The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-08-26
Paynesville Girl Killed


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Paynesville Girl Killed -
One girl was killed and three 9TH
ers, including her sister and two
young men, slightly injured early
Sunday evening when light coupe
went into the ditch and tipped over
on the Cold Spring-St. Cloud road.
The dead and injured:
Laura Morian, %, Paynesville, al
most instantly killed when crushed,
by, overturned car.
Clara Morian, her sister, Paynes-
vile, slightly bruised and cut.
Mike E. Willinbring, Paynesville,
driver and owner of the car, slightly
cut.
Walter Lofdahl, Minneapolis, a
passenger, slightly hurt.
3 The light coupe with it's four pas
sengers, went into the ditch a few
miles from the intersection of the
Rockville road and the St. Cloud-St.
Joseph pavement. Passing motorists
extricated the victims, and rushed
Miss Morian to the hospital, but she
died before she could be given aid
there. -..
An inquest was to be held this af-
ternoon. DR.. j. B. Dun, deputy coun-
ty coroner, stated today that a thor
ough examination would be made. He
intimated that there were too many
accidents in which fatalities result,
and that in each instance careful
examination of causes must be made.
Willinbring's coupe was coming
toward st. Cloud at about $40 p. m,
Sunday along the Rockville road
A larger closed car, owned by F. c..
Ash of Cold Spring, and driven by his:
son, Frank Ash, also of Cold Spring,
attempted to pass the coupe. Accord
ing to Ash's story, he was unable to
pass at that time, and he claims that
he avoided being crowded into the
ditch only by quick stop.
A short ways further down the
road, the car driven by Ash passed
the coupe. When he was about a
block away. Ash looked around end
saw the coupe in the ditch. He stop
ped and went back to the scene Of
the accident to see if anyone was IN
jured, and when he found the grI
badly hurt, offered to take her 20 the
st. Cloud hospital. A doctor from
Cold Spring stopped along the road
few minutes later, and said there was
no hope for Miss Morian. Her chest
was crushed in by the light coupe,
which fell over onto her as it went IN
to the ditch. It was reported also
that her neck was broken.
The coupe, according to witnesses,
was running along with its right door
open, and it is believed that when the
car hit the ditch, Miss Morian was
thrown out first, after which rhe
car fell on her. The other three o.
were hardly scratched.
The coroner's jury consisted
Of Andrew Schumacher, Gust Koch,
Mich Mertes, John Rau, Peter Bloom
er and George Thielman.
Miss MORAN, who warked in Min
neapolis, is survived by der mother,
TWO sisters and two brothers, all liv-
ng at Paynesvile.-St. Cloud Daily
Times.
St. Cloud Man Auto Victim
Ernest E. Keller, sc years old, re-
ired business man and banker of st.
Cloud, was instantly killed, and three
'thers injured, two Of them serious
y, late Thursday afternoon, in an au-
omobile smashup at St. Croix Falls,
WIS, when their car ran wild on a.
teep hill at the outskirts of the city,
nd crashed into a ditch few block
rom the heart of the business district.
The dead and injured:
Ernest Keller, Sc, retired banker,
It. Cloud, instantly killed when
brown from car at foot Of hill; died
rom fractured skull.
H. A. Warner, go, president Cd
White Bear State bank, White Bear,
9th legs fractured, one compound
racture, serious injury TO spine, and
evere cuts and bruises.
A. G. Henkemeyer, Clear Lake,
usiness man, brother-in-law of Mr.
.eller, possible skull fracture, con-
ussion of the brain, severe cuts and
ruises.
Walter Schmidt, 10, st. Cloud,
river of the car, nephew Of Mr..
eller, badly shocked, cut and bruised.
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