The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
LIFE Is CRUSHED
OUT AS HE FALLS
Harold Grow, II, Killed
When He Slips Under
Truck This Morning.
WAS HELPING FATHER
Volunteered to Help His Faith
err, Harry Crow. While His
Dad Was Lying Ill at Home.

Grow, aged IT, shortly before eleven
o'clock this morning when life was IN
stantly crushed out of the youth as
he attempted to board two ana a
half ton Nash truck, and slipping, fell
under the right rear wheel. The truck,
belonging to the boys father, Harry
Grow, who operates trucking busl-
ness, was loaded with $500 pounds OF
cement, and was just leaving a JOB
on Newell street, near Prairie avenue
when the accident happened. Paul L.
Fink, driver of the truck, was un-
aware of the incident until he heard
a youth who was riding with him In
the cab of the truck say We've run
over something" Fink stopped the
truck Immediately and few feet back
he saw the crushed body of Harold
Crow.
The youth had just left his mother
and father at his home at 708 Grand
avenue in order to join Fink on the
job. His father had been i'll and was
unable to take up his duties today.
"Ill help you, dad& Harold told him
and he was off to the place of the
accident. Just as he arrived, Fink had
started the truck, and 1T is believed
that as young Crow attempted to
step ON the running board of the cab
his foot slipped and he fell to the
pavement just in time to be struck
by the rear wheel of the car with its
weight of almost six tons passing
over his little body.
Inspector Walter White, who is IN
the employee of the city building in
spection department, was working
near the scene of the accident. He
told the police and the coroner who
were called Immediately after the &C
cident that he saw the boy run up on
the right side of the truck as if to
Jump into the cab. He slipped on the
running board, White believes, and
in his effort to grab hold of the
truck he was thrown to the pavement.
BY this time the truck was picking
up speed and it wasn't until moment
or two later that Fink declares he
knew what had happened. Fink told
the police this morning that he never
saw the boy until after he stopped
his car when he noticed the jolt. AS
soon as the police ambulance arrived
hospital in the hope that there was
still spark of life left in the body,
but when it arrived a few minutes
later, it was found that the boy was
dead. The body was then taken to the
Hansen funeral home and the parents
of the dead boy were notified.
At the home on Grand avenue, Mrs.
Grow answered the phone. Your
son Harold has just been killed in an
accident" was what she heard.
Her husband, Harry Grove, came in
to the room just as Mrs. Crow was
falling in faint. The children, Cor
don, Is; Lucille, IL; and Dorothy, 8,
were called to help the mother. Re-
storatives were applied and a short
time later the mother had sufficiently
recovered to be able to be taken to
the Hanson funeral home, where she
identified the boy as her son. She was
now more calm and when seen at the
home this afternoon, she was bearing
up heroically under the shock of the
death of her first born. Mr.. Grow,
who was still weak from his illness,
was able to talk about his boy. Many
time during the conversation he had
to clear his throat and tears welled
up in his eyes constantly as he told
how his Oldest boy had been his best
pal and companion. Mr.. Grow told of
how they had celebrated with Harold
the occasion of his seventeenth BIRTH
day on last Sunday, and how happy he
had been then.
early this morning" Mr.. Grow
said, Harold awoke and when he saw
l would be unable to go to work today
he offered to go out and help with his
share of It. He always took a great
interest in my work. 1t was on the
way to our truck on the Brennan and
Bounsall job on Newell street that he
was killed. He seemed as cheerful as
ever when he left the home. And now
now he's gone"
DR.. O. w. McCluskey examined the
and found that the weight of the
truck passing over the body had liter
ally crushed out his life. His lungs
had burst from the pressure, and there
were abrasions along the right side of
his body from the knee to the waist.
Practically every bone in his body was
broken from the twelfth yertebra of
the spinal column to the seventh rib.
Harold Crow was a student of Ke-
nosha High school and had just COM
pleted his first year there. He was
also a member Of the Park Avenue
Methodist Sunday school classes, and
was known among his many boy
friends as a real pal.
The driver of the truck, Paul Fink,
appeared as much shocked over the
accident as the parents of the boy. He
expressed in broken words his extreme
sorrow for what had happened and he
stood ready to do all he could to help
the bereaved parents. He offered him
self to the local authorities and spent
the greater part of this morning and
this afternoon at police headquarters.
No formal charges have been placed
against him and it is possible that
none will be.
Coroner 7. 7. Parker has made no
arrangements as yet for the holding
of an inquest. Funeral announce
ments will be made later.