The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-16
DEATH INSTANT
IN COLLISION
ON PAVEMENT
Two Autos and Motor Bus
Are Mixed Up in the
Fatal Accident
PARTY GOING HOME
Had Been to Bismarck to Visit
Patient in St. Alexius
Hospital
PARTY GOING HOME

Theresa Naekel, 81, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Naekel of Valley
City, was instantly killed about
o'clock Sunday afternoon when the
car driven by her fiance Arthur
Marshall of Selfridge was struck by
another machine turning on the in
tcr-city paved highway mile east
Of Mandan, and caromed into head
on collision with an interurban bus.
Miss Naekel, whose parents are
pioneer farmers of the Valley City
district, living about six miles from
that place, came to Selfridge, N. D.,
last summer to visit sister Mrs.
John Tweten, and had remained there
in the employ of the B. L. Smestad
general store.
Sunday with Mrs. Smestad, her
four children Lloyd, Irene, Barney
and Clifford Smestad, and Arthur
Marshall, Miss Naekel came to Bis
marck to visit Mr.. Smestad who is
in a hospital recovering from SER
ious operation.
Going Home
The party was hurrying home to
Selfridge and had reached a point
about mile east of Mandan when
Arthur Nustad, Bismarck, who had
driven into the roadway leading to
the Frank McGillic farm in order to
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ing. The Nustad machine and the
Marshall car collided and caused
Marshall to lose control of his ma
chine and carom over to the left side
of the road striking the heavy inter-
urban bus head-on.
Miss Naekel sitting at the left of
the rear seat Of the. machine, Dodge
touring car, was crushed. One of
the door handles of the bus pierced
her head below the left eye and tore
off the top of her skull. Practically
every bone in her body above the
waist was broken.
Boy Escapes
Clifford Smestad, aged 6, who had
been sitting on her lap escaped with
severe bruise on the forehead. The
Dodge was rolled over twice by the
impact and the entire party pinned
beneath it, all miraculously escap-
ing death. Irene Smestad suffered
badly bruised arm and shoulder, and
Marshall a severe cut below the eye.
Miss Naekel would have reached
her 31st birthday on Wednesday,
February 10 and was engaged to be
married in June to Arthur Marshall,
who is employed on the VIM. Ostrum
ranch near Selfridge.
A brother John Naekel arrived in
Mandan this morning and will re-
turn with the body of his sister to
Valley City tonight.
Inquest Held
Coroner J. X. Kennedy was at the
scene of the accident shortly after
it occurred and subpoenaed a number
of witnesses for the inquest held at
10 o'clock this morning. t
According to Glen Ionic, driver of
the bus, Thomas Murphy, a passen-
ger who was riding with the driver
on the front seat, and a number of
other witnesses, the Nustad car driv-
en- from the side road struck the
Marshall machine. The radiator on
Nustad's machine was apparently
frozen and steaming badly which may
have clouded the vision of the driv
er.
Nustad, however, and two compan-
ions Paul DeFord and Cliff Holder,
all of Bismarck. insisted that their
car did not hit the Marshall machine,
but that Marshall driving at rapid
pace was weaving from side to side
| on the road.
Glen Ionic was the driver Of the
bus.