The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-10-05
P. CURTz
KILLED. ATUO
ACCIDENT

Capt. Peter Curtz, the well known
mine operator of Alpine county, was
killed in an automobile accident We'd
nesday afternoon when a machine in
which he was riding plunged over
an embankment three miles above
the Quartz Mill on the road to Silver
Mountain, and landed bottom side
up in the Carson river.
Wednesday morning Lowrin Fisher
and Will Curtz left the Cnrtz home
on a deer hunting trip. After their
departure, Mrs. Fisher discovered
they had overlooked some of their
supplies and announced her inten-
tion of loading the supplies into her
car and oyertaking her husband
above Silver Mountain, Capt P,
Curtz decided to accompany her and
about three miles above the mill,
slide of rocks was encountered
on the road. Mrs. Fisher drove very
carefully around the obstruction and
after turning back into the road, Mr..
Curtz became confused and as a re-
suit slid down over the embankment.
The car did not turn over until it
struck against the boulders at the
rivers edge. Mrs. Fisher was
thrown from the drivers seat to the
tonneau as the car turned over and
escaped with minor bruises. Mr..
Gurtz made an endeayor to jump
and had succeeded in opening the
door. As the car turned eyer he was
thrown to the ground and pinned be-
meath the car, his body being part
1y in the water.
Recovering from the shock, Mrs.
Fisher started on foot to the Curtz
home at the quartz mill, a distance
of three miles. She tainted away
several times, but continued on her
journey to get help for Mr.. Curtz.
Arriving at the Curtz home she told
Mrs. Curtz what had happened and
then collapsed.
Chas. Barrett, Grant Merrill and
others hurried to the scene of the
accident and lifted the car off Mr..
Curtz He was still alive and MAIN
tanned consciousness until he was
taken home. He told his wife not
to- send for a doctor and few
moments later, while his clothing
was being removed. he passed away.
Deceased, who was known to his
friends as Captain curtz, was one
of the pioneers of Alpine county and
took a prominent part in the early
history of the county. Coming from
New York IL 1859 BY Of Panama,
Mr.. Curtz located at Markleeyille
and Silver Mountain and engaged in
the mining industry. He made sew
eral fortunes there and, save for a
number of years spent in Washing
ton, was actively identified with min
the moment of his death. For the
last fifteen years he has been presi-
dent and manager of the CurtZ Con-
solidated Mines company. operators
of a mine eight miles above Mark
leevlle
Mr.. Curtz was formerly district
attorney of Alpine county and held
office for many years as county
supervisor Few men were as widely
known as, and well liked as Capt
Curtz. Although he was eighty
eight years of old at the time of his
death, he was as active as a man of
sixty.
Captain Curtz is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Mathilda Curtz; two
Mrs. D. W. Bates of Oak
land and Mrs Joseph Hellbeck of
New Jersey; two sons, VIII Curtz of
and Harry Curtz of
Oakland, and a sister, Mrs. Agnes
Darby, of Oakland. The family home
is located at 1897 Howe street, Oak
land.
The funeral services will be con-
Quoted from the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Vim. Gray at Markleeyille, to-
Saturday afternoon at 1870,
friends and acquaintances being in
yited. Interment will take place in
the Fredericksburg cemetery.