Accident on Sixth Ave.
Ditch Probably Saved Lives of
the Four Girls.

\ thin coating of ice on the pave
nent was responsible for the over
turning of Jewett car belonging to
the White star bus line. of Topeka.
about IL O'Clock this morning eight
miles east of Topeka on the East Sixth
avenue road. resulting in the death
of Dale Stowe, is. the driver, and the
injury Of four girls. students and stu
dent instructors at Kansas university
All We're pinned under the car
The injured girls are: Miss LeOna
Bomgat dner. daughter of Prof and
Mrs. W J Bomga rdner of Lawrence
NJ IS Mary Ewing. Miss Ann Suder
man, Miss Helen Converse. Miss Sell
ma Gootlieb, the fifth passenger in
the car, escaped without injury.
On Way 10. Attend Meeting Here.
Miss Bomgardner suffered injuries
to her spine. the seriousness of which
could not be determined this after
noon. Miss Ewing was badly cut and
bruised and suffered from shock and
exposure. Miss Suderman suffered
from inhaling gas fumes from the
exhaust pipe and Miss Converse sus-
tanned broken arm The young wo-
men were on their way TO Topeka to
attend the meeting of the Kansas
Med cal Laboratories association at
the Chamber of Commerce.
stowe was a brother of William
Stowe. manager of the White Star Bus
10 Stormont hospital in ambulances,
where they were being treated this
afternoon by Dr. Seth Hammei.
He was a son of Frank Stowe, 209
East Seventh street. and is brother
of Mrs. T. w Lee, wife of E. w. Lee,
a farmer living on route No. s. E. w.
Lee is brother of J. H. Lee, presi- |
dent of the Kansas Reserve State |
bank
Car Turned Over I'm Ditch.
Stowe was driving his car toward |
Topeka. Approaching curve about /
three miles east Of Tecumseh. he ap-
parently applied the brakes, which 4
caused the car to skid 1t is thought +
that one wheel ran onto the earth 4
shoulder of the road on the left side j
and that this was responsible for the \
accident. The car whirled completely 1
around, facing III the opposite direc- 4
ton, and turned over on its back in a 4
ditch
This ditch probably saved the lives
of one or all of the girls, as it held /
up the sides of the car. leaving a hol- 4
low underneath. Z. NJ. Boyd, 1040 4
Lafayette street, who was hauling a 1
load of crushed rock to Topeka, was \
following Immediately behind the auto /
and Witnessed the accident. With two \
other men he managed to raise one \
eide of the car and prop it up while .
the victims were taken from the /
wreckage. Dean p. f Walker, and /
Professor Dawson, of the X. L. engi- I
ueering department. came along from
Lawrence Immediately following the /
a accident and declared that Boyd did 4
excellent work in .reScuing the girls
Died on Way 10 Hospital.
Stoves chest was crushed by the
door on his side of the car. He died
in Shellebarger's ambulance on the
way TO Topeka. The car was almost
demolished. The right rear wheel was
crushed to splinters-
The fact that there We're no chains
on the wheels of the death car, nor 4
the wheels of two other White Star
cars that passed while they were max I
ing an investigation, brought severe II
criticism from county officials, who
hurried to the scene as soon as word
of the accident was received in To-
peka. The thin coating of ice on the
pavement rendered the road extreme
~ slippery, a condition in which even
non-skid tires We're of little avail. The +
the brakes were applied to a /
,ar moving even at moderate speed, II
he car would become almost un-
mana geabIe, skidding from one side of d
he road to the other.
1t is believed that Stoves car was Z
in this manner as it ap- 4
lroached a curve and that. striking /
he rough earth at the side of the
DAD. it swung around, resulting in the
lccident-
The home addresses of the girls !
'ould not be learned this afternoon,
)ut il was stated that they were all
tudents and student instructors at the
1t is believed that all live
n Lawrence.